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Torbjørn Sunde has belonged to the elite of jazz-trombonists in Scandinavia for more than 25 years. Already in 1975 he toured all over Europe and recorded albums on ECM with Terje Rypal, as Rypdal’s “star sideman” like Steve Lake wrote in Melody Maker (’76). Since then he’s worked with international artists like: Rickie Lee Jones, Dr. John, Joe Cocker, Randy Crawford, Vinnie Calaiuta, Mezzoforte, Jan Garbarek, Palle Mikkelborg, Bugge Wesseltoft, Nils Petter Molvær, Manolo Badrena.

As a freelancer Sunde has played on hundreds of recordings, TV shows, commercials, tours and at the Olympics in Lillehammer 1994. He won a Norwegian Grammy in 1989 with the mini-bigband “Oslo 13” feat. Nils Petter Molvær and Jon Balke. Sunde’s debutalbum “Meridians” was nominated as one 1998’s best albums in Norway’s biggest newspaper “Aftenposten”. In May 2001 he played leadtrombone and was feat. as a solist with The EBU Jazz Orc. in Amsterdam.

Record Label: K&K Verlagsanstalt