Mathias Eick

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Mathias Eick, Oslo Jazz Festival 2016
Mathias Eick at a concert in Eidsfoss (2002)

Mathias Eick (born June 26, 1979 in Eidsfoss , Vestfold ) is a Norwegian multi-instrumentalist in the field of jazz and rock music .

Live and act

Mathias Eick comes from a musical family; his father is a jazz musician, his sister Trude Eick is a horn player and his brother Johannes Eick is a double bass player. At first he played the trumpet, which is his preferred instrument; Additional instruments were the double bass , vibraphone , piano and guitar . After attending school in Toneheim, he studied in Drammen and Trondheim , where he played in the Nu-Jazz formation Jaga Jazzist and in the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra until 2014 . With the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra he made guest appearances with Chick Corea , Jon Balke and Pat Metheny ; he also played in Jacob Young's band . In addition to his activities in the field of jazz, Eick worked with various Norwegian rock bands, including a. with Turbonegro , DumDum Boys , Motorpsycho , D'Sound and Bigbang . In 2006 he went on a European tour with Mike Stern in Jan Gunnar Hoff's band , played with Thomas Dybdahl , Manu Katché and church music with Torbjørn Dyrud ( Signs and traces , 2008).

In 2007 he worked as a trumpeter on Ulvers album Shadows of the Sun , also on the album The Sham Mirrors by the band Arcturus . He performed at the North Sea Jazz Festival in 2007 . In 2008 he presented his first album under his own name at ECM ( The Door ), in which Audun Kleive , Jon Balke, Audun Erlien and Stian Carstensen participated. In 2011 the second album ( Skala ) was released on ECM. The 2012 BMW Welt Jazz Award went to the Mathias Eick Quintet. Together with the singer Elvira Nikolaisen , he presented the album I Concentrate on You at Grappa Musikkforlag in 2013 . His album Ravensburg reached number 11 in the top 20 best-selling German jazz albums in spring 2018.

The surprising title of the album is based on family ties and puzzles as Christmas gifts from the Swabian city of Ravensburg (his grandmother came from there).

Discographic notes

under his own name
  • The Door (ECM, 2008)
  • Scale (ECM, 2011)
  • Midwest (ECM, 2015)
  • Ravensburg (ECM, 2018)
With Lars Danielsson
  • Tarantella (ACT, 2009)
With Iro Haarla
  • Northbound (ECM, 2005)
  • Vespers (ECM, 2010)
With Manu Katché
  • Playground (ECM, 2007)
With Jacob Young
  • Evening Falls (ECM, 2004)
  • Sideways (ECM, 2007)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Music Week
  2. ↑ GFK-Jazzcharts March 2018, jazzecho.de , accessed April 22, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Eick, Mathias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian multi-instrumentalist in the field of jazz and rock music
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Eidsfoss , Vestfold