Audun Kleive


Audun Kleive is a Norwegian jazz drummer. He was raised in Skien and is the son of organist Kristoffer Kleive and brother of organist Iver Kleive.

Career

Kleive began to play drums in a rock and dance band, and then went to Oslo, where he studied at the Norwegian Academy of Music. He joined the jazz-rock groups Lotus and Oslo 13, 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's Chasers, Per Jørgensen's JøKleBa and Jon Balke's Magnetic North Orchestra as well as Marilyn Mazur & Future Song.
Kleive has released the albums, Bitt,'' Generator X and Ohmagoddabl on Bugge Wesseltoft's label, Jazzland.
In 2010 he gave a concert as a duet with the jazz tenorist Petter Wettre. The concert was recorded and released on the album The Only Way to Travel 2, as a follow-up of the 2000 volume 1 album. In 2013 he was engaged for a set on the Music Festival 'Punktfestivalen' in Kristiansand, where he also collaborated on recordings for the album Crime scenes'' with Jan Bang and Erik Honoré among others.

Awards and honors

As leader

  • Music for Men and Machines
  • Audun Kleive Generator X
  • Ohmagoddabl
  • Attack
  • Release
With 1300 Oslo
  • Anti-Therapy
  • Off Balance
  • Live
  • Live in the North
With Entra
  • Live Lights
  • Ballet
  • In Concert
With Jokleba
  • Jokleba!
  • Live!
  • Jokleba! & Nu Jok?
  • Outland
With Scheen Jazzorkester
  • God Tro, Feil Frakk
  • Magne Rutle Blane
  • PoliturPassiarer
  • Tamanoar
  • ''Commuter Report''

    As sideman

With Jon Balke
  • On and On
  • Nonsentration
  • Further
  • Kyanos
With Kari Bremnes
  • Tid a Hausta Inn
  • Mitt Ville Hjerte
  • Bla Krukke
  • Losrivelse
With Arve Henriksen
  • Chiaroscuro
  • Cartography
  • The Nature of Connections
  • Composograph
With Jan Gunnar Hoff
  • Syklus
  • Moving
  • Crosslands
  • In Town
  • Magma
  • Jan Gunnar Hoff Group Featuring Mike Stern
  • Polarity
With Marilyn Mazur
  • Marilyn Mazur's Future Song
  • Small Labyrinths
  • All the Birds Reflecting + Adventurous
  • Daylight Stories
With Terje Rypdal
  • Chaser
  • Blue
  • The Singles Collection
  • Rypdal & Tekro
  • If Mountains Could Sing
  • Rypdal & Tekro II
  • The Radiosong
With others