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Harald Lassen (born 13 March 1987 in Kristiansand, Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician who has devoted his career exclusively to his own band. His unpredictable, but characteristic, mixture of saxophone, voice, effects and percussion has become his "brand" and emphasizes his quote "I´m not a saxophonist - I´m a musician". He is also a composer, and known from the bands Pixel, Mopti (feat. Bendik Baksaas on the album ''Bits & Pieces'') and DUPLEX. He has beside that collaborated with musicians like Jon Christensen, Arild Andersen, Bugge Wesseltoft, Morten Qvenild, Ole Morten Vågan, Emilie Stoesen Christensen, Espen Rud, Anja Lauvdal, Rob Waring, Mathias Eick, Ray Phiri, Ediz Hafizoglu Nazdrave and Torgrim Sollid. == Career == Lassen was raised in Greipstad, Songdalen. He took up the saxophone after many years of playing the piano. He attended the Toneheim Folkehøgskole (2006–08) and did further studies in jazz and improvised music at the Norwegian Academy of Music (2008–12). Since 2012 Lassen has been working as a freelance musician with saxophone as the main instrument, with base in Oslo. Collaborating with bassist Christian Meaas Svendsen in the duo "DUPLEX Lassen & Svendsen", and in bands like "Mopti" including Svendsen, Kristoffer Eikrem (trumpet), David Aleksander Sjølie (guitar) and Andreas Wildhagen (drums), and "Pixel" including Ellen Andrea Wang (bass and vocals), Jon Audun Baar (drums, percussion and backing vocals), and Jonas Kilmork Vemøy (trumpet and backing vocals), he has released several acclaimed albums, and the gig by "Pixel" was noted as "one of the most memorable moments" of the Match and Fuse Festival in London 2012, by the jazz magazine ''Down Beat''. Lassen has worked with African musicians and dancers in Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Mozambique and Uganda. In 2013 Lassen moved to Zanzibar for three months to teach and build up a jazz department for young music students at Dhow Countries Music Academy. Lassen is currently a board member of Oslo Jazzfestival (2015). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Harald Lassen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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