Pål Thowsen

Pål Thowsen (born 15 July 1955) is a Norwegian jazz drummer. He has released several solo albums and received two Spellemannprisen awards.

Career Thowsen was born in Lillestrøm, and started his career in the early 1970s as a musician in Arild Andersen's quartet, finding international success throughout the decade. At the same time he was a member of the jazz rock band Moose Loose. In 1973 he collaborated for the first time with jazz guitarist Jon Eberson, a collaboration that has lasted throughout his career in various groups, and has recorded about ten albums with Ketil Bjørnstad. Other musicians he has worked with include Radka Toneff, Terje Rypdal, Palle Mikkelborg, Odd Riisnæs and Dag Arnesen and a member of the Jazzpunkensemblet, the Net, Halle / Eberson / Thowsen / Kjellemyr, Ole Paus and Finn Kalvik, Sinikka Langeland and Metropolitan.

Thowsen, along with Jon Christensen, won the 1977 Spellmanprisen for jazz album for the album No Time for Time, and the 1979 Spellmanprisen for jazz album for his album Surprise.

Since 2005 Thowsen has been Associate Professor at the Norwegian Academy of Music.

Honors 1977: Spellemannprisen for No Time for Time (with Jon Christensen) 1979: Spellemannprisen for Surprise

Discography As Leader/Co-Leader No Time for Time (1976) (with Jon Christensen) Surprise (1979) Carnival (1981) Sympathy (1983) Call Me Stranger (1986) (with Tor Endresen) Life Goes On (1988) (with Tor Endresen) Collection (1992) The Eagle (1992) (with Morten Halle, Jon Eberson, Bjørn Kjellemyr) ...The Rest Is Rumors (2002)

As Sideman With Moose Loose 1974: Elgen er løs

With Arild Andersen 1975: Clouds in My Head (ECM 1059) 1977: Shimri (ECM 1082) 2010: Green in Blue Early Quartets (ECM 2143-45)

With Arild Andersen Quartet 1974: Live in Warsaw, Jamboree Jazz 74 vol. 1 (Polskie Nagrania SXL 1180) 1978: Green Shading Into Blue (ECM 1127)

With Ketil Bjørnstad 1974: Berget det blå 1977: Selena 1978: Leve Patagonia! 1980: Tidevann 1981: Engler i sneen 1990: Odyssey 2000: Early Years (Universal Music Norway 013 271-2) 2022: The Seventies (C+C Records CCD076)

With Ketil Bjørnstad & Ole Paus 1975: Lise Madsen Moses og de andre 1982: Bjørnstad/Paus/Hamsun

With Radka Toneff 1979: It Don´t Come Easy 2003: Some Time Ago - A Collection of Her Finest Moments

With Jazzpunkensemblet 1991: Live at Rockefeller 1997: Thirteen rounds (Curling Legs)

With Dag Arnesen 2004: Time Enough (Gemini Records TRCD 845) 2008: Norwegian Song 2 (Resonant Music RM20-2)

With Dag Arnesen Trio 2007: Norwegian Song (Resonant Music RM17-2) 2010: Norwegian Song 3 (Losen LOS 101-2)

With Terje Rypdal 2020: Conspiracy (ECM 2658)

With Metropolitan 1998: Metroploitan 2004: Love is Blind (Curling Legs)

With The 00 Quartet 2001: The 00 Quartet

With Sinikka Langeland 2002: Runoja

With Jon Eberson Group 2000: Dreams That Went Astray (Jazzland 013 421-2)

With Elisabeth Karsten 1999: Flux

With Terje Gewelt 1999: Hide and Seek (Resonant Music RM2-2)

With Odd Riisnæs 1998: Your Ship

With The Net 1996: The Net

With Dennis Gonzales Band of Nordic Wizards 1994: Welcome to Us

With Sigmund Groven 1988: Aria 1991: Nattønsker 1993: Siesta 1996: I godt lag - Med venner

With Inger Lise Rypdal 1983: Just for You..

With Jimmy Webb 1982: Songwriters for the Stars

With Anne Karine Strøm 1982: Casablancas døtre

With Finn Kalvik 1974: Nøkkelen ligger under matta 1975: Ride ranke 1978: Fra A til Å

With Ole Paus 1979: Kjellersanger 1982: Noen der oppe

With Sigvart Dagsland 1985: Joker

With Arild Stav 2001: Dawn