Tord Gustavsen

Tord Gustavsen (born 5 October 1970) is a Norwegian jazz pianist and composer. He tours extensively worldwide, and he has been a bandleader for a trio, ensemble and quartet at various times, all bearing his name.

Early life Gustavsen was born on 5 October 1970 in Oslo and raised in rural Hurdal, Akershus. He "grew up playing church music". for a three years study of jazz (1993–96). Thereafter he became a graduate (Cand.philol.) of musicology at the University of Oslo, where he was guest teacher of jazz piano and theory (1998–2002).

Gustavsen, Simin Tander and Jarle Vespestad at Vossajazz 2016. Between 2003 and 2007 The Tord Gustavsen Trio released three albums on ECM Records. The trio was made up of Gustavsen on piano, Harald Johnsen on double bass and Jarle Vespestad on drums. The albums "contained rapt, pristine, meditative music, which resonated with the inner needs of a large, discriminating audience": combined sales exceeded 100,000. The album was awarded with Spellemannsprisen (the Norwegian Grammy). The quartet's follow-up, The Well, was released in 2012. The quartet album Extended Circle two years later "reveals a new edginess and dynamic impact that the quartet brings to Gustavsen's music."

Honors 2005: Nattjazzprisen (for the Tord Gustavsen Trio) 2009: Spellemannprisen in the class Jazz (for the Tord Gustavsen Ensemble)

Discography Albums Year Formation credited Album Peak positions NOR FRA GER 2003 Tord Gustavsen Trio Changing Places 32 2005 The Ground 1 141 2007 Being There 3 144 2009 Tord Gustavsen Ensemble Restored, Returned 15 2012 Tord Gustavsen Quartet The Well 4 194 100 2014 Extended Circle 24 103 2016 Tord Gustavsen with Simin Tander and Jarle Vespestad What Was Said 31 72 2018 Tord Gustavsen Trio The Other Side 40 58 2022 Opening 2024 Seeing

Collaborations aire & angels duo with Siri Gjære aire & angels (1999) aire & angels II (2002)

Nymark Collective First meeting (2000) Contemporary tradition (2002) Bessie Smith Revisited - Live in concert (2008) - with Kristin Asbjørnsen

Silje Nergaard Port of Call (2000) At First Light (2001) Nightwatch (2003) The Essential + Live in Koln[DVD] (2005)

SKRUK SKRUK / Rim Banna Krybberom (2003) SKRUK / Torun Sævik / Cecilie Jørstad Sommerlandet (2004) SKRUK / Nymark Collective dype stille sterke milde (2006) SKRUK / Mahsa Vahdat I vinens Speil (2010)

Carl Petter Opsahl Indigodalen (Heilo, 2001) Improvisions (Park Grammofon, 2005) Love, The Blues (Park Grammofon, 2008)

Other projects Whoopin (2001) Humans & Places (2006) with Ulrich Drechsler Quartet ID (2007) with Anna Maria Jopek Sorgen og gleden (2008) with various artists Natt i Betlehem (2008) with Solveig Slettahjell (Peaked in NOR: No. 32)