Pål Thowsen
Pål Thowsen is a Norwegian jazz drummer. He has released several solo albums and received two Spellemannprisen awards.
Career
Thowsen was born in Lillestrøm, and started his career in the early 1970s as a musician in Arild Andersen's quartet, finding international success throughout the decade. At the same time he was a member of the jazz rock band Moose Loose. In 1973 he collaborated for the first time with jazz guitarist Jon Eberson, a collaboration that has lasted throughout his career in various groups, and has recorded about ten albums with Ketil Bjørnstad. Other musicians he has worked with include Radka Toneff, Terje Rypdal, Palle Mikkelborg, Odd Riisnæs and Dag Arnesen and a member of the Jazzpunkensemblet, the Net, Halle / Eberson / Thowsen / Kjellemyr, Ole Paus and Finn Kalvik, Sinikka Langeland and Metropolitan.Thowsen, along with Jon Christensen, won the 1977 Spellmanprisen for jazz album for the album No Time for Time, and the 1979 Spellmanprisen for jazz album for his album Surprise.
Since 2005 Thowsen has been Associate Professor at the Norwegian Academy of Music.
Honors
- 1977: Spellemannprisen for No Time for Time
- 1979: Spellemannprisen for ''Surprise''
Discography
As Leader/Co-Leader
- No Time for Time
- Surprise
- Carnival
- Sympathy
- Call Me Stranger
- Life Goes On
- Collection
- The Eagle
- ''...The Rest Is Rumors''
As Sideman
- 1974: Elgen er løs
- 1975: Clouds in My Head
- 1977: Shimri
- 2010: Green in Blue Early Quartets
- 1974: Live in Warsaw, Jamboree Jazz 74 vol. 1
- 1978: Green Shading Into Blue
- 1974: Berget det blå
- 1977: Selena
- 1978: Leve Patagonia!
- 1980: Tidevann
- 1981: Engler i sneen
- 1990: Odyssey
- 2000: Early Years
- 2022: The Seventies
- 1975: Lise Madsen Moses og de andre
- 1982: Bjørnstad/Paus/Hamsun
- 1979: It Don´t Come Easy
- 2003: Some Time Ago - A Collection of Her Finest Moments
- 1991: Live at Rockefeller
- 1997: Thirteen rounds
- 2004: Time Enough
- 2008: Norwegian Song 2
- 2007: Norwegian Song
- 2010: Norwegian Song 3
- 2020: Conspiracy
- 1998: Metroploitan
- 2004: Love is Blind
- 2001: The 00 Quartet
- 2002: Runoja
2000: Dreams That Went Astray
;With Elisabeth Karsten
- 1999: Flux
- 1999: Hide and Seek
- 1998: Your Ship
- 1996: The Net
1994: Welcome to Us
;With Sigmund Groven
- 1988: Aria
- 1991: Nattønsker
- 1993: Siesta
- 1996: I godt lag - Med venner
- 1983: Just for You..
- 1982: Songwriters for the Stars
- 1982: Casablancas døtre
- 1974: Nøkkelen ligger under matta
- 1975: Ride ranke
- 1978: Fra A til Å
- 1979: Kjellersanger
- 1982: Noen der oppe
- 1985: Joker
- 2001: Dawn