Audun Kleive is a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 drummer and percussionist.

Audun Kleive grew up in Skien

Skien

' is a city and municipality in Telemark county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Grenland. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Skien. Skien is also the administrative centre of Telemark county....

, the son of organist Kristoffer Kleive and brother of organist and composer Iver Kleive

Iver Kleive

Iver Kleive is a Norwegian composer and organist. He is known for his composing style which is a fusion of traditional church music with other musical idioms such as blues, jazz, and Norwegian folk music. He has appeared in nearly 200 recordings as a studio musician, composer and...

. He began to play drums in a rock and dance band, and then went to Oslo, where he studied at the Norwegian Academy of Music

Norwegian Academy of Music

The Norwegian Academy of Music is a music conservatory located in Oslo, Norway, in the neighbourhood of Majorstuen, Frogner. It is the largest music academy in Norway and offers the country's highest level of music education. As a university college, it offers both undergraduate and postgraduate...

. He joined the jazz-rock groups Lotus (1981–83) and Oslo 13 (1981–84), and made his recording debut with the album Anti-therapy in 1983. Described as one of the "leading lights in the Oslo Nu-jazz scene", he made his distinctive contribution to groups like Terje Rypdal

Terje Rypdal

Terje Rypdal is a Norwegian guitarist and composer. Most of his music has been released on albums of the German record label ECM. Rypdal has collaborated both as a guitarist and as a composer with other ECM artists such as Ketil Bjørnstad and David Darling...

's Chasers, Jon Balke

Jon Balke

Jon Balke is a Norwegian jazz pianist and composer currently known for his Magnetic North Orchestra.He began with classical piano, but switched to blues at 12, though today he performs within several genres. At the age of 18 he joined Arild Andersen's quartet. By the mid-1980s he worked on his own...

's Jøkleba and the Magnetic North Orchestra as well as Marilyn Mazur

Marilyn Mazur

Marilyn Mazur is a percussionist, drummer, composer, vocalist, pianist, dancer and bandleader. She was born in New York and has lived in Denmark from age six. She is of Polish and African-American descent. Since 1975, she has worked as a percussionist with various groups, among them Six Winds with...

's Future Song.

Kleive has released the albums, Bitt (1996–97), Generator X (2000) and Ohmagoddabl (2004) on Bugge Wesseltoft

Bugge Wesseltoft

Jens Christian Bugge Wesseltoft is a Norwegian jazz musician, pianist, composer and producer. He has his own label named Jazzland Records. In the 1990s, Bugge has made a transition from Nordic jazz traditions exemplified by the ECM record label to a style sometimes referred to as "future jazz" or...

's label, Jazzland.

As leader

• Anti-Therapy, 1983
• Breaking Out, 1983
• Keep Nose in Front, 1984
• Jamaha, 1986
• Accent, 1987
• Off Balance, 1987
• Slow but Sudden, 1988–1990
• On and On, 1991
• Åpent Øre, 1991
• Music for Men and Machines, 1991–1992
• Live, 1992
• Jøkleba!, 1992
• Jøkleba Live, 1994
• New Conception of Jazz, 1995–1996
• Going with the Flow, 1996
• Bitt, 1996–1997
• Generator X, 2000
• Kom Live, 2000
• Undertow, 2000
• Live in the North, 2001
• Omagoddabl, 2004

As sideman

With Mathias Eick

Mathias Eick

Mathias Eick is a Norwegian jazz musician born near the town of Eidsfoss in the county of Vestfold, Norway. He is mainly known as a musician on the jazz label ECM Records. His main instrument is the trumpet, but he also plays double bass, vibraphone, piano and guitar.In his lifetime Eick has...

• The Door
  The Door (Mathias Eick album)
  The Door is the debut album by Norwegian trumpeter, composer and multi-instrumentalist Mathias Eick recorded in 2007 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:...
  
  (ECM, 2007)

With Terje Rypdal

Terje Rypdal

Terje Rypdal is a Norwegian guitarist and composer. Most of his music has been released on albums of the German record label ECM. Rypdal has collaborated both as a guitarist and as a composer with other ECM artists such as Ketil Bjørnstad and David Darling...

• Chaser
  Chaser (album)
  Chaser is an album by guitarist Terje Rypdal with bassist Bjørn Kjellemyr and drummer Audun Kleive recorded in 1985 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Michael P...
  
  (ECM, 1985)
• Blue
  Blue (Terje Rypdal album)
  Blue is an album by guitarist Terje Rypdal and The Chasers, bassist Bjørn Kjellemyr and drummer Audun Kleive, recorded in 1985 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:...
  
  (ECM, 1986)
• The Singles Collection
  The Singles Collection (Terje Rypdal album)
  The Singles Collection is an album by guitarist Terje Rypdal recorded in 1988 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Michael P...
  
  (ECM, 1988)
• If Mountains Could Sing
  If Mountains Could Sing
  If Mountains Could Sing is an album by guitarist Terje Rypdal recorded in 1994 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:The Allmusic review awarded the album 3 stars.-Track listing:# "The Return of Per Ulv" - 5:03 # "It's in the Air" - 4:04...
  
  (ECM, 1994)

External Links

• Official Facebook Page

Sources

• Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Kleive, Audun (in German, accessed 12 April 2010)
• Mathieson, Kenny, "Dented instrument is no bar to lively performance from saxophone maestro", The Scotsman
  The Scotsman
  The Scotsman is a British newspaper, published in Edinburgh.As of August 2011 it had an audited circulation of 38,423, down from about 100,000 in the 1980s....
  
  , 1 July 2008 (accessed 12 April 2010)
• Nicholson, Stuart, "The Oslo Underground and European Nu-Jazz", JazzTimes
  JazzTimes
  JazzTimes is a magazine that dates back to Radio Free Jazz, a publication founded in 1970 by Ira Sabin when he was operating a record store in Washington, DC. It was originally a newsletter designed to update shoppers on the latest jazz releases and provide jazz radio programmers with a means of...
  
  , Vol. 31, No. 4, May 2001, p. 69 (accessed 12 April 2010)
• Nicholson, Stuart, "Europeans Cut In With a New Jazz Sound And Beat", New York Times, 3 June 2001 (accessed 12 April 2010)
• Norsk Jazzarkiv, Kleive, Audun, January 2009 (in Norwegian, accessed 12 April 2010)