Hot Club de Norvège
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Hot Club de Norvège is a string Jazz
quartet
from Norway
, established in 1979, by guitar
player Jon Larsen
with childhood friends Per Frydenlund and Svein Aarbostad (b/poetry). Influenced by the music of Hot Club de France, and the Belgian gypsy guitar player Django Reinhardt
they formed a quartet with violinist Ivar Brodahl (later replaced by Finn Hauge) that became part of the international renaissance of the gypsy jazz
music in the 1980s.
Hot Club de Norvege have released many CDs, DVD
s, and played together with all the gypsy stars in the genre
, from Stephane Grappelli
to Stochelo Rosenberg
and Jimmy Rosenberg
,and today they are touring world wide. They have also worked together with several classical music performers, like Nigel Kennedy
, Vertavo String Quartet
, and many symphony
orchestras in Europe
.
In 1980 they started the Django Festival in Norway, which has been arranged every year since then.
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
quartet
Quartet
In music, a quartet is a method of instrumentation , used to perform a musical composition, and consisting of four parts.-Western art music:...
from Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
, established in 1979, by guitar
Guitar
The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
player Jon Larsen
Jon Larsen
Jon Larsen is an autodidact guitarist, composer, surrealistic painter, and record producer with heavy influence on the revival of Gypsy jazz worldwide...
with childhood friends Per Frydenlund and Svein Aarbostad (b/poetry). Influenced by the music of Hot Club de France, and the Belgian gypsy guitar player Django Reinhardt
Django Reinhardt
Django Reinhardt was a pioneering virtuoso jazz guitarist and composer who invented an entirely new style of jazz guitar technique that has since become a living musical tradition within French gypsy culture...
they formed a quartet with violinist Ivar Brodahl (later replaced by Finn Hauge) that became part of the international renaissance of the gypsy jazz
Gypsy jazz
Gypsy jazz is an idiom often said to have been started by guitarist Jean "Django" Reinhardt in the 1930s. Because its origins are largely in France it is often called by the French name, "Jazz manouche," or alternatively, "manouche jazz," even in English language sources...
music in the 1980s.
Hot Club de Norvege have released many CDs, DVD
DVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
s, and played together with all the gypsy stars in the genre
Genre
Genre , Greek: genos, γένος) is the term for any category of literature or other forms of art or culture, e.g. music, and in general, any type of discourse, whether written or spoken, audial or visual, based on some set of stylistic criteria. Genres are formed by conventions that change over time...
, from Stephane Grappelli
Stéphane Grappelli
Stéphane Grappelli was a French jazz violinist who founded the Quintette du Hot Club de France with guitarist Django Reinhardt in 1934. It was one of the first all-string jazz bands....
to Stochelo Rosenberg
Stochelo Rosenberg
Stochelo Rosenberg is a Sinti-Gypsy jazz guitarist who plays in the Jazz manouche style of Django Reinhardt and leads the Rosenberg Trio.-With The Rosenberg Trio: -Solo Albums:...
and Jimmy Rosenberg
Jimmy Rosenberg
Joseph Rosenberg is a Sinto-Romani guitarist from Netherlands, known for his virtuoso playing of Gypsy jazz and other related styles....
,and today they are touring world wide. They have also worked together with several classical music performers, like Nigel Kennedy
Nigel Kennedy
Nigel Kennedy is a British born violinist and violist. He made his early career in the classical field, and he has performed and recorded most of the major violin concerti...
, Vertavo String Quartet
Vertavo String Quartet
The Vertavo String Quartet is a Norwegian string quartet, founded in Hamar in 1984. The four women forming the quartet are violinists Øyvor Volle and Berit Cardas, violist Henninge Landaas, and cellist Bjørg Lewis....
, and many symphony
Symphony
A symphony is an extended musical composition in Western classical music, scored almost always for orchestra. A symphony usually contains at least one movement or episode composed according to the sonata principle...
orchestras in Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
.
In 1980 they started the Django Festival in Norway, which has been arranged every year since then.