GARD NILSSEN

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Gard Nilssen is a drummer, composer, producer and bandleader from Norway that lives in Oslo. He is one of the most sought after and active drummers on the european jazz scene these days, traveling 200 days a year all around the world with his own bands like Gard Nilssen Acoustic Unity, Bushman´s Revenge, sPacemonKey, Amgala Temple, Ruby and Gard Nilssen Supersonic Orchestra.

Born and raised in a musical family consisting of nothing but drummers, there were no big surprise that the instrument of choice became the drums. Gard has his background from marching bands and big bands in his hometown Skien. He studied drums with his all time hero Audun Kleive before he moved to Trondheim where he got his master degree in jazz at the NTNU University of Jazz Music (2003-2009).

His drumming is described as; Energetic, creative, musical, groovy, fearless and dynamic with a technical surplus, and besides having
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GARD NILSSEN Drumming Music album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Drumming Music
Avant-Garde Jazz 2013
GARD NILSSEN Gard  Nilssen's Acoustic Unity : Firehouse album cover 3.70 | 4 ratings
Gard Nilssen's Acoustic Unity : Firehouse
Avant-Garde Jazz 2015
GARD NILSSEN Gard Nilssen Acoustic Unity : To Whom Who Buys A Record album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Gard Nilssen Acoustic Unity : To Whom Who Buys A Record
Avant-Garde Jazz 2019
GARD NILSSEN Gard Nilssen Acoustic Unity : Elastic Wave album cover 4.00 | 1 ratings
Gard Nilssen Acoustic Unity : Elastic Wave
21st Century Modern 2022

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GARD NILSSEN Gard Nilssen´s Acoustic Unity : Live In Europe album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Gard Nilssen´s Acoustic Unity : Live In Europe
Avant-Garde Jazz 2017
GARD NILSSEN Gard Nilssen's Supersonic Orchestra : If You Listen Carefully the Music is Yours album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Gard Nilssen's Supersonic Orchestra : If You Listen Carefully the Music is Yours
Progressive Big Band 2020
GARD NILSSEN Gard Nilssen's Supersonic Orchestra : Family album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Gard Nilssen's Supersonic Orchestra : Family
Progressive Big Band 2023

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GARD NILSSEN Gard Nilssen's Acoustic Unity : Firehouse

Album · 2015 · Avant-Garde Jazz
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During the last decade, about a dozen capable drummers made their name by recording ambitious albums playing jazz with an accent on composition, complex arrangements and including elements of contemporary non-jazz music. Tyshawn Sorey and John Hollenbeck are just two to be mentioned among others. Almost intuitively, from every new jazz album recorded by a collective led by the drummer, one can expect jazz based on modern composition first of all.

Norwegian drummer Gard Nilssen Acoustic Unity's "Firehouse" is different. A traditional acoustic trio with Swede, double bassist Petter Eldh and Norwegian sax player Andre Roligheten plays free jazz, coming right from the times half a century ago.

"Firehouse" is without a doubt a drummer's album. Nilssen, who is known for his work with Puma and Cortex bands, plays dense, knotty, and often fast high-energy jazz, with a lot of tuneful sax soloing over it. At their hottest moments, Acoustic Unity recalls the other Nordic trio, The Thing. On the other hand, the sax player and the bassist both are noticeably bop-influenced, so there is a lot of music sounding very much as if it comes from the free-boppers of the late 70s or early 70s.

Same way as decades ago, music of such kind is attractive mostly because of its freedom, telepathic interplay, and some organic freshness coming from jazz roots.

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