Odin Records
Odin Records was a Norwegian jazz record label founded in 1981.
history
After almost all recordings of modern Norwegian jazz had appeared on the German ECM label in the 1970s, the Norwegian jazz label Odin was created in the 1980s after the short-lived Nordisc label in Oslo . Its first production was an album by the Thorgeir Stubø Quintet in 1981 ; by the mid-1990s over 50 albums had been created, including the album Fairy Tales by singer Radka Toneff and pianist Steve Dobrogosz (1982), which is one of the best-selling Norwegian jazz albums. The Norsk jazzforbund was involved in the label . In 1993 the label became the property of the Curling Legs label . In 2015 the rights were taken over by the independent Norwegian music publisher Grappa, which reactivated the label in the same year.
In Odin , first the music was released by artists such as Knut Riisnæs ( Flukt , 1982), Oslo 13 ( anti Therapy , 1982), Dag Arnesen , Espen Rud ( Hotel Suite , 1984), Don Cherry / Ed Blackwell , Karin Krog / John Surman ( Freestyle , 1986), Jon Eberson , Armen Donelian / Carl Morten Iversen / Audun Kleive ( Trio '87 ), Tore Brunborg , Vigleik Storaas , Bjørn Kjellemyr , Per Husby ( Notes for Nature , 1990), Jon Balke / Per Jørgensen / Audun Kleive ( On and On , 1991), Bjørn Alterhaug , Knut Riisnæs / Jon Christensen with John Scofield and Palle Danielsson (1992), Carl Morten Iversen, Jan Gunnar Hoff ( Syklus , 1992), Lee Konitz ( Steps Towards a Dream , 1993) and Knut Kristiansen ( Monk Moods , 1993).
Current orientation
Musicians such as Helge Iberg , Hanna Paulsberg , Magnus Bro, Gard Nilssen , Espen Berg and Ole Morten Vågan / Trondheim Jazz Orchestra are currently under contract with Odin . Albums by the group Masqualero and in particular by Radka Toneff have been re-released. With The Many Faces of Karin Krog (Recordings 1967-2017) , the label also presented a 6-CD box with older and new works by Karin Krog as well as the compilation Karin Krog & Georgie Fame On a Misty Night , on which the singers also played interpret two titles together.