Bjørn Vidar Solli

Bjørn Vidar Solli
Solli at Herr Nielsen during the 2016 Oslo Jazzfestival.
Solli at Herr Nielsen during
the 2016 Oslo Jazzfestival.
Background information
Born (1979-08-01) 1 August 1979 (age 45)
OriginNorway
GenresJazz
Occupation(s)Musician, composer
Instrument(s)Guitar, vocals

Bjørn Vidar Solli (born 1 August 1979 in Skien, Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician (vocals and guitar) and composer.[1]

Biography

Solli started his musical career as a singer when he was 11 years old, and before he was 13 he had already performed more than 200 concerts. At the age of 18 he attended jazz studies at Music Conservatory in Trondheim (1998–2002) as the youngest student ever.[2] In 2002 he was named this year's young jazz musician of Rikskonsertene and Norsk Jazzforum, and he has consequently had a number of tours in Norway for Rikskonsertene.[1]

Together with his band Solid! (Daniel Formo, organ, Håkon Mjåset Johansen/Truls Rønning, drums) Solli has toured much of the world. In 2003 the band won first prize at the International Jazz Competition in Getxo in Spain, gave in 2005 the album Solid!, followed by Happy Accidents (2007) and Visitor (2010), along with the tenor saxophonist Seamus Blake.[1]

Solli has won several soloist awards at international jazz festivals and competitions, including the Gibson Jazz Guitar Competition at the Montreux Jazz Festival (2005), and the Monaco International Jazz Soloist Competition (2006). As a soloist he contributes on the Hot Club de Norvèges album A Stranger in Town (2004).[1]

From January 2007, he has partly lived and worked as a freelance jazz musician in New York City. During home visits, he has collaborated on the Guy Sion album Away (2012).[1]

Solli has released the albums Poinciana (Losen Records) og Ahmad Jamal Prosjekt in 2014 as a member of the Andreas Dreier Trio, together with the bass player Andreas Dreier and drummer Adam Pache. In 2016 he presented his latest albums at Sildajazz which featured the saxophonist Seamus Blake.[3] He also performed with David Arthur Skinner in the Diagonal Jazzband and David Skinner og Bjørn Vidar Solli Quartet, among others at Lancelot in Asker, Norway and Swing'n'Sweet Jazzklubb in Bergen, Norway.[4][5]

Discography

  • 2003: A Stranger in Town (Hot Club Records), with Hot Club de Norvege
  • 2005: Solid! (AIM Records), with Solid!
  • 2007: Happy Accidents (AIM Records), with Solid!
  • 2010: Visitor (Parallell Records), with Seamus Blake
  • 2012: Away (Self Produced), with Guy Sion[6]
  • 2013: Poinciana (Losen Records), with Andreas Dreier Trio[7]
  • 2013: Reviviscence : The Lyngør project volume 2 (Lyngør Records)[8]
  • 2014: Aglow: The Lyngør Project Volume 1 (Lyngør Records)[9]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Solli, Bjørn Vidar". Biography (in Norwegian). MIC.no. 16 June 2016. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
  2. ^ "Bjørn Vidar Solli" (in Norwegian). NRK. 6 October 2003. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
  3. ^ "Bjørn Vidar Solli feat. Seamus Blake" (in Norwegian). Sildajazz. 13 August 2016. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
  4. ^ "Diagonal Jazzband". Budstikka.no (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on 22 October 2017. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
  5. ^ "David Skinner og Bjørn Vidar Solli Kvartett" (in Norwegian). Swing-n-Sweet.no. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
  6. ^ Hareuveni, Eyal (22 December 2012). "Guy Sion: Away". AllAboutJazz. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
  7. ^ Baekgaard, Jakob (14 June 2016). "Andreas Dreier Trio: Poinciana". AllAboutJazz. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
  8. ^ "Bjørn Vidar Solli". Discography. Jazzbasen.no. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
  9. ^ "Bjørn Vidar Solli". Discography. Discogs.com. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
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