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Jon Christensen

Jon Christensen
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Playing with Thomas Morgan and Jakob Bro, 2015
Photo Hreinn Gudlaugsson
Background information
Birth name Jon Ivar Christensen
Born (1943-03-20) 20 March 1943 (age 74)
Oslo, Norway
Genres Jazz
Occupation(s) Musician, composer
Instruments Drums

Jon Ivar Christensen (born 20 March 1943 in Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian jazz drummer. He is married to actress, minister, and theater director Ellen Horn , and is the father of singer and actress Emilie Stoesen Christensen.

In the late 1960s Christensen played alongside Jan Garbarek on several recordings by the composer George Russell. He also was a central participant in the Jazz band, Masqualero, with Arild Andersen, and they reappeared in 2003 for his 60th anniversary. He appears on many recordings on the ECM label with such artists as Keith Jarrett, Jan Garbarek, Bobo Stenson, Eberhard Weber, Ralph Towner, Barre Phillips, Arild Andersen, Enrico Rava, John Abercrombie, Michael Mantler, Miroslav Vitous, Rainer Brüninghaus, Charles Lloyd, Dino Saluzzi and Tomasz Stanko. He, along with Jan Garbarek and Palle Danielsson, was a member of the legendary Keith Jarrett "European Quartet" of the 1970s which produced five excellent jazz recordings on ECM Records.


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