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NEW ALBUM RELEASE - hits the streets January 26, 2009.

Visit Jazzlandrec.com - listen to a full preview on the album before ordering. Digital orders (lossless flac and highres mp3s) will be available soon at buggesroom.com

US Customers:
Folk now available on Dusty Groove America.. go fetch!

This is the official website of the Norwegian violinist Ola Kvernberg and his band. The trio released their second album on Jazzland Recordings entitled Folk on January 26, 2009, followed up by an exclusive 5-show release tour in Norway. See the list of venues

Ola Kvernberg grew up in a musical family, playing the fiddle in the folk music tradition of his mom and granddad. Studying classical and folk music from age 6, he discovered jazz music at age 16 and has since then pursued his interest in improvised music.

Olas versatile band members include Swedish drummer Erik Nylander and Norwegian Steinar Raknes on bass.

Click here to listen to a preview on Folk

Trio expands - again!

Submitted by ola on Sun, 06/21/2009 - 17:49.

For the gig in Kristiansund, we're proud to announce drummer and percussionist Per Oddvar Johansen will join us for another quartet happening in Kristiansund on Friday!

Check out Per Oddvars site

"Nord" nominated Best Original Music Score @ Amanda

Submitted by ola on Wed, 06/17/2009 - 13:41.

Ola Kvernbergs movie soundtrack for "Nord" ("North") is nominated for Best Original Music Score at "Amandaprisen" - the most prestigious movie awards in Norway.

..and yes; the soundtrack will be released digitally eventually...!

See the complete list of nominees

NTNU Ambassador

Submitted by ola on Mon, 06/08/2009 - 11:41.

The Ola Kvernberg Trio was this weekend officialy appointed to Ambassador of the NTNU University of Trondheim. The Trio was awarded with NOK 50.000, and will probably spend the money on a new studio recording, to be recorded around fall2009/winter2010.


Read articles on these locations:

Official NTNU press release

Adresseavisen

Radio Revolt

National Broadcasting of Norway (NRK)

Romsdals Budstikke

Trio expands!!

Submitted by ola on Tue, 05/26/2009 - 09:03.

Ola Kvernberg Trio teamed up with drummer/percussionist extraordinaire Børge Fjordheim (Cloroform, Morten Abel, Kaada Orchestra..) for a first time exclusive quartet-happening at Nattjazz, Bergen, last friday. The audience, among them two reviewers, was thrilled about the new sound! At certain points it felt almost like being on stage with the comprehensive Bitches Brew rythm section! Will definetely try to make this happen again..

EDIT: Listen to 6 live tracks from Nattjazz HERE!

To og en iPod

Submitted by ola on Mon, 05/18/2009 - 20:26.

Ola Kvernberg will be featured in the program "To og en iPod", a series of portraits of renowned Norwegian musicians. The show will be broadcasted on NRK1 on June 8, 2009. For the impatient ones, or simply the non-Norwegians feeling it'll be over the top to buy flight tickets for Noway in June to see a TV-show, it is already available for streaming online, youtube-style, as well as a podcast.

By the way - its in Norwegian.. and some swearing does occur.

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