Einar Iversen

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Einar "Pastor'n" Iversen (born July 27, 1930 in Mandal ; † April 3, 2019 ) was a Norwegian jazz pianist .

Life

Iversen grew up in Oslo, where he studied classical piano, played in the Katedralskolen school band and was occasionally active as a jazz musician since the late 1940s. After a year as a seaman and military service in the Tysklandsbrigaden , he became known as a professional musician under the name Pastor'n Iversen in 1952 .

He first played with Cecil Aagard and made his debut in 1953 on an album by Rowland Greenberg . He then worked for several years on a transatlantic liner and performed with Anthony Ortega (1954), the Modern Jazz Quartet and the Kenneth Fagerlund Orchestra (1955). In 1956 he played recordings with Bjarne Nerem ; In 1958 he worked on the album Swingtime in Norway with Verden Rundt and Verdensrevyen's All Stars .

From 1957 to 1960 he was a member of Åge Kjelstrup's dance orchestra at Humlen Restaurant in Oslo, from which the Mikkel Flagstad quartet emerged . He made radio recordings and gave concerts with Karin Krog and Lucky Thompson . In 1958 he received the Buddy Prize .

1960 Iversen recorded with Magni Wentzel ; in the same year he played the soundtrack for the film Line . In the new Metropol Jazz Center he performed with Dexter Gordon (1962), Coleman Hawkins (1963) and Johnny Griffin (1964).

From the early 1960s Iversen was active as a conductor and accompanist at Det Norske Teatret , the Chat Noir and the Oslo Nye Teater . In 1965 he appeared with Svend Asmussen and Stuff Smith , in 1967 he recorded the album Me and My Piano with his own trio .

In the late 1960s he played with the Thorleif Østereng Radio Big Band , in the early 1970s with the Ditlef Eckhoff Quintet , and from 1972 to 1973 with the Steen / Bergersen Quintet . His interest in ragtime resulted in the popular album The Sting in 1974 . In the following years he recorded with the Bjarne Nerem Quartet (1976) and Laila Dalseth (1978). In 1978 he toured with Povel Ramel , Monica Zetterlund and Putte Wickman .

In the mid-1980s he largely withdrew from active music life for health reasons. In 1990 he could be heard again on the album Jazz på Norsk , the following year his own CD Who Can I Turn to was released . At the end of 1992 a portrait of Iversens appeared on Norwegian Radio television. In 1996 he played on Totti Bergh's CD Warm Valley , and in 1998 Einar Iversen was released solo . The next year two more albums of his own followed ( Pastor'n & Diffen - Plenty of and Merry Christmas ); an album with guitarist Thor Erik Falch was released in 2000, as was Seaview in a trio with Tine Asmundsen and Svein Christiansen . The Oslo Jazz Circle released an album in the series Portrait of a Norwegian Jazz Artist in 2001 with recordings from 1960 to 1994.

In 1997 Iversen received the Norwegian Gammlengprisen for his musical life achievement.

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  1. ↑ Bjørn Stendahl: Einar "Pastor'n" Iversen 1930 - 2019. Jazz i Norge, April 5, 2019, accessed on April 5, 2019 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Iversen, Einar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ibersen, pastors
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian jazz pianist
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Mandal
DATE OF DEATH 3rd April 2019