Sidsel Endresen

Sidsel Endresen
2010 in Frankfurt am Main
Background information
Born	(1952-06-19) 19 June 1952 Norway
Genres	Jazz
Occupations	Musician and composer
Instruments	Vocal
Website	Official website

Sidsel Endresen (born 19 June 1952) is a Norwegian jazz vocalist, composer and actor. She was part of the Jon Eberson Group. Since 1987, Endresen has pursued a successful solo career, resulting in 13 records under her own name including several recorded for the ECM label.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Career

Endresen was one of the most pronounced female jazz musicians in Norway in the beginning of the 21st century. She is a versatile artist, who likes to experiment with her voice in new forms and combination of jazz and other artistic expressions. Endresen studied English and Anthropology and stayed in the UK back in 1976, before settling in Oslo, where she started her artistic career. She worked as a singer, composer and songwriter with soul group «Chipahua» (1979- ), with Jon Eberson Group (1980–87). With Eberson, she made a series of highly popular and acclaimed recordings, at the intersection of jazz and rock, resulting in five CDs and two Spellemannprisen awards.^[1][5]

Honors

• 1981: Spellemannprisen in the class Jazz rock, for the album Jive Talking
• 1985: Spellemannprisen in the class Sector award, as composer/lyricist, for the album City Visions
• 1991: Gammleng-prisen Open class, for the album So I Write
• 1993: Radka Toneff Memorial Award
• 1998: Spellemannprisen Open class, together with Bugge Wesseltoft, for the album Duplex Ride
• 1998: Kongsberg Jazz Award
• 2000: Buddyprisen
• 2002: Spellemannprisen Open class, together with Bugge Wesseltoft, for the album Out here in there
• 2012: Spellemannprisen in the class Jazz, together with Stian Westerhus, for the album Didymoi Dreams

Discography

Solo albums

• 1990: So I Write (ECM Records), with Nils Petter Molvær, Django Bates & Jon Christensen
• 1994: Exile (ECM Records)
• 2000:Undertow (Jazzland Recordings)
• 2006: One (Sofa Music)
• 2008: Punkt Live Remixes vol. 1: Sidsel Endresen 7 Jon Hassel (Punkt)

With Bugge Wesseltoft

• 1994: Nightsong (ACT)
• 1998: Duplex ride (ACT)
• 2002: Out here in there (Jazzland Recordings)

With Christian Wallumrød & Helge Sten

• 2004: Merriwinkle (Jazzland Recordings)

With Stian Westerhus

• 2012: Didymoi Dreams (Rune Grammofon)

Collaborative works

Within Jon Eberson Group

• 1981: Jive Talking (CBS Records), awarded Spellemannprisen
• 1982: Polarities (CBS Records)
• 1984: City Visions (CBS Records)
• 1985: Stories (CBS Records), awarded Spellemannprisen
• 1987: Pigs and Poetry (CBS Records)

With Jon Balke

• 1998: Saturation (Jazzland Recordings/EmArcy)
• 2005: Statements (ECM Records), within Batagraf

With Nils Petter Molvaer

• 2001: Solid Ether (ECM Records)
• 2005: ER (Universal Records)

With other projects

• 1995: Kullboksrytter (Curling Legs), with «Out To Lunch» & «Norwegian String Quartet»
• 2001: Different Rivers (ECM Records), with Trygve Seim
• 2002: ...The Rest Is Rumours (Curling Legs), with Pål Thowsen, Jon Eberson & Steinar Sønk Nickelsen feat. Endresen
• 2005: Sing Me Something (Fante Records), with «Ensemble du Verre»
• 2007: Crime Scenes (Punkt), at the Punkt Festival
• 2010: And Poppies from Kandahar (Samadhi Sound), with Jan Bang
• 2011: Ha! (Rune Grammofon), with Humcrush

(See External Links, below, for in-depth discography)

References

External links

• Sidsel Endresen Official website
• Sidsel Endresen Biography by Johs Bergh on Store Norske Leksikon
• Sidsel Endresen interview at underyourskin
• Sidsel Endresen Discography at discogs.com