Hot Club de Norvège


Hot Club de Norvège is a string jazz quartet from Norway, established in 1979, by guitarist Jon Larsen with childhood friends Per Frydenlund and Svein Aarbostad..

Biography

They are influenced by the music of Hot Club de France, and the French gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt. They formed a quartet with violinist Ivar Brodahl, later replaced by Finn Hauge, that became part of the international renaissance of the gypsy jazz in the 1980s.
Hot Club de Norvege has worked with Stéphane Grappelli, Jimmy Rosenberg, Stochelo Rosenberg, Nigel Kennedy, and the Vertavo String Quartet.
In 1980 they started the Django Festival in Norway.
Larsen retired in 2019 and was replaced with then 18-year old Ola Erlien.

Band members

Current
Past