Per Husby


Per Husby is a Norwegian jazz pianist, composer, teacher, civil engineer, and orchestra leader known for a number of recordings.

Career

Husby was raised in Oslo together with jazz enthusiasts like jazz journalist Knut Borge, and their jazz interest flourished in postwar Oslo.
He studied piano at the Music Conservatory of Oslo, and became a siv.ing. in acoustics at the Norwegian Institute of Technology, followed up with studies in jazz at Berklee in Boston. In Trondheim he worked with the local big band Bodega Band where he wrote a large amount of music on many recordings. Later, Husby played in groups led by Asmund Bjørken and Bjørn Alterhaug, and was a musical director at the local theatre Trøndelag Teater.
Husby led his own septet,, quintet, and released records with his 13-piece Per Husby Dedication Orchestra.
In Oslo he was leader of the Federation of Norwegian Jazz musicians, and co-edited the Norwegian Jazz Magazine Jazznytt. He became publicly best known through 20 years' regular engagements as a pianist/orchestra leader on Norwegian TV Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, including 11 years as a musical director for the "memory lane" TV series Da Capo.
Husby has produced and played with Hilde Louise Asbjørnsen, and plays in tenor saxophonist Bodil Niska quartet as well as with singer Laila Dalseth. He has through the years worked as an accompanist for several visiting jazz soloists such as Chet Baker, Clark Terry, Joe Henderson, Pepper Adams, Kenny Wheeler, James Moody and Karin Krog.

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