Jon Audun Baar

Jon Audun Baar
Born 1986 (age 31–32)
Tomter, Østfold
Origin Norway
Genres Jazz
Occupation(s) Musician, composer
Instruments Drums
Labels Cuneiform Records
Associated acts Pixel
Website pixelband.no

Jon Audun Baar (1986 in Tomter, Hobøl, Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz drummer.

Career

Baar studied jazz drumming at the Norwegian Academy of Music with teachers like Jon Christensen and Rune Martinsen.[1] He has played on several jazzfestivals in Norway such as Moldejazz, Oslo Jazzfestival and Dølajazz with many different bands and artist. He plays within the critically acclaimed trio Eberson/Baar/Eberson with the international jazz guitar legend Jon Eberson and his daughter the keyboardist Marte Maaland Eberson.[2]

Baar is the drummer of the bands Axel Jensen Lucky Three, Ambush, Malmfrid Hallum Band, Pedersen/Myhr/Baar Trio and Pixel including the front figure double bassist and vocalist Ellen Andrea Wang, trumpeter Jonas Kilmork Vemøy and saxophonist Harald Lassen, noted as "one of the most memorable moments" of the Match and Fuse Festival, by the Jazz magazine Down Beat.[3]

Honors

  • 2013: Featured at Young Nordic Jazz Comets within Pixel[4]

Discography

Within Pixel

  • 2012: Reminder (Cuneiform)
  • 2013: We Are All Small Pixels (Cuneiform)
  • 2015: Golden Years (Cuneiform)

References

  1. ↑ "Musikkhøgskolen med 24 jazzkonserter på en uke". Ballade.no. Retrieved 2013-09-20.
  2. ↑ Mosnes, Terje (1 October 2011). "Ungjazz uten aldersgrense". Dagbladet. Retrieved 2013-09-20.
  3. ↑ Graham, Stephen (26 June 2012). "Match & Fuse Artists Light Up London". Down Beat. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 2013-09-20.
  4. ↑ "Young Nordic Jazz Comets". Young Nordic Jazz Comets. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 20 September 2013.
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