Frode Nymo
Frode Nymo (born 27 November 1975), is a Norwegian jazz musician (alto Saxophone), and older brother of the tenor sax. Player Atle Nymo.
Frode Nymo
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- Name
- Frode Nymo
- Born
- 27 November 1975
- Birthplace
- Egersund, Rogaland
- Occupation
- Musician, composer
- Nationality
- Norway
- Fields
- jazz
- Education
- Jazzlinja
- Honours
- Spellemannprisen
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• Name — Frode Nymo • Born — 27 November 1975 • Birthplace — Egersund, Rogaland • Origin — Norway • Instrument — Saxophone • Genre — Jazz • Occupation — Musician, composer • Associated Acts — Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, Urban Connection
Career
Career
• Illustration — Nymo and John Pål Inderberg with Bjørn Alterhaug Quintet at Vossajazz 2016. Nymo was born in Egersund and brought up in Valnesfjord, near Fauske. Early in his career, he was a member of the Bodø Big Band led by Henning Gravrok, and he is a graduate of the Jazz Program at Trondheim Musikkonservatorium, where he and fellow students established Urban Connection, awarded the title of "Young Jazz Musicians of the Year" in 1998, at Norway's prestigious Molde International Jazz Festival, forerunner of today's Jazz Intro Award, and Spellemannprisen 2001. The result have been three album releases, and touring under the auspices of the Moldejazz, where they visited several of the major festivals in Europe, like the Montreaux Jazz Festival, the North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam, and the Istanbul Jazz Festival amongst others, as well as being Norway's contribution EBU Festival in the Czech and Norwegian jazz forums envoys to the jazz festival in the Faroe Islands. With his brother, he released the album Inner Urge (2004), and was honored "This year's attention" in Valnesfjord 1997.
Within Urban Connection
Within Urban Connection
• 2001: Urban Connection (Bergland Productions) • 2002: French Only (Bergland Productions) • 2004: UC 3 (Bergland Productions)
Within "Atle Nymo and Frode Nymo Quartet"
Within "Atle Nymo and Frode Nymo Quartet"
• 2004: Inner Urge (Taurus Records), feat. Roger Kellaway, with additional Håkon Mjåset Johansen (drums) and Ole Morten Vågan (bass)
Within Børre Dalhaug's "Bigbandblast"
Within Børre Dalhaug's "Bigbandblast"
• 2004: Bigbandblast! (Real Records) • With Erik Wesseltoft • 2013: To Someone I Knew (Normann Records)
Frode Nymo with Never on a Sunday at the stage in Fjøsen. The concert was part of Jazz på Jølst and took place at Skei on 13. October 2017.
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• "This year's attention" in Valnesfjord 1997 • "Young Jazz Musicians of the Year" 1998 at Moldejazz • Spellemannprisen 2001 in the class Jazz, for the album Urban Connection (2001), within Urban Connection
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- 1.Norsk Musikkinformasjon MIC.no. Nymo, Frode Biography.
- 2.Store Norske Leksikon. Frode Nymo.
- 3.Editorial. Urban Connection – "French Only". Norsk Musikkinformasjon MIC.no. 20 March 2002.
- 4.Tor Hammerø. Atle Nymo Frode Nymo Quartet Featuring Roger Kellaway: Inner Urge. Puls.no. 8 November 2004.
- 5.Tomas Lauvland Pettersen. Urban Connection: UC 3. Listen to Norway Ballade.no. 13 December 2005.
- 6.Gorseth, Olav. Dødelig presist – Storbandplate produsert lag på lag. Bergens Tidende. 22 September 2004.
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