October 24, 2007

Terje Rypdal & the Chasers


Starting out as a Hank Marvin-influenced rock guitarist with The Vanguards, Rypdal turned towards jazz in 1968 and joined Jan Garbarek's group and later George Russell's sextet and orchestra. An important step towards international attention was his participation in the free jazz festival in Baden-Baden, Germany in 1969, where he was part of a band led by Lester Bowie. During his musical studies at Oslo university and conservatory, he led the orchestra of the Norwegian version of the musical Hair. He has often recorded with ECM, both jazz-oriented material and classical compositions (some of which don't feature Rypdal's guitar).

Today, Rypdal is an important member of the Norwegian jazz community. His collaborations as guitarist and composer with other ECM artists Ketil Bjornstad and David Darling in 90s are also noteworthy. In those compositions he found a way out of jazz and classical compositions to a modern and more avant-garde unique style.


Chaser
(1985)


Terje Rypdal: guitar
Audun Kleive: drums, percussion
Bjørn Kjellemyr: basses
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Blue
(1986)


Terje Rypdal electric guitar, keyboards
Bjørn Kjellemyr electric and acoustic bass
Audun Kleive drums, percussion
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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Greatly admire and enjoy Rypdal's talent; have bought countless TR records and cds over the years, and am never disappointed. Excellent post, and a superb blog! Thank you.

Anonymous said...

Link is dead.

Anonymous said...

Please re-up 'Chaser'. RS link is down.

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