BrÖtz no. 879 1/11 19:30
Kresten Osgood Karl Bjorå + Kanemås

Kresten Osgood

Karl Bjorå Duo

trummor och gitarr

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Kresten Osgood and Karl Bjorå are teaming up for a series of duo concerts!!!

In november 2023 its possible to hear a meeting of two of the brightest improvisational minds in Scandinavia right now. available dates are: nov 1st and 2nd and nov 4th-7th

Karl Haugland Bjorå is a Norwegian guitarist and composer living in Oslo. Bjorå has marked himself as a strong voice in the Norwegian and European scene for jazz and improvised music through his playing and composing. He plays a central part in bands such as Emmeluth’s Amoeba (Signe Emmeluth, Ole Mofjell and Christian Balvig), Megalodon Collective (Norwegian Grammy nominated 2016 & and winner of the Young Jazz Musicians 2016), Yes Deer (Anders Vestergaard and Signe Dahlgreen) and OWL (duo with Signe Emmeluth). He has also collaborated with artists such as Balazs Pandi, Linda Sharrock and Klaus Holm

Kresten Osgood is one of these people who at the same time defy and totally own categories. An extraordinary drummer and improviser who with the fullest respect to tradition, challenges it at any given moment of his creative endeavors. He has about a 100 albums to his credit, toured practically everywhere, has been performing and/or recording with legends like Roscoe Mitchell, Paul Bley, Lee Scratch Perry, William Parker, Masabumi Kikuchi, Derek Bailey, Wadada Leo Smith, Jason Moran, Michael Blake, Oliver Lake, Kurt Rosenwinkel, John Tchicai, Tim Berne, Justin Vernon, Peter Brötzman, Joshua Redman, Eugene Chadbourne, Billy Preston, Alan Silva, Brad Mehldau, Mats Gustafsson, Bennie Maupin, The National, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Sam Rivers, Henry Grimes, Dr. Yusef Lateef, Warren Smith, and many many others. But even that doesn’t really cover the full spectrum of what he has been up to in his career. A successful rapper, composer, pianist, vocalist, saxophonist and trumpeter, a true multi-instrumentalist. A very sharp kaleidoscope man, regardless of the context always realizing his fullest potential.