Ola Kvernbergs 9-piece-band project LIARBIRD won the Norwegian Grammy two weeks ago! Will be performing an exclusive amount of concerts during summer, stay tuned for dates. Visit Spellemann the full listing of nominees and winners.

Olas latest release Liarbird is now officially released.

Norways biggest newspaper Dagbladet, describes it as "dramatic, beautiful and riveting" and gives it 6/6 stars. (norwegian). Dagsavisen states "Kvernbergs triumph" and ranks it this years best norwegian jazz album.

LIARBIRD availability:

CD format, worldwide shipping:
Jazzland Recordings

CD format, norwegian shipping:
Platekompaniet.no

CD format, Scandinavia+Europe:
CDON.no (NORWAY)
CDON.se (SWEDEN)
CDON.dk (DENMARK)
CDON.fi (FINLAND)
CDON.eu (EUROPE)

Digital format:
Liarbird on iTunes
GUBEMUSIC.com - superb lossless FLAC-quality / 96khz24bit

Its finally here! After three intense days of recording at the beautiful Ocean Sound Recordings at Giske in June, countless hours of afterwork throughout the summer and finally mixing and mastering with the splendid mr Morten Stendahl at the wonderful Redroom Studios in Trondheim two weeks ago, LIARBIRD is ready to be released - album style!

Supporting the album, Concerts Norway has put together a comprehensive tour throughout Norway in September and October this fall. Check tour dates below.

Untill its available for purchase, check out the album teaser here, and join the event page at facebook if you like.

The album will be available shortly at iTunes, lossless FLAC files to be purchased at GUBEMUSIC plus hardcopies (featuring beautiful cover art by Harald Øren at Tibe-T) at places like Platekompaniet and CDON.com.

Liarbird Norwegian Tour 2011:

12.09 Olavshallen, Trondheim
13.09 Nærøy kulturhus
14.09 Sinus, Bodø
15.09 Sortland jazzweekend
17.09 Kolben kulturhus, Kolbotn
17.10 Arendal kulturhus
18.10 Bakkenteigen, Horten
19.10 Ibsenhuset, Skien
20.10 Nøtterøy kulturhus
21.10 Askim kulturhus
22.10 Bærum kulturhus
23.10 Asker kulturhus
25.10 Oppdal kulturhus
26.10 Ørsta kulturhus
27.10 Meieriet, Sogndal
28.10 Sardinen USF, Bergen
29.10 Folken, Stavanger

Ola Kvernbergs LIARBIRD will kick next years season off on Jan 27 in Oslo @ Nasjonal Jazzscene, and during fall 2011 the Liarbird debut album will be released along with an extensive Scandinavian tour. More info will be up soon, untill then - here's a clip from this years Moldejazz, featuring the Joshua Redman on soprano sax:

We've wrapped up this years trio activities with a gig in Budapest last Friday, as part of Bugge Wesseltoft's New Jazzland Community. Along with a few norwegian shows this fall, we've spent quite a few days in rehearsal during summer and fall this year, preparing for a brand new album. In January 2011 we'll start recording in the unique Ocean Sound Recordings - a studio located on the rugged west coast of Norway, accompanied only by seagulls, monstrous waves and a superb sound engineer named Eyvinn Solberg. Here's a clip from Budapest, featuring Daniel Franck on the bass. We're playing "John" from our FOLK album.

Ola is this months artist at Victoria in Oslo in October, and will be performing with a variety of artists in 4 different constellations during - starting tomorrow:

Oct 2: Ola Kvernberg feat. Hot Club de Norvege
Oct 4: Ola Kvernberg feat. Ståle Storløkken & Kenneth Kapstad
Oct 11: Ola Kvernberg feat. Kirsti Huke
Oct 18. Ola Kvernberg Trio feat. Knut Reiersrud & Helge Norbakken

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