Laila Dalseth


Laila Dalseth is a Norwegian jazz singer. She is married to the jazz saxophonist Theodor "Totti" Bergh.

Career

After an early debut in her hometown Bergen, she was active on the Oslo jazz scene, among others on releases with Kjell Karlsen, Egil Kapstad and Helge Hurum's big band. Dalseth record debuted with Metropol Jazz, participated in «Stokstad/Jensen Trad.Band», in a band with Per Borthen, as well as at Teatret Vårt in the play Havhesten. She has with her own band released Listen Here!, 1960's album One of a Kind and then Everything I Love, all on the label Gemini Records. L. D. Quintet consisting of husband Totti Bergh, Per Husby, Kåre Garnes and Tom Olstad.
Dalseth was awarded Buddyprisen 1976, in addition to three times awarded Spellemannprisen i klassen jazz, for Just Friends 1975, Glad There is You 1978 and Daydreams 1984. She was internationally recognized for the record Time for Love with Red Mitchell, Travelling Light with Al Cohn, The Judge and I with Milt Hinton, A Woman's Intuition, her own sextet featuring Philip Catherine, We remember You with Al Cohn, and Everything I Love 2004. Five of these releases were critically ranked among the «Ten best jazz albums of the year» by the American jazz magazine «Cadence».

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