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Artist
Marius Nordal
7+ albums
jazz pianojazzAll
about
Marius Nordal is an unusual musician of many parts. Many know him as "Butch" Nordal, the big band writer who wrote iconic pieces such as "Suncatchers" and "Liferaft Earth." Others know his work as a witty, somewhat cutting journalist who has interviewed luminaries such as Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea and Branford Marsalis. Then there is Nordal the amazing jazz pianist whose recent releases on the Origin label have delighted serious jazz fans around the world. Finally, there is his work as an educator. He taught college for 25 years and can now be seen in over 40 videos on YouTube covering a variety of jazz topics rarely touched upon by others. Marius Nordal grew up in Seattle after moving there from New Orleans at the age of seven. After several years of piano lessons he became an accomplished boogie woogie and blues player and started playing in public at age 13. "My little debut created quite a stir because rock ‘n’ roll was brand new to white America and hard-driving blues was seen as a moral issue by middle class parents…that’s hard to understand today. Back then Chuck Berry and Elvis were seen as part of a Communist plot to undermine the morals of teens!" "I still wonder if my DNA had picked up a strand of the blues in New Orleans. I was old enough when I left there to recall riding the trolley cars, smelling food in the streets and seeing musicians playing for change on the waterfront. We also took flat bottom boats out on the muddy bayous to go catfishing. It almost s
