Norwegian guitarist and composer Terje Rypdal, tone poet of the Fender Stratocaster, was born in Oslo in 1947. The son of a military conductor and clarinettist, Rypdal began piano lessons aged five ...

Norwegian guitar icon Terje Rypdal surfaced more than three decades ago as a new guitar voice, but he strode out of the fields of rock music, not jazz. He was influenced a great deal by the electronic ...

Norwegian jazz prog trio Elephant9 have teamed with their country's legendary guitar player Terje Rypdal for a new double live album, Catching A Fire, which will be released through Rune Grammofon ...

The red spine on the jewel case and the typeface look familiar enough, though the top right hand corner of the CD cover shows Warner Classics’ logo. EMI Classics is no more. After more than 30 years, ...

Don’t take the title too literally. Crime Scene might be the perfect soundtrack for a killing, but its composer, Norwegian guitarist Terje Rypdal, didn’t have murder in mind when he was asked to craft ...

Composer and guitarist Terje Rypdal premiered this suite for the 17-piece Bergen Big Band and a quartet of himself, Palle Mikkelborg (trumpet), Ståle Storløkken (Hammond organ) and Paolo Vinaccia ...