Jazzland Recordings is a Norwegian

Norway

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 jazz

Jazz

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 and nu-jazz label based in Oslo

Oslo

Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

, Norway

Norway

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. It was founded in 1997

1997 in music

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 by pianist 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...

 to release his "New Conception Of Jazz". It is currently a subsidiary of Universal Music Group

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 and operated as a standalone label. There are 3 divisions of the Jazzland Recording label, "Jazzland," "Grüner," and "Acoustic."

Artists

For Jazzland Recordings' main "Jazzland" label, the artist roster includes:

• Audun Kleive
  Audun Kleive
  Audun Kleive is a Norwegian drummer and percussionist.Audun Kleive grew up in Skien, the son of organist Kristoffer Kleive and brother of organist and composer Iver Kleive. 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Dhafer Youssef
  Dhafer Youssef
  Dhafer Youssef is a composer, singer and oud player. He developed an interest in jazz at an early age and clandestinely listened to it during his education at a Qur'anic school. He later left Tunisia to start a jazz career and has lived in Europe since 1990, usually in Paris or Vienna. He also...
  
  
• Eivind Aarset
  Eivind Aarset
  Eivind Aarset is a Norwegian guitarist who has worked with artists such as Ray Charles, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Ute Lemper, Ketil Bjørnstad, Mike Mainieri, Arild Andersen, Abraham Laboriel, Dhafer Youssef and Django Bates and trumpeter Nils Petter Molvaer.His style is often associated with that of nu...
  
  
• Endresen
  Tor Endresen
  Tor Lars Oskar Endresen is a Norwegian singer and composer.He has entered the national Norwegian Eurovision Song Contest numerous times, but has only won it once, and represented Norway in the international final in 1997, where he came last with nul points.Endresen was part of a popular Norwegian...
  
  /Wesseltoft Duo
• ESE
  ESE
  ESE or Ese may refer to:*East-southeast, a cardinal direction*ESE , Exceptional Student Education*Easy Serving Espresso Pod*Ethical Sensory Extrovert*European School of Economics*European Society of Endocrinology...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Live Maria Roggen
• Merriwinkle
• Sidsel Endresen
  Sidsel Endresen
  Sidsel Endresen is a Norwegian jazz singer.She was part of the Jon Eberson Group from 1981 to 1987, resulting in five CDs and two "Spellemannprisen" awards...
  
  
• Torun Eriksen
  Torun Eriksen
  Torun Eriksen is a Norwegian singer, whose musical talents first came to prominence as a music student at high school in Norway. From the age of six, she sang in various gospel choirs, and by the age of 19 had become a featured soloist. With a background steeped in soul, jazz, pop, and through her...
  
  
• Wibutee
  Wibutee
  Wibutee is a jazz band from Norway, mixing influences from electronic music and improvisation.Members are:*Håkon Kornstad...
  
  

For Jazzland Recordings' Grüner label, the artists are as follows:

• Beady Belle
  Beady Belle
  Beady Belle is a Norwegian group founded by Beate S. Lech in 1999. Their music style is jazz and acid-jazz inspired using upbeat and downbeat electronica roots, use of vocal harmonies, piano and strings. However, the music also incorporates elements of several other genres...
  
  
• gen;lon
• Jon Eberson Group
• Patrick Shaw Iversen & Raymond Pellicer
• Punkt
• The Mungolian Jet Set

For Jazzland Recordings' Acoustic label the artists are as follows:

• Atomic
• Håkon Kornstad
• Håvard Wiik
• Ingebrigt Håker Flaten
  Ingebrigt Håker Flaten
  Ingebrigt Håker Flaten is a Norwegian bassist active in the jazz and free jazz genres.-Selected Projects:*Atomic*Element*The Thing*Scorch Trio*Ingebrigt Håker Flaten Quintet-Major Collaborators:*Ken Vandermark*Joe McPhee...
  
  
• Maria Kannegaard
• Ola Kvernberg
• Samsa'Ra
• Shining
  Shining (Norwegian band)
  Shining is a Norwegian band that started out as an acoustic jazz quartet in 1999. Their sound has since become more experimental and extreme, incorporating elements from metal and progressive rock as well as 19th and 20th century classical music....