Audun Kleive

Audun Kleive (born 20 October 1961)^[1] is a Norwegian jazz drummer.^[2] He was raised in Skien and is the son of organist Kristoffer Kleive and brother of organist Iver Kleive.

Audun Kleive
Background information
Born	(1961-10-20) 20 October 1961 (age 63) Skien, Telemark, Norway
Genres	Jazz
Occupation	Musician
Instrument	Drums
Years active	1982–present
Website	audunkleive.com

Career

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",^[3] he made his distinctive contribution to groups like Terje Rypdal's Chasers,^[4] Per Jørgensen's JøKleBa and Jon Balke's Magnetic North Orchestra as well as Marilyn Mazur & Future Song.^[2]

Kleive has released the albums, Bitt (1996–97), Generator X (2000) and Ohmagoddabl (2004) on Bugge Wesseltoft's label, Jazzland.^[5] 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.^[6][7] 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.^[8]

Awards and honors

• 1999: Kongsberg Jazz Award

Discography

As leader

• 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)

As sideman

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)