Tord Gustavsen (born 5 October 1970 in Oslo, Norway) is a jazz pianist. Before studying music, Gustavsen finished a degree in psychology. He studied jazz at the Conservatory of Music Trondheim and jazz theory at the University of Oslo. He has toured internationally several times has been a bandleader of a trio and a later ensemble both of which bore his name. The Tord Gustavsen Trio released three albums by April 2007; Changing Places in 2003, The Ground (2004), and Being There (2007).[1] He followed them with an album recorded by an ensemble he assembled in 2009, Restored, Returned. In addition, he has recorded as a session musician, and guested on friends' albums.
Gustavsen continues to be strongly interested in psychology and has written a lengthy thesis on the paradoxes of improvisation drawing on the dialectical psychological theory of Helm Stierlin and Anne-Lise Løvlie Schibbye.[2]
[edit] Discography
[edit] Tord Gustavsen Ensemble
[edit] Tord Gustavsen Trio
[edit] aire & angels
- aire & angels (1999)
- aire & angels II (2002)
[edit] Nymark Collective
- First meeting (2000)
- Contemporary tradition (2002)
- Bessie Smith Revisited - Live in concert (2008) - with Kristin Asbjørnsen
[edit] Silje Nergaard
- Port of call (2000)
- At first light (2001)
- Nightwatch (2003)
- The Essential + Live in Koln[DVD] (2005)
- SKRUK / Rim Banna Krybberom (2003)
- SKRUK / Torun Sævik / Cecilie Jørstad Sommerlandet (2004)
- SKRUK / Nymark Collective dype stille sterke milde (2006)
[edit] other projects
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.tordg.no/biography_full_version.htm
- ^ http://www.tordg.no/dialectics_of_improvisation.pdf
[edit] External links
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