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Arve Henriksen

Born in 1968, Arve Henriksen studied at the Trondheim Conservatory from 1987-1991, and has worked as a freelance musician since 1989.

He has worked with many musicians familiar to ECM listeners, including Jon Balke (with whose Magnetic North Orchestra he has played extensively), Anders Jormin, Edward Vesala, Jon Christensen, Marilyn Mazur, Audun Kleive, Nils Petter Molvær, Misha Alperin, Arkady Shilkloper, Arild Andersen, Stian Carstensen, Dhafer Youssef, Hope Sanduval, the Cikada String Quartet, The Source and more. He has played in a wide spectre of contexts, ranging from working with koto player Satsuki Odamura, to the rock band Motorpsycho via numerous free improvising groups with Ernst Reisiger, Sten Sandell, Peter Friis-Nilsen, Terje Isungset, Marc Ducret ,Karl Seglem et cetera. Today he is working with Supersilent, Christian Wallumrød Ensemble and Trygve Seim Ensemble.

He has composed music (commission) to Bale Jazz, Vossa Jazz, "My own private furry" (dance performance) and to "FRED" (theatre performance). He was «artist in residence» at Moers Jazzfestival 2006 and he has been a part of the European Jazz Launch project 2004-2006.

Arve says: "An interest in sound-making was there from the beginning of my work with the trumpet. I have spent many hours on developing a warm sound, for instance, but not only that. In my opinion, the trumpet has vast potential for tone and sound variations that we still have not heard. At one point, I think it was in 1988, Nils Petter Molvær lent me a cassette of shakuhachi flute playing. Then things changed."

Arve Henriksen began collecting recordings of Japanese music, with koto, biwa, shakuhachi and other instruments: "I let the music 'ring' and develop in my head. I was astonished by the sound of this flute..." The shakuhachi's roots in the tradition of Zen Buddhism fascinated the trumpeter, as did its "meditative and minimalistic expressive quality. "This has made me work with tone and sound making in a new direction.”

But his interest doesn’t stop with this. He has been inspired by all sorts of folk music, also the Norwegian. He is now interested to work with more contemporary and composed music. He has also spent time on electronics and different treatments on the trumpet. And during the last years has also been focusing on his singing.

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Album Review

Daniel Sommer / Arve Henriksen / Johannes Lundberg: Sounds & Sequences

Read "Sounds & Sequences" reviewed by Nenad Georgievski


Danish drummer Daniel Sommer's Sounds & Sequences is the second part of his Nordic Trilogy, a captivating project that aims to explore the breadth and depth of Nordic improvisation across three distinct ensembles. This follow-up to As Time Passes continues Sommer's commitment to presenting different facets of Nordic music, while avoiding any repetition of sound or structure from the first installment. In this chapter, he's joined by Swedish bassist Johannes Lundberg and Norwegian trumpeter Arve Henriksen, and together they craft ...

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Live Review

Arve Henriksen and Harmen Fraanje at Bimhuis

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Arve Henriksen and Harmen Fraanje Bimhuis Amsterdam, Netherlands September 28, 2024 At the Bimhuis jazz club in jny: Amsterdam, Norwegian trumpeter Arve Henriksen and Dutch pianist Harmen Fraanje created a captivating, almost otherworldly experience, a meditative performance that felt as much like sound painting as it did a concert. Together they delivered a concert where music, ambiance and the setting created an atmosphere of hushed wonder. The venue itself added to ...

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Northern Expo 2024

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Northern Expo 2024 Various venues Bodö, Norway June 13-15, 2024 The organizers of Northern Expo, a showcase for musical talent from Northern Norway, do not do things by halves. Why stop at Oslo, the logical meeting point for the 50 music industry delegates flown in from various points on the globe, when you can transport them 100 kilometers above the Arctic Circle to Bodö? With a population of just over 50,000, the ...

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Album Review

Arve Henriksen: The Touch of Time

Read "The Touch of Time" reviewed by Scott Gudell


Nordic trumpeter Arve Henriksen has played jazz, metal, folk, eclectic world music--with a nod to Japanese flute--and more. That caused at least one DJ to tell Henriksen “you are the musical chameleon." He will politely acknowledge that statement but has consistently returned to his chosen ground zero of ambient jazz dominated by subtle improvisation. When Henriksen started playing in the '80s, he often collaborated with other musicians based, like him, in Norway. Since he began recording at the turn of ...

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Liner Notes

Arve Henriksen: Solidification

Read "Arve Henriksen: Solidification" reviewed by John Kelman


Constellations and the Something of Discovery Music as a chosen profession may suggest occupying the minds of its makers far beyond the 9-to-5 hours of your average job, but for some it goes further still. Transcending mere preoccupation, trumpeter Arve Henriksen seems to eat, drink, sleep and dream music, 24/7, 365 days a year. “I was sitting in my car recently, driving from Oslo to Gothenburg," Henriksen relates, “and I just started to sing and sing and sing. And I ...

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Album Review

Ruben Machtelinckx: A Short Story

Read "A Short Story" reviewed by Mark Sullivan


In retrospect the meeting of Belgian guitarist & composer Ruben Machtelinckx and Norwegian trumpeter Arve Henriksen seems inevitable. They are both masters of delicacy and texture, as well as having distinctive and unusual sounds on their respective instruments. Machtelinckx composed most of the tunes, but these duets cast both players as equal contributors. It is a sound like chamber music, with no heroic solos. “Lessness" opens the album with an introspective air, acoustic guitar and Henriksen's distinctive ...

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Jakob Bro: Uma Elmo

Read "Uma Elmo" reviewed by Mark Sullivan


After a break of a few years, Danish guitarist & composer Jakob Bro returns to ECM Records with a new trio. Bay Of Rainbows (ECM Records, 2018) was a live recording documenting his trio with double bassist Thomas Morgan and drummer Joey Baron, while Returnings (ECM Records, 2018) was a quartet reuniting Bro with Morgan and drummer Jon Christensen (who had played on his ECM debut) plus trumpeter Palle Mikkelborg. The sound here almost splits the difference; Bro is joined ...

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Burning Ambulance #6 Out Now

Burning Ambulance #6 Out Now

Source: Philip Freeman

The latest issue of Burning Ambulance, an independently published journal of the arts, is available now. This issue includes: a cover story on Arve Henriksen by Phil Freeman a profile of Ivo Perelman by Clifford Allen an interview with Swiss sound artist/composer Reto Mäder by Phil Freeman an interview with Dutch grindcore/jazz sax-drums duo Dead Neanderthals by MacDara Conroy an interview with French black metal duo Spektr by Leonard Pierce an interview with Japanese musician/artist Yoshiko Ohara by Phil Freeman ...

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Performance / Tour

Arve Henriksen on Rare US Tour in June

Arve Henriksen on Rare US Tour in June

Source: All About Jazz

May 5th marked the release of Cartography, the first album by Arve Henriksen for ECM under his own name despite his having appeared on many albums as a sideman since 1996. On the album, a shifting cast of characters, with Jan Bang (live sampling and album co-producer) at the center, provides a series of soundscapes, an ambient-experimental map of moods, for the uniquely liquid, singing trumpet lines of Arve Henriksen to scale and explore. Arve Henriksen and Jan Bang are ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Sounds & Sequences

April Records
2025

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The Touch of Time

ECM Records
2024

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Through the Wave of...

All Colours Arts
2024

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A Short Story

Aspen Edities
2022

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Uma Elmo

ECM Records
2021

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Opaque Lights

Fluidian Music
2021

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Touch of Time

From: The Touch of Time
By Arve Henriksen

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