Audun Kleive

• Name — Audun Kleive • Born — 20 October 1961 • Birthplace — Skien, Telemark, Norway • Genre — Jazz • Occupation — Musician • Instrument — Drums • Years Active — 1982–present • Associated Acts — Jøkleba, Terje Rypdal • Website — audunkleive.com

• Illustration — Kleive in 2017 Kleive began to play drums in a rock and dance band, and then went to Oslo, where he studied at the Norwegian Academy of Music. He joined the jazz-rock groups Lotus (1981–83) and Oslo 13 (1981–84), and made his recording debut with the album Anti-therapy in 1983. Described as one of the "leading lights in the Oslo Nu-jazz scene", he made his distinctive contribution to groups like Terje Rypdal's Chasers, Per Jørgensen's JøKleBa and Jon Balke's Magnetic North Orchestra as well as Marilyn Mazur & Future Song. Kleive has released the albums, Bitt (1996–97), Generator X (2000) and Ohmagoddabl (2004) on Bugge Wesseltoft's label, Jazzland. In 2010 he gave a concert as a duet with the jazz tenorist Petter Wettre. The concert was recorded and released on the album The Only Way to Travel 2 (2011), as a follow-up of the 2000 volume 1 album. In 2013 he was engaged for a set on the Music Festival 'Punktfestivalen' in Kristiansand, where he also collaborated on recordings for the album Crime scenes (2006) with Jan Bang and Erik Honoré among others.

• Music for Men and Machines (Curling Legs, 1993) • Audun Kleive Generator X (Jazzland/EmArcy, 2000) • Ohmagoddabl (Jazzland, 2004) • Attack (POLselection, 2012) • Release (POLselection, 2012) With 1300 Oslo • Anti-Therapy (Odin, 1983) • Off Balance (Odin, 1988) • Live (Curling Legs, 1993) • Live in the North (Curling Legs, 2001) With Entra • Live Lights (Timeless, 1989) • Ballet (LJ, 1992) • In Concert (LJ, 1998) With Jokleba • Jokleba! (Norsk 1993) • Live! (Curling Legs, 1996) • Jokleba! & Nu Jok? (EmArcy/Universal 2011) • Outland (ECM, 2014) With Scheen Jazzorkester • God Tro, Feil Frakk (Grong Music, 2013) • Magne Rutle Blane (Grong Music, 2015) • PoliturPassiarer (Losen, 2017) • Tamanoar (Losen, 2017) • Commuter Report (Losen, 2018)

With Jon Balke • On and On (Odin, 1991) • Nonsentration (ECM, 1992) • Further (ECM, 1994) • Kyanos (ECM, 2002) With Kari Bremnes • Tid a Hausta Inn (Pa Norsk, 1983) • Mitt Ville Hjerte (Kirkelig Kulturverksted, 1987) • Bla Krukke (Kirkelig Kulturverksted, 1989) • Losrivelse (Kirkelig Kulturverksted, 1993) With Arve Henriksen • Chiaroscuro (Rune Grammofon, 2004) • Cartography (ECM, 2008) • The Nature of Connections (Rune Grammofon, 2014) • Composograph (Arve Music 2018) With Jan Gunnar Hoff • Syklus (Odin, 1993) • Moving (Curling Legs, 1995) • Crosslands (Curling Legs, 1998) • In Town (Curling Legs, 2003) • Magma (Grappa, 2008) • Jan Gunnar Hoff Group Featuring Mike Stern (Losen, 2018) • Polarity (2L, 2018) With Marilyn Mazur • Marilyn Mazur's Future Song (veraBra, 1992) • Small Labyrinths (ECM, 1997) • All the Birds Reflecting + Adventurous (Stunt, 2002) • Daylight Stories (Stunt, 2004) With Terje Rypdal • Chaser (ECM, 1985) • Blue (ECM, 1987) • The Singles Collection (ECM, 1989) • Rypdal & Tekro (RCA, 1994) • If Mountains Could Sing (ECM, 1995) • Rypdal & Tekro II (Grappa, 1997) • The Radiosong (Beatheaven, 2002) With others • Eivind Aarset, Dream Logic (ECM, 2012) • Ab und Zu, Spark of Life (Curling Legs, 2002) • Arild Andersen, If You Look Far Enough (ECM, 1993) • Stefano Bollani, Napoli Trip (Decca, 2016) • Armen Donelian, Trio '87 (Odin, 1988) • Pierre Dorge, The Jazzpar Prize (Enja, 1992) • Jon Eberson, Stash (Odin, 1986) • Jon Eberson, Pigs and Poetry (CBS, 1987) • Mathias Eick, The Door (ECM, 2008) • Jan Eggum, Dacapo (Sigma Music 1990) • Jan Eggum, President (Grappa, 2002) • Sidsel Endresen, Undertow (Jazzland/EmArcy, 2000) • Extended Noise, Slow But Sudden Langsam, Aber Plotzlich (Odin, 1990) • Anne-Marie Giortz, Breaking Out (Hot Club, 1983) • Sigmund Groven & Arve Tellefsen, Musikken Inni Oss (Polydor, 1981) • Thomas Gustafsson, T.G. Evil Orchestra (Dragon, 1999) • Bendik Hofseth, Colours (Sonet/Verve 1997) • Per Husby, Notes for Nature (Odin, 1990) • Anders Jormin, Eight Pieces (Dragon, 1988) • Rune Klakegg & Scheen Jazzorkester, Fjon (Losen, 2016) • Olga Konkova & Carl Morten Iversen & Audun Kleive, Going with the Flow (Curling Legs, 1997) • Fredrik Lundin, People, Places, Times and Faces (Storyville, 1993) • Magnetic North Orchestra, Solarized (Emarcy, 1999) • Rita Marcotulli, Koine (Storie Di Note 2002) • Hans Mathisen, Moving Forward (Curling Legs, 2019) • Nils Petter Molvaer, Hamada Sula, (EmArcy, 2009) • Silje Nergaard, One of These Mornings & My Funny Valentine (Philips, 1984) • Lina Nyberg, Brasilien (Prophone, 2001) • Steinar Ofsdal, Vestenfor Mane (Slager, 1989) • Punkt, Crime Scenes (Punkt 2006) • Live Maria Roggen, Apokaluptein (Kirkelig Kulturverksted, 2016) • David Sylvian, Sleepwalkers (Samadhisound, 2010) • Hans Ulrik, Slow Procession (Stunt, 2009) • Bugge Wesseltoft, New Conception of Jazz (Jazzland, 1997)