Terje Venaas

Terje Venaas (30 March 1947 – April 2025) was a Norwegian jazz musician (upright bass), known from dozens of recordings and a number of international collaborations.

Life and career Venaas started playing music within several local bands in the Molde area from 1962, among others within his brother's Åge Venås Orchestra (including Geir Schumann piano and Svein Jens Thorsø). He debuted on Moldejazz in 1967, and moved to Oslo where he joined the music scene Club 7 (1967–). There he started performing with musicians like Jan Garbarek, Espen Rud and Carl Magnus Neumann, and debuted on record with Terje Rypdal in 1968.

He was one of the most prominent Norwegian jazz artists,

Honors Gammleng-prisen 1982 in the class Studio Drøbak Jazzklubbs Reenskaug-pris 1984 Buddyprisen 1988

Discography 1968: Bleak House, with Terje Rypdal 1973: På Stengrunn, with Lillebjørn Nilsen 1983: The Improviser, with Chet Baker 1984: Live at Jazz Alive, with Thorgeir Stubø 1984: Daydreams, with Laila Dalseth 1984: The Improviser Chet Baker, within Per Husby Orchestra feat. Chet Baker 1986: Rhythm'A'Ning, with Thorgeir Stubø 1986: I Hear a Rhapsody, with Totti Bergh 1986: Tenor Gladness, with Totti Bergh 1986: Travelling Light, with Laila Dalseth 1988: Cherokee, with Egil Kapstad 1988: Flight, with Thorgeir Stubø 1988: Groovin' High, with Per Nyhaug Studioband 1988: My Wonderful One (Gemini Records), classics with Magni Wentzel feat. Art Farmer 1989: Confessin' the Blues, with Knut Riisnæs 1990: String Time, with Louis Stewart 1992: Musikken Inni Oss, with Sigmund Groven 1993: Toner fra Romsdal (Odin Records), with Ingeborg Hungnes 1994: Om Desse Steinane Kunne Tala, with Glenn Erik Haugland 1999: Portrait of Jimmy Rosenberg, with Jimmy Rosenberg 2001: Bjørn Johansen, with Bjørn Johansen 2001: Einar Iversen, with Einar Iversen 2001: Portrait of a Norwegian Jazz Artist: Bjarne Nerem, with Bjarne Nerem 2002: Blåmann! Blåmann!, with Jan Erik Vold feat. Chet Baker 2002: Larsen and Loutchek, with Jon Larsen 2005: Swinging, with Jimmy Rosenberg 2008: Leve Patagonia (Polygram Records), with Ketil Bjørnstad 2008: Nattønsker, Sigmund Groven 2008: The Best of Jimmy Rosenberg, with Jimmy Rosenberg 2009: Portrait of Jon Larsen, with Jon Larsen 2011: Lukk Opp Kirkens Dører: A Selection of Norwegian Christian Jazz (Psych, Funk & Folk) 1970–1980