Hot Club de Norvège
Hot Club de Norvège is a string jazz quartet from Norway, established in 1979, by guitarist Jon Larsen with childhood friends Per Frydenlund and Svein Aarbostad.
Biography
They are influenced by the music of Hot Club de France, and the French gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt. They formed a quartet with violinist Ivar Brodahl, later replaced by Finn Hauge, that became part of the international renaissance of the gypsy jazz in the 1980s.Hot Club de Norvege has worked with Stéphane Grappelli, Jimmy Rosenberg, Stochelo Rosenberg, Nigel Kennedy, and the Vertavo String Quartet.
In 1980 they started the Django Festival in Norway.
Larsen retired in 2019 and was replaced with then 18-year old Ola Erlien.
Band members
CurrentPast
- Jon Larsen
- Per Frydenlund
- Ivar Brodahl
Discography
- 1981: String Swing
- 1982: String SwingOld, New, Borrowed & Blue
- 1984: Gloomy
- 1986: Swing De Paris
- 1997: Hot Shots
- 1999: Moreno, with Moreno Winterstein featuring Angelo Debarre
- 2000: Hot Club De Norvege Featuring Ola Kvernberg & Jimmy Rosenberg
- 2001: Swinging With Vertavo, Angelo & Jimmy, featuring Ulf Wakenius
- 2002: White Night Stories
- 2005: Hot Cats, with Camellia String Quartet
- 2005: White Night Live, with Ola Kvernberg and the Tromsø Symphony Orchestra
- 2005: Vertavo, featuring Ulf Wakenius and the Vertavo String Quartet
- 2008: Django Music
- 2009: ''A Portrait of Jon Larsen''