Sidsel Endresen

Sidsel Endresen (born 19 June 1952) is a Norwegian singer, composer, and actress. She was part of the Jon Eberson group. Since 1987, Endresen has pursued a successful solo career, recording for ECM.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Sidsel Endresen
Performing in Frankfurt am Main in 2010
Background information
Born (1952-06-19) 19 June 1952
Norway
GenresVocal
Occupation(s)Singer
Years active1980s–present
LabelsECM
Associated actsJon Eberson
Websitesidselendresen.com

Career
Sidsel Endresen
Endresen and Dan Berglund with Jazzland Night at Vossajazz 2016.

Endresen was one of the most pronounced female jazz musicians in Norway in the beginning of the 21st century. She is a versatile artist, who likes to challenge her voice with new experimental forms and combination of jazz and other artistic expressions. Her work has moved from "fusion" and "chamber jazz" in the 1980s and 1990s, to improvisational "new" musical forms in the mid 1990s until today. She has also moved from larger formats to explore solo, duo and trio formats. The last 15 years have her work mainly been concentrated on the genre of free improvisation music, both as a performer and as composer.[1]

Endresen studied English and Anthropology and stayed in the UK back in 1976, before settling in Oslo, where she started her artistic career.[2]

She worked as a singer, composer and songwriter with soul group «Chipahua» (1979- ), with Jon Eberson Group (1980–87). With Eberson, she made a series of musically strong albums at the interface between jazz and rock that was highly popular and acclaimed by a growing audience. The result of this cooperation was five celebrated CDs, awarded two times the Spellemannprisen.[1][2]

Endresen and Westerhus is followed by new experimental Norwegian musicians like Natalie Sandtorv and Torgeir Standal in The Jist duo.[7]

Honors
  • 1981: Spellemannprisen in the class Jazz rock, for the album Jive Talking
  • 1985: Spellemannprisen in the class Sector award, as composer/lyricist, for the album City Visions
  • 1991: Gammleng-prisen Open class, for the album So I Write
  • 1993: Radka Toneff Memorial Award
  • 1998: Spellemannprisen Open class, together with Bugge Wesseltoft, for the album Duplex Ride
  • 1998: Kongsberg Jazz Award
  • 2000: Buddyprisen
  • 2002: Spellemannprisen Open class, together with Bugge Wesseltoft, for the album Out here in there
  • 2012: Spellemannprisen in the class Jazz, together with Stian Westerhus, for the album Didymoi Dreams

Discography

Solo albums
With Bugge Wesseltoft
With Christian Wallumrød & Helge Sten
With Stian Westerhus
With Stian Westerhus

Collaborations
Within Jon Eberson Group
  • 1981: Jive Talking (CBS Records), awarded Spellemannprisen
  • 1982: Polarities (CBS Records)
  • 1984: City Visions (CBS Records)
  • 1985: Stories (CBS Records), awarded Spellemannprisen
  • 1987: Pigs and Poetry (CBS Records)
With Jon Balke
With Nils Petter Molvaer
  • 2001: Solid Ether (ECM Records)
  • 2005: ER (Universal Records)
With other projects
  • 1995: Kullboksrytter (Curling Legs), with «Out To Lunch» & «Norwegian String Quartet»
  • 2001: Different Rivers (ECM Records), with Trygve Seim
  • 2002: ...The Rest Is Rumours (Curling Legs), with Pål Thowsen, Jon Eberson and Steinar Sønk Nickelsen feat. Endresen
  • 2005: Sing Me Something (Fante Records), with «Ensemble du Verre»
  • 2007: Crime Scenes (Punkt), at the Punkt Festival
  • 2010: And Poppies from Kandahar (Samadhi Sound), with Jan Bang
  • 2011: Ha! (Rune Grammofon), with Humcrush
  • 2015: Debris in Lower Earth Orbit (Cusp Editions), with Twinkle³
  • 2017: Hum (Confront Recordings), with Jan Bang

(See External Links, below, for in-depth discography)

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References
  1. "Sidsel Endresen Biography". MIC.no.
  2. Bergh, Johs. "Sidsel Endresen Biography". Norsk Biografisk Leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 2012-11-14.
  3. "Biography - Jazzland Records". Archived from the original on 2007-11-14.
  4. "Biography - AllAboutJazz.com". Archived from the original on 2012-03-10.
  5. "Sidsel Endresen Biography - Kalleklev.no".
  6. "Sidsel Endresen Biography". Cosmopolite.no.
  7. Hareuveni, Eyal (2014-05-02). "The Jist: The Jist (2014)". All About Jazz. Retrieved 2015-11-07.
Awards
Preceded by
No Jazz rock award		 Recipient of the Jazz rock Spellemannprisen
1981		 Succeeded by
No Jazz rock award
Preceded by
No Open class award		 Recipient of the Open class Gammleng-prisen
1991		 Succeeded by
Anne Grete Preus
Preceded by
First award in 1993		 Recipient of the Radka Toneff Memorial Award
1993		 Succeeded by
Kirsten Bråten Berg
Preceded by
Nils Petter Molvær		 Recipient of the Open class Spellemannprisen
1998		 Succeeded by
Krøyt
Preceded by
Bugge Wesseltoft		 Recipient of the Kongsberg Jazz Award
1998		 Succeeded by
Audun Kleive
Preceded by
Totti Bergh		 Recipient of the Buddyprisen
2000		 Succeeded by
Jon Eberson
Preceded by
Anja Garbarek		 Recipient of the Open class Spellemannprisen
2002		 Succeeded by
Niko Valkeapää
Preceded by
Ola Kvernberg		 Recipient of the Jazz Spellemannprisen
2012		 Succeeded by
Karin Krog & John Surman
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