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This band is the old band BOL (Tone Åse, Ståle Storløkken and Tor Haugerud) extended with “Snah”, Hans Magnus Ryan, who is the guitar player known from the epic rock band Motorpsycho, and Family, who are the two sons of Tone and Ståle, Emil (guitar), Amund (vibraphone and melotron), and Amund’s wife, Jenny Frøysa, on baritone-saxophone. The music in this project is composed by Tone, and the new addition to the band, the youngsters, have made some beautiful new arrangements on some of the tunes on the repertoire. The 7 piece band will, as a start, play two concerts in Norway, and then we will see what’ll happen. Watch out!

Photo: Juliane Schütz

Gunnar Andreas Berg is a well established composer and guitar player based in Orkanger in Trøndelag county. He formed his first trio in the late 70’s and has recorder a number of album with his own material. The last couple of years he is back on the music scene with a new trio, completed with two old buddies, Morten Huuse on keys and Tor Haugerud on drums, who share Gunnar ‘s musical point of view. The trio will record some of the knew compositions, and some old as well, in this spring, and play some gigs afterwords. The trio is playing music inspired by the -70’s expressions with some influences from the Norwegian guitarist Terje Rypdal and US Jeff Beck, among others.

Jenny Frøysa has made a band based on the history of the British painter and co-founder of the pop art movement, Pauline Boty (1938-1966). jenny Frøysa has made both lyrics and music with a fantastic bunch of young female jazz musician from Norway and drummer Tor Haugerud. The band will have a release tour in 2026 with their first album. Line-up: Jenny Frøysa – composer and baritone sax, Ingeborg Sollid – vocals, Liv-Ellen rønning – alto sax and vocals, Tuva Olsson – trumpet, Anna Ueland – piano and keys, Kertu Aer – double bass and Tor Haugerud – drums