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Ole Amund Gjersvik
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Ole Amund Gjersvik Ole Amund Gjersvik (born 10 December 1963 in Bergen, Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (upright bass) and composer, central on the Bergen jazz scene and known from a number of record releases. Career Gjersvik studied at the Grieg Academy in Bergen, Bergen Conservatory of Music, where he has also taught. As a performing musician, he has led his own trios, quartets and quintets as well as tango orchestra Combo Tango. Gjersvik is very versatile and has played with musicians like Kaizers Orchestra, Ketil Bjørnstad, Ole Thomsen, Kåre Thomsen, Ole Paus, Jan Eggum, Herborg Kråkevik and Sissel Kyrkjebø. He has also been widely used in theater and television connection, and has participated on many albums. Under his own name, he has published A Voice from the Past (1990) and Milonga Triste (1998) among others, and Combo Tango Plays Music by Ole Amund Gjersvik (2002). He has received numerous awards and honors, including Rolf Gammleng Award in 2000. Gjersvik is also a dancer and instructor in the Argentine tango. In 1990 he founded his own label, Acoustic Records. Honors 2000: Gammleng Award Discography Soloalbums Poems for Trio (1988), with Kåre Thomsen & Karl Seglem A Voice from the Past (1990) Appasionata Criminelle (1992) Alone in the Crowd (1993) Around the Fountain (1994) Milonga Triste (1999) Circus (2006), within Ole Amund Gjersvik Quintet Live In Bergen (2011) Dialoger (2011), with Tore Thorsen Bass Improvisat