We have learned of the sad death of Bjørn Kjellemyr, a Norwegian artist who played with such jazz greats as Terje Rypdal, Joe Henderson, Chet Baker, Art Farmer and Pat Metheny.
Bjørn, who was 74, featured on many ECM recordings.
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Quotations about – not from – myth festoon both stage (pre-perfromance) and accompanying freesheet. ‘The lover of myth is in.a sense a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonders’ (Aristotle, from Metapphysics: follow this […]
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