Two new publications by Odd-Arne Jacobsen

World premiere in Tromsø Kulturhus January 22nd with the MIN Ensemble, Odd-Arne Jacobsen (guitar) and Edvard N. Debess (bass) in conjunction with the 2007 Northern Light Festival. Bass and string quintet is close to my guitar-heart. In a world where little music for such an instrumentation exists, this is my contribution. String quintet and guitar is a beautitul and underused instrumentation. For Strings Only can be played by both jazz and classical guitarists (and all other guitar players).

Oslo, desember 2007.
Odd-Arne Jacobsen.


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In conjunction with the 2004 summer exhibition Eros & Thanatos at the Munch Museum, I was allowed to be close to the art of Norway's foremost artists; Gustav Vigeland and Edvard Munch. Both Munch and Vigeland has this lonely and timeless perspective that often characterizes great art. The premiere included a string quartet from the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra and Trond Olaf Larsen on the bassoon.

Oslo, Mai 2004.
Odd-Arne Jacobsen.


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Odd-Arne Jacobsen is one of Norway«s most exciting musicians and has worked with most of the leading artists in Norway, both with theatre and music and has also presented his music internationally a.a. solo concerto in Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall, New York presenting his own works. He has toured in Mexico, the United Arab Emirates, Russia, France, Scandinavia, China, Kuwait, Scotland, USA and Japan where he worked with the pianist/composer Haruna Miyake

As a recommended jazz and temporary musician Jacobsen has frequently toured in Asia for some years. During 2000 and 2001 he played in Shanghai with the chinese Zheng player Zheng Hong-Hong (Zheng is a traditional chinese harp with a thousand year old history), in Shenzen (with Miyake Haruna) and at the Yokohama Jazz Promenade (with Miyake). Jacobsen has also had several performances in Tokyo working with a number of Japanese leading improvisational musicians.

In 2000 Odd-Arne Jacobsen had the honour of opening the Robert Normann museum together with the Swedish jazz guitarist Rune Gustavsson. Robert Normann is the greatest jazz guitar legend in Norway. In 2005 Jacobsen was a guest artist with the legendary guitarist Alexei Kuznetsov«s quartet at the Norwegian/Russian jazz festival in Moscow. He has also worked with symphony orchestras as a guitarist. For example the guitar(banjo) part in Porgy and Bess and Rhapsody In Blue (Gerswin).




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