Paal Nilssen-Love

Paal Nilssen-Love, 2016

Paal Nilssen-Love (born December 24, 1974 in Molde ) is a Norwegian drummer who has emerged in the field of free jazz and modern creative .

Live and act

Paal Nilssen-Love (with Ingebrigt Håker Flaten on bass, 2004)

Nilssen-Love first played in his father's band (also a jazz drummer) and began his musical career in a jazz club in Stavanger that was run by his parents. He studied in the Department of Jazz Studies at the University of Trondheim . He has been active in the Norwegian avant-garde jazz scene since the 1990s . In 1993 he founded his first own formation, the Quartet Element (with Gisle Johansen , Ingebrigt Håker Flaten , Håvard Wiik ), and also worked with Iain Ballamy and Chris Potter . He moved to Oslo in 1996 and was a member of the bands of Trygve Seim , Frode Gjerstad and Bugge Wesseltoft around 1998/99 . Since 2000 he has played in the trio The Thing with Mats Gustafsson and Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, which has since released several albums and runs its own label ( The Thing Records ). He was also a member of the Håkon Kornstad trio and worked on Ken Vandermark's album Crossing Division . In 2001 he was a member of the trio of the Swedish bass player Peter Janson .

In 1999 he played his first solo concert and in February 2001 he recorded his first solo album under his own name ( Sticks and Stones on the SOFA label); In November, the album I Love it When You Snore was created in a duo with Mats Gustafsson on the baritone saxophone on the Smalltown Supersound label . Another solo album followed in 2002 ( Twenty-Seven Years Later , recorded at the jazz festival in Molde), and in August he played in a duo with guitarist Anders Hana .

Nilssen-Love also played in the bands Atomic (with Fredrik Ljungkvist and Magnus Broo ), School Days , the Sten Sandell Trio, the Scorch Trio , with Raoul Björkenheim and Pat Metheny as well as various duo projects with Ken Vandermark, Joe McPhee and John Butcher , the organist Nils Henrik Asheim , Lasse Marhaug and Peter Brötzmann's Chicago Tentet .

In 2006 he was awarded the Buddyprisen , Norway's most important jazz prize.

Discographic notes

• Miró (Catalytic Sound, 2010) solo
• Paal Nllsson-Love, Ken Vandermark: Lean Left Volume 1 (2010)
• Terrie Ex / Paal Nilssen-Love: Hurgu! (PNL, 2011)
• Slugfield: Slime Zone (PNL, 2012), with Maja Ratkje and Lasse Marhaug
• Joe McPhee / Paal Nilssen-Love: Candy (PNL, 2015; 7-CD box set)
• Lasse Marhaug / Paal Nilssen-Love: Stalk (2018)

Lexical entry

• Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide of Jazz on CD . 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 .
• Richard Cook, Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. 8th edition. Penguin, London 2006, ISBN 0-14-102327-9 .
• Wolf Kampmann (Ed.), With the assistance of Ekkehard Jost : Reclams Jazzlexikon . Reclam, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-15-010528-5 .

Web links

• Paal Nilssen-Love's website
• Paal Nilssen-Love at Allmusic (English)
• Paal Nilssen-Love at Discogs (English)