Sigurd Køhn

Sigurd Eystein Køhn (6 August 1959 – 26 December 2004) was a Norwegian jazz saxophonist and composer.

Career Køhn was born in Kristiansand, Norway, and started playing the violin and the clarinet at the age of 9, and begun playing the alto saxophone when he was 14.

He moved to Oslo when he was 19 years old, and became quickly a part of the city's jazz life. In the 1980s, he played the saxophone with different fusion and soul bands ("Lava", "Son of Sam", "The Heavy Gentlemen" and more), but he returned to the jazz in the 1990s. He played with the jazz quartet The Real Thing from 1992 until his death, in addition to his own "Sigurd Køhn Quartet" from 1994 and "Køhn/Johansen Sextet" from 1999. In 1996, Køhn's first record under his own name was released, More Pepper, Please. On the album, Køhn performed the music of Art Pepper, in cooperation with, among others, Dag Arnesen and Jarle Vespestad. The album was well received.

Discography (in selection)

Solo albums 1996: More Pepper, Please (Real Records) 2005: This Place (Real Records), as S.K. Quartet

Collaborative works Within The Real Thing 1992: The Real Thing (Real Records) 1992: In New York (Real Records) 1994: A Perfect Match (Real Records), with Bohuslän Big Band 1995: Live (Real Records) 1995: Pleasure Is An Attitude (Real Records) 2000: Deluxe (Real Records) 2003: New Wrapping (Real Records)

Within "Køhn/Johansen Sextet" 1999: Woman's Got To Have It (Real Records) 2003: Angels (Real Records)