Einar Iversen
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.
literature
- Hilde Brunsvik: Einar Pastor'n Iversen. Aschehoug. Oslo 2010, ISBN 978-82-03-19810-6 . (Norwegian)
Web links
- Einar Iversen on jazzbasen.no in Norsk jazzarkiv
- Meg and with piano. ( Memento from February 23, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) hyllest til 75-årsdagen Einar Iversen on nytid.no
- Einar Iversen on dagbladet.no
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bjørn Stendahl: Einar "Pastor'n" Iversen 1930 - 2019. Jazz i Norge, April 5, 2019, accessed on April 5, 2019 (English).
personal data | |
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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 |