Part Three - Hilde Hefte - Norwegian Jazz and Randi Hultin.
Jan.s: Norway has produced a number of unique Jazz artists. I first became aware of a number of them during the early 80's. Terje Rypdal, Jan Garbarek and Karin Krog to name a few but there were no doubt countless others. Would you share with us what you feel allowed the Norwegain Jazz scene to develop in such a rich and unique way? Hilde: Your last question is simple and easy, good “jazz-workers”. There lived a person in Norway named Randi Hultin. If it hadn’t been for her the story would have been different I think. She was close friends with all the greatest American jazz musicians and she managed to get them to visit Norway, doing concerts, playing with the Norwegian musicians – and she arranged jam sessions in her own house almost every night. She planted the seed for a lawn for all jazz musicians in Norway to walk on. That’s one of the main reasons. The other one is that every jazz musician in Norway worked with each other no matter age, generation, color or genre ...