Ole Amund Gjersvik
Ole Amund Gjersvik (born 10 December 1963 in Bergen, Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (upright bass) and composer, central on the Bergen jazz scene and known from a number of record releases.
Career
Gjersvik studied at the Grieg Academy in Bergen, Bergen Conservatory of Music, where he has also taught. As a performing musician, he has led his own trios, quartets and quintets as well as tango orchestra Combo Tango. Gjersvik is very versatile and has played with musicians like Kaizers Orchestra, Ketil Bjørnstad, Ole Thomsen, Kåre Thomsen, Ole Paus, Jan Eggum, Herborg Kråkevik and Sissel Kyrkjebø. He has also been widely used in theater and television connection, and has participated on many albums. Under his own name, he has published A Voice from the Past (1990) and Milonga Triste (1998) among others, and Combo Tango Plays Music by Ole Amund Gjersvik (2002). He has received numerous awards and honors, including Rolf Gammleng Award in 2000. Gjersvik is also a dancer and instructor in the Argentine tango. In 1990 he founded his own label, Acoustic Records.
Honors
2000: Gammleng Award
Discography
Soloalbums
Poems for Trio (1988), with Kåre Thomsen & Karl Seglem
A Voice from the Past (1990)
Appasionata Criminelle (1992)
Alone in the Crowd (1993)
Around the Fountain (1994)
Milonga Triste (1999)
Circus (2006), within Ole Amund Gjersvik Quintet
Live In Bergen (2011)
Dialoger (2011), with Tore Thorsen
Bass Improvisations (2011)
Free Approach (2011), with Nils Are Drønen & Stein Urheim
Tranquility (2011), with Tore Thorsen
Duo Improvisations (2011), with Marius Neset
Bergen (2013), with Tore Thorsen
Bass Improvistaions Vol. 2 (2013)
Latin Collection (2013)
Bass Improvistaions Vol. 3 (2013)
Conversations With Myself (2013)
With Trang Fødsel
Bare barnet (1995)
Hybel (1997)
Feber (1998)
Damp (1999)
De aller beste (2005)
Hammock (2007)
With Combo Tango
Combo Tango plays music By Ole Amund Gjersvik (2002)
Milonga del Angel (2007)
Other releases
Bymann Og Stril (1984), with Ivar Medaas & Ove Thue
Knut Gribb Tar Bergenstoget (1986), Den Nationale Scene
Ansikt Til Ansikt (1987), with Ivar Medaas & Ove Thue
Sjeldne Typar (1989), with Ivar Medaas
Stjerner i rennesteinen (1989), with Ole Paus
Soria Moria (1989), with Sissel Kyrkjebø
Lollipop (1989), with Tor Endresen & Rune Larsen
Lollipop 2 (1990), with Tor Endresen & Rune Larsen
Lollipop Jukebox (1991), with Tor Endresen & Rune Larsen
Strange Afternoon (1991), with Secret Mission
Sogn-A-Song (1991), with Karl Seglem
Medaas Gull (1992), with Ivar Medaas
Jeg kaller det vakker musikk: Hjemmevant utenfor - Ca. 40 Beste (1994), with Ole Paus
Langs Fjorden (1994), with Ivar Medaas
Rit (1994), with Karl Seglem
Jeg-En Beach Boy (1994), with Trygve Thue
In A Jazzy Mood (1994), with Clive Scott
Mi Haugtussa (1995), with Herborg Kråkevik
Rusler Rundt Grieg (1996), with Dag Arnesen
Draumespor (1996), with Kenneth Sivertsen
Lykkens narr (1997), with Anne Lorentzen
One Day in October (1999), with Kenneth Sivertsen
Design by Sound (1999), with Jan Kåre Hystad
50 Beste (2001), with Ivar Medaas
Nature Of Two (2001), with Millpond Moon
All of Me - Selected Songs by Billie Holiday (2003), with Kim Fairchild
Till Lands (2003), with Robert Vennström
Someone Cares (2003), with Rannva & Siggi
Berøringer (2004), with Andreas Friis Jørgensen
Cooly Horn (2004), with Cooly Horn
New North (2004), with Karl Seglem
It Was Near I Died (2005), with The Owens
Ocean (2005), with Tron
Dans Til Musikken (2006), tribute to Lasse Myrvold
Barna synger Pophits (2006)
Heaven Help Me (2006), with Steve Morgan
I Grevens Tid (2007)
Shadow Dancing (2008), with Steve Morgan
Røtter (2009), with Rune Larsen
Østenfor Sol" (2010), with Vindrosa
The Ride Back Home" (2010), with Helge Nyheim
Skyt meg med tre roser (2010), with Britt Synnøve Johansen
Chin Of Gold (2011), with Barbro Husdal Quartet
Trio Music (2011), with Carsten Dyngeland Trio
Biter Av Tid (2012) with Kåre Kalvenes
2012 (2012) with Nøkken)
Bakom Fjellet Det Blå (2013) with Vindrosa
Emraceable You (2013) with Hans Marius Andersen Quartet
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