Vossajazz or Vossa Jazz (established 19 December 1973) is an international jazz festival in Voss, Norway , which takes place annually during the week before Easter , and which also includes concerts throughout the year. The festival has been led by Trude Storheim since August 2007.
11-530: The first festival in 1974 was held the same weekend as the World Cup in Alpine skiing at Voss. The idea was that ski and jazz fit together. Since 1986 the festival has always taken place during the palm weekend. From 2007, the festival director has been Trude Storheim. In 1980 Vossajazz brought Rune Gustafsson and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen together for a power session in the old Voss cinema. This cooperation led to
22-627: A Sentimental Mood (1985), the latter was Sims last album. A duo performance with Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen at Vossajazz 1980, concluded on the album Just The Way You Are on the Sonet , recorded half a year after this first meeting. As a composer he was known for the soundtrack of Swedish films The Man Who Quit Smoking (1972 ), Release the Prisoners to Spring (1975), and Sunday's Children (1992). Rune Gustafsson died in 2012 in Stockholm after
33-410: A blend of different impressions. The Down Beat report gives the festival splendid reviews and opens with stating: "A warm bath of synchronicity hit the lakeside town of Voss, Norway, in the heart of the 43rd annual Vossa Jazz Festival. The blissful sense of convergence of elements came courtesy of respected and increasingly international Hardanger fiddle master Nils Okland , during his contribution to
44-769: A short illness. Gustafsson received the Albin Hagstrom Memorial Prize in 1997, The Thore Ehrling Scholarship in 2001, and Guitar People's Prize in 2004. In 2009 he was awarded the Lars Gullin Award, for having been "the trend for young guitarists in Sweden and abroad". In 2010, he was awarded the Monica Zetterlund memorial fund scholarship. With Arne Domnérus With Zoot Sims With Jan Allan and Georg Riedel Arne Domn%C3%A9rus Sven Arne Domnérus (20 December 1924 – 2 September 2008)
55-539: The Hamburg radio station. He recorded several times with Quincy Jones in Sweden and is featured throughout, "The Midnight Sun Never Sets", composed and arranged by Jones and recorded under Jones' direction by Harry Arnold 's orchestra in 1958. Domnérus' playing in his early career was typical of the cool, sophisticated, technically accomplished and lyrical style of Swedish modern jazz during the 1950s. Domnérus' health declined in his last years, and he retired from playing. He
66-650: The Norwegian drummer Jon Christensen . He played in the Arne Domnérus duo (Dialog, 1972) and his orchestras, with Jan Johansson , Georg Riedel , Cornelis Vreeswijk . Rune Gustafsson Himself Plays Gilbert O'Sullivan (1973), Killing Me Softly (1973) and Move (1977), was recorded with Egil Johansen , who was one of Gustafsson's most frequent musical partners. On a Clear Day (Sonet, SLP 2581, 1976) included Red Mitchell and drummer Ed Thigpen . He played with Zoot Sims on two recordings: The Sweetest Sounds (1979) and In
77-449: The album Just The Way You Are (1980). Vossajazz includes jazz, folk and ethnic music. There is also Badnajazz for the children, Ekstremjazz (not part of Ekstremsportveko , the extreme sports week also held in Voss), Eldrejazz and UNGjaJAZZja! . In addition, the festival annually commissions a piece of music from Norwegian composers. The 2016 edition of Vossajazz was a musical event with
88-538: The long history of the festival’s keynote commissioned work (or “Tingingsverket”)." Since 1988 the festival has honoured prominent freelance jazz musicians from Hordaland with an award, including: Several recordings made at the festival have been issued on Vossajazz's own label, Vossa Jazz Records. Rune Gustafsson Rune Urban Gustafsson (25 August 1933 – 15 June 2012) was a Swedish jazz guitarist and composer. He performed with Arne Domnérus , Jan Johansson , and Zoot Sims among others. Rune Gustafsson
99-630: The middle 1960s he was a featured soloist in the Swedish Radio Big Band. He wrote for film and television and recorded with Lars Gullin and Bengt Hallberg . With Bengt-Arne Wallin , Rolf Ericson , and Åke Persson (the latter two were former members of Duke Ellington 's Orchestra), he participated in the Jazz Workshops organised for the Ruhrfest in Recklinghausen by Hans Gertberg from
110-475: Was a Swedish jazz saxophonist and clarinetist. He began to play the clarinet at the age of 11 but had taken up the saxophone by the time he left school and then turned professional. In 1949 he performed at the Paris Jazz Festival and with Charlie Parker when Parker was on tour in Sweden in 1950. A few years later he recorded with Clifford Brown , Art Farmer , and James Moody . From the middle 1950s to
121-515: Was born in 1933 in Gothenburg . He moved to Stockholm in the 1950s to work with Putte Wickman (Swedisk Jazz Kings, EP, 1957) and Arne Domnérus Radio band and Radio Jazz Group. His first issued recordings were Young Guitar (Metronome, MLP 15 072, 1961) with Arne Domnérus, Jan Johansson, Jimmy Woode , Bjarne Nerem , Börje Fredriksson and Jan Allan . Rune at the Top was released in 1969 and included
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