Kjetil Møster

Kjetil Traavik Møster (born 17 June 1976 in Bergen, Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (tenor and soprano saxophones, clarinet and bass clarinet) and composer, known from bands like The Core, Ultralyd, Brat, Zanussi 5, and performance with Chick Corea at Moldejazz 2000, later released on CD. He has also made his mark with experimental performances at the interface between electronic based fri-rock and jazz.^[1]

Career

Møster played the accordion since he was 6 years old, cornet, bass, saxophone the following years, and played the guitar in the rock band «Riper i lakken» since 13. After a year at Sund folkehøgskole, he attended the Jazz program at Trondheim Musikkonservatorium (1995–98), where he established the trio «Möster», with Steinar Raknes and Tor Haugerud. He later joined the bassist Per Zanussi with «Zanussi 5». Møster also partisipated in Espen Aalberg's «The Core» on several occasions and records, as well as the bands «Gibrish» and «Brat» .^[1]

Møster performed at the Kongsberg Jazz Festival 2005 (solo), with Trondheim Jazz Orchestra on US tour in 2006, where he was awarded This year's Jazz talent. Performance on Nattjazz 2006 was awarded Nattjazz prisen. He leads his own band, K. M. Sextet, performing at the North Sea Jazz Festival and the Moldejazz 2006. The Sextet consists of members from the band MZN3 with Møster, Zanussi and Kjell Nordeson (drums), in addition to the trio Morten J. Olsen (drums), Ingebrigt Håker Flaten (bass) and Anders Hana (guitar).

Together with Maja S.K. Ratkje, Paal Nilssen-Love and Lasse Marhaug, he started the festival «All Ears» in 2002.^[1]

Honors

• Exxon Prize at Moldejazz 2003, with The Core
• This year's international jazz talent 2005, in New York
• Nattjazzprisen 2006
• Vossajazzprisen 2009

Discography

With «Zanussi 5»

• Zanussi 5 (2004)
• Alborado (2006)

With «The Core»

• Vison (2004)
• Blue sky (2005)
• The Indian Core (2006), with Indian musicians
• Office Essentials (2007)
• Meditations on Coltrane (2007), with «Bergen Big Band»
• Golonka love» (live recordings from Poland, 2007)
• Party (recordings from «Nasjonal Jazzscene», 2010)

With «Brat»

• Please don’t shoot (2004)

With Eirik Hegdal and Trondheim Jazz Orchestra

• We are? (2004)

With Trinity

• parkling (2004)
• Breaking the mold (2009)

With Crimetime Orchestra

• Life is a beautiful monster (2004)
• Atomic Symphony (2009)

With MZN3, a trio consisting of Per Zanussi (bass) and Kjell Nordeson (percussion)

• MZN3 (2005)

With Guro Skumsnes Moe

• It pictures (released in 2011)

References

External links

• Kjetil Møster Official Website