Jazz Articles about Tellef Ogrim

About Tellef Ogrim

Album Review

There are very good reasons not to approach animals in the wild. Chief among them is survival. Sure, all those nature documentaries and children's cartoons show the playful offspring romping in nature's glory. What they fail to reveal is the eviscerated body of the gentle nature photographer who got too close. You might not have been in attendance at BrÖtz, a club in Gothenburg, Sweden in the fall of 2017, and maybe that is a good thing. Listening ...

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Album Review

Tellef Ogrim: Wagon 8

by John Kelman
May 6, 2007

While it's easy to find artists who focus on fretless electric bass, those who concentrate on fretless electric guitar are less commonplace. High profile artists including jazz icon Pat Metheny and guitarist/vocalist Adrian Belew have dabbled with fretless guitars over the years, but few make it a priority. Norwegian guitarist Tellef Øgrim has been focusing on the instrument for twenty years, and while he's been involved in a variety of musical projects over the years, Wagon 8 is his first ...