With Fredrik Ljungkvist Live at Glenn Miller Café in Stockholm Bjørn Marius Hegge Trio

• 1 The Beginning / 4th Die Mänschen (Live) 17:06
• 2 Preludium (Live) 06:14
• 3 Abacus (Live) 11:58
• 4 Gud Josef (Live) 10:34
• Total Runtime 45:52

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Bandleader and composer Bjørn Marius Hegge is a bassist and key part of the new brood of Norwegian jazz musicians. Apart from leading his quintet Hegge, he is part of the Kjetil Mulelid Trio (Rune Grammofon) and has released a number of albums on the Particular Recordings Collective label (including solo, trio and group projects). He won the Norwegian Grammy (Spellemannsprisen) for his band Hegge's debut recording "Vi Är Ledsna Men Du Får Inte Längre Vara Barn" in 2017. He has a bachelor degree in performing arts from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

Bjørn Marius Hegge Trio is a piano-trio consisting of three young, fearless Norwegian improvisers. Hans Hulbækmo (Atomic, Skadedyr, Moskus), Oscar Grönberg (Team Hegdal, Trondheim Jazz Orchestra) and Bjørn Marius Hegge working together with the spontaneous making of music in the moment, the sound is edgy and laborious, and invites the listener to a focused atmosphere where both audience and musicians is part of an attentive process. Their debut album “Assosiasjoner” was released on Particular Recordings Collective.

Oscar Grönberg, piano
Hans Hulbækmo, drums
Bjørn Marius Hegge, double bass

Bjørn Marius
was born 11.09.1987 and raised in a small town outside of Trondheim, Norway called Elvran. Exposed to music from an early age, he began playing the guitar at age seven. He started taking lessons playing both the accordion and the guitar at the municipal school of performing arts in Stjørdal. He later attended Ole Vig Videregående Skole, specialising in music. Then he went out into the world to find himself, starting with one year at Birka Folkehøyskole (Folk College) in Østersund, Sweden. Then followed a year at Sund Folkehøyskole in Inderøy, Norway. In 2009 he moved to Trondheim, switching his main instrument from guitar to double bass. He now lives in Trondheim, working as a professional bass player and composer.

In 2012 he started his studies at the jazz department at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Here he studied under mentors Eirik Hegdal, Michael Duch and Erling Aksdal, among others. This resulted in a Bachelor Degree, giving his exam concert in 2016. He works with a lot of different ensembles both large and small, and his playing and writing consists of expanding boundaries of genres and other musical conventions. He favour writing particularly for the musicians involved, composing music tailor suited for each individual project.

In 2016 he formed the quintet Hegge, this group is made up by some of the finest Scandinavian jazz muscians active today, Jonas Kullhammar, Martin Myhre Olsen, Vigleik Storaas and Håkon Mjåset Johansen, together they explore Bjørn Marius compositions with curiosity and openness. And they recived a Norwegian grammy award(Spellemannsprisen) For best jazz album (Vi är ledsna men du får inte längre vara barn) In 2017. Bjørn Marius has been playing concerts all over Europe and has toured Norway several times with both own and others projects. He compliments in a variety of groups, underneath is a list of selected collaborations

Since 2016 he is a part of the Trondheim based record label collective "Particular Recordings Collective", together with Eirik Hegdal, Tor Haugerud, Daniel Formo, Oscar Grönberg, Else Bøe, Sigrid Stang, Marianne Baudouin Lie, Klaus Ellerhusen Holm, Matilda Rolfsson.

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