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Terje Gewelt with Frode Nymo

Terje Gewelt (* 8. June 1960 in Oslo ) is a Norwegian jazz - and fusion - bassist .

Live and act

Terje Gewelt grew up in Larvik , initially played guitar and switched to bass guitar at the age of 14, and to acoustic bass at 17. From 1979 to 1981 he studied with Arild Andersen and played with local jazz and fusion bands. In 1981, Gewelt moved to the United States and studied bass at the Bass Institute of Technology in Los Angeles ; he studied bass guitar with Jeff Berlin and acoustic bass with Bob Magnuson . In 1982 he returned to Oslo and worked with many musicians on the Norwegian jazz scene. In 1983, Gewelt went back to the USA to study at Berklee College of Music in Boston . a. at Dave Holland . There he played u. a. with saxophonists Tommy Smith and Donny McCaslin as well as with Christian Jacob , Danilo Pérez , Ahmad Mansour and Laszlo Gardonyi ; he also took private lessons with Jaco Pastorius in New York City . With Tommy Smith he co-founded the acoustic quartet Forward Motion . In 1984 Hep produced their first album under their own name, Forward Motion: The Berklee Tapes (with Tommy Smith, Lazlo Gardonyi and Ian Froman ).

In 1988 Terje Gewelt worked with Santana drummers Michael Shrieve , Mark Isham , Andy Summers and David Torn (stiletto). In 1989, Gewelt returned to Norway and worked a. a. with Knut Værnes ; In 1995 he became a member of Billy Cobham's band and took part in their albums Nordic and Off Color ; he also played on Jacob Young's album This Is You . In 1997 he worked with the Russian pianist Misha Alperin ( North Story, First Impression on ECM).

In 1998 he founded the record label Resonant Music , where he released seven albums under his own name. He has also worked on recordings by Dag Arnesen , Egil Kapstad ( Storytellers , 1998), Roy Powell , Odd Riisnæs ( Another Version , 1993), Knut Riisnæs ( Touching , 2001), Espen Rud , Frode Thingnæs , Petter Wettre , Staffan William-Olsson and Ahmad Mansour with. From 2002 three duo albums with the American pianist Christian Jacob, Duality , Interplay and Hope as well as two albums with the Dag Amesen Trio were created.

Discographic notes

  • Hide and Seek (Resonant Music, 1999)
  • Duality (Resonant Music, 2002) Duo with Christian Jacob
  • Interplay (Resonant Music, 2003) Duo with Christian Jacob
  • Small World (Resonant Music, 2004) with Bjørn Klakegg , Robertinho Silva , Jon Christensen , Carlos Negreiros, Kenneth Ekornes
  • Hope (Resonant Music, 2005) Duo with Christian Jacob
  • If Time Stood Still (Resonant Music, 2007)
  • Norwegian Song (Resonant Music 2007) with Dag Arnesen
  • Norwegian Song 2 (Resonant Music 2008) with Dag Arnesen
  • Oslo (Resonant Music 2009) with Enrico Pieranunzi and Anders Kjellberg

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SURNAME World, Terje
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian jazz and fusion bass player
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Oslo