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Torgrim Sollid

b. 1942

Jazz trumpeter

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Born 1942. Torgrim Sollid is a Norwegian composer and jazz musician.

Torgrim Sollid (born 17 June 1942) is a Norwegian self-taught traditional folk musician, composer and jazz musician (trumpet, flugelhorn, and drums), known for combining folk music with jazz, and for playing in the Jan Garbarek Quartet and Warne Marsh Sextet.

Career After growing up in Stor-Elvdal Municipality Sollid was drummer in "Veitvet Big Band" and "Jan Garbarek Quartet" (1962–63), prior to training in music therapy in Mo i Rana, where he also played with Guttorm Guttormsen Band. In Molde he played in Erling Aksdal Sextet, and the two then gave out the "mountain jazz" project Østerdalsmusikk (1974) with music by Ole Mørk Sandvik. In the same vein he started the big band Søyr (1976–) in Trondheim, which he has led since to a number of album releases. Sollid played on two albums Sax of a kind (1983) and For the Time Being (1987) by Warne Marsh, with Sidsel Endresen and others in "Blue Moon" he performed at the "Oslo Jazzfestival" in 1995, and participated on the Thomas Winther Andersen album Line Up (1998).

Collaborations Within Søyr 1977: Søyr (MAI) 1983: Cierny Peter (Odin) 1987: Vectors (Hot Club) 1994: Bussene lengter hjem (Curling Legs) 1997: Med kjøtt og kjærlighet (Curling Legs) with the poetry of Niels Fredrik Dahl and Torgeir Rebolledo Pedersen 2001: Alene hjemme (Curling Legs)

Within Warne Marsh Sextet 1983: Sax of a Kind (Hot Club) with John Pål Inderberg, Terje Bjørklund, Bjørn Kjellemyr, Carl Haakon Waadeland 1987: For the Time Being (Hot Club) with John Pål Inderberg, Erling Aksdal, Bjørn Alterhaug, Ole Jacob Hansen

With Thomas Winther Andersen Line Up 1998: Line Up (NorCD) 2004: Out from a Cool Storage (NorCD)

With MESON 2022: MESON (Live in Studio) (Roselyd) with Ingeborg Gravem Sollid, Elin Rosseland, Andreas Wildhagen, Thor Bjøn Neby

Crazy Moon 2017: West Side Story (Curling Legs)

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Who is Torgrim Sollid?

Jazz trumpeter

When was Torgrim Sollid born?

Torgrim Sollid was born on 17 June 1942 in Eidskog Municipality.

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Torgrim Sollid is a composer and jazz musician.

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Torgrim Sollid is Norwegian.

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· Wikipedia: Torgrim Sollid

· Wikidata: Q7825729

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