Per Zanussi
Per Zanussi is an Italian–Norwegian jazz musician and composer, known from several bands and releases such as with Hamid Drake, Louis Moholo, Paal Nilssen-Love, Bobby Bradford, Sabir Mateen, Franklin Kiermyer, Stephen O'Malley, Axel Dörner, Petter Wettre, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Bugge Wesseltoft, Mats Gustafsson, Kjetil Møster, Kevin Norton, Ivar Grydeland, Ernesto Rodrigues, Tetuzi Akiyama, and Håvard Wiik.
Career
Zanussi was born in Oslo and was educated on the Jazz program at Trondheim Musikkonservatorium and at Norges Musikkhøgskole. He was one of the initiators of the band Wibutee from Trondheim, with Håkon Kornstad and Wetle Holte.Since 2001 he has led the "Zanussi Five" with saxophone lineup Kjetil Møster, Rolf-Erik Nystrøm and Eirik Hegdal, and percussionist Per Oddvar Johansen, a project that has produced three albums. He also contributes to the "MZN3" with Kjetil Møster and Kjell Nordeson, the "Trespass Trio" with Martin Kuchen and Raymond Strid, the Jazzmob and the "Crimetime Orchestra".
Discography
Solo albums
With Zanussi Five- 2004: Zanussi Five
- 2007: Alborado
- 2010: Ghost Dance
- 2014: Live in Coimbra
- 2011: ''Morning Songs''
Collaborations
With Wunderkammer- 1999: Wunderkammer
- 2002: Today I Cannot Hear Music
- 2002: Household Name
- 2004: Hallmark Moments
- 2004: Playmachine
- 2005: Born to Collapse, including Anders Hana and Morten Olsen
- 2005: MZN3
- 2005: Infernal Machine
- 2006: Flashback, from Moldejazz
- 2006: Bring It On
- 2007: Live at Glenn Miller Café
- 2009: ...Was There to Illuminate the Sight Sky...
- 2012: Bruder Beda
- 2013: Human Encore, including with Joe McPhee
- 2009: Collaborations
- 2009: Bandwidth
- 2011: PhilaOslo
- 2009: Atomic Symphony, featuring Sonny Simmons and KORK
- 2010: Digging in the Dark
- 2011: Parallel Pleasures
- 2015: ''Mette Henriette''