Artist: Per Zanussi

Per Zanussi is an Italian–Norwegian jazz musician (upright bass) and composer, and has recorded with Hamid Drake, Louis Moholo,  Paal Nilssen-Love, Bobby Bradford,  Sabir Mateen, Franklin Kiermyer, Stephen O'Malley,  Axel Dörner, Petter Wettre, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Bugge Wesseltoft, Mats Gustafsson,  Kjetil Møster,  Kevin Norton, Ivar Grydeland, Ernesto Rodrigues, Tetuzi Akiyama, and Håvard Wiik. 

Zanussi was born in Oslo and was educated on the Jazz program at Trondheim Musikkonservatorium and at Norges Musikkhøgskole. He was one of the initiators of the band Wibutee from Trondheim  (1996–2004), with Håkon Kornstad and Wetle Holte. 

Since 2001 he has led the "Zanussi Five" with saxophone lineup Kjetil Møster, Rolf-Erik Nystrøm and Eirik Hegdal, and percussionist Per Oddvar Johansen, a project that has produced three albums. He also contributes to the "MZN3" with Kjetil Møster and Kjell Nordeson, the "Trespass Trio" with Martin Kuchen and Raymond Strid, the Jazzmob and the "Crimetime Orchestra". 

Further information about Per Zanussi is found at PerZanussi.com.

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