Ivar Grydeland


Ivar Grydeland is a Norwegian jazz musician and composer raised in Kongsberg.

Career

Grydeland was born in Trondheim, Norway, and studied jazz guitar at the Norwegian Academy of Music. He started his jazz career in the Big Band 'Ung Musikk' in 1995. He collaborates within the band Huntsville together with Tonny Kluften and Ingar Zach, within 'Dans les arbres' together with Christian Wallumrød, Xavier Charles and Ingar Zach, and plays with Hanne Hukkelberg. Grydeland plays acoustic guitar, electric guitar and banjo with a mixture of finger picking technique, various types of bows, metal, propellers and electronic devices, he teaches at Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, and runs the record label Sofa.
In 2000 Grydeland participated together with Tonny Kluften on a project with Tony Oxley resulting in the album Triangular Screen. On the first album in his own name These Six, he collaborated in a trio with Tonny Kluften and Paul Lovens. With Philipp Wachsmann, Charlotte Hug and Ingar Zach he released the album Wazahugy, and with Jaap Blonk and Ingar Zach Improvisors. In 2006 the release Szc Zcz Cze Zec Eci Cin within the trio Ivar Grydeland/Thomas Lehn/Ingar Zach followed, and Improvisors together with Jaap Blonk and Ingar Zach in 2004. Grydeland collaborated with Leonel Kaplan on the album Portraits 2004, and he released the critically acclaimed solo album Bathymetric Modes in 2012.

Discography

Solo albums

;Solo project
;Trio including with Tonny Kluften & Paul Lovens
;As Ivar Grydeland/Thomas Lehn/Ingar Zach trio
;Duo with Ingar Zach
;With Tony Oxley Project 1
;Within No Spaghetti Edition
;With Philipp Wachsmann, Charlotte Hug & Ingar Zach
;Within HISS including with Tonny Kluften, Pat Thomas & Ingar Zach
;With Jaap Blonk & Ingar Zach
;Within Arm
;Duo with Yumiko Tanaka
;Within Huntsville trio including with Tonny Kluften & Ingar Zach
;As Marc Pichelin/Xavier Charles/Ivar Grydeland
;Within Dans Les Arbres including with Xavier Charles, Christian Wallumrød & Ingar Zach
;Within Ballrogg trio including with Klaus Ellerhusen Holm & Roger Arntzen
;With Leonel Kaplan
;Within Last Heat
;Finland including with Morten Qvenild, Jo Berger Myhre, Pål Hausken