Bodil Niska
Bodil Aileen Niska is a Norwegian jazz saxophonist known for her recordings of jazz standards.
Career
Raised in Hammerfest Municipality, she was taught music by her father, the accordion player Aksel Niska, and studied under the guidance of Kjell Bartholdsen, and ran the jazz club "Montenegro". After moving southward in Norway in 1990, Niska collaborated within the trio "Girl Talk" from 1992, the other members being Tine Asmundsen and Elizabeth Walker. They recorded the album Talkin' Jazz. She formed the Bodil Niska Quartet, including Per Husby, Stig Hvalryg and Roger [Johansen |Roger Johansen], at the Oslo Jazz Festival in 2005. She is also known for her collaboration with Pete Brown Trio, including Scott Hamilton and Harry Allen.Niska has established the "Bare Jazz" store in Oslo, and a record label by the same name. For her work she received "Sildajazzprisen" in 2005 and the Oslo Jazz Festival award "Ella-prisen" in 2009.
Honors
- 2005:"Sildajazzprisen" at the Jazz Festival in Haugesund
- 2009: "Nordprofil-prisen
- 2009: "Ella-prisen at Oslo Jazzfestival
Discography
Solo albums
- 2000: First Song, including Egil Kapstad, Bjørn Alterhaug and Pelle Hultén
- 2004: Blue, with Kapstad, Alterhaug, Hulten & Paul Wagnberg
- 2008: Night Time, with Claes Crona Trio & Staffan William-Olsson
Collaborative works
- 1993: Noe Som Har Hendt, with "Dronning Mauds Land»
- 1996: Talkin' Jazz, within the trio "Girl Talk»
- 2006: Sakte Sanger, with Anne Lande & Per Husby