Ivar Grydeland & Henry Kaiser

Ivar Grydeland belongs to a young generation of Norwegian jazzmen that quickly took Scandinavia and Europe by storm starting in 2000. A co-founder of the avant-garde jazz/free improv label Sofa, this guitarist has performed in one of Tony Oxley's trios and is a core member of No Spaghetti Edition. Grydeland was born in 1976. From 1996 to 2000 he studied at the music academy in his hometown Trondheim, an institution also frequented in those years by Paal Nilssen-Love, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, Ingar Zach, and a number of other young players eager to take Norwegian avant-garde j...