Introduction
Audun Ben Kristoffer Kleive (born 20 October 1961 in Skien, Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (drums and percussion). He was raised in Skien, as the son of organist Kristoffer Kleive and brother of organist and composer Iver Kleive.
Career
Kleive began to play drums in a rock and dance band, and then went to Oslo, where he studied at the Norwegian Academy of Music. He joined the jazz-rock groups Lotus (1981–83) and Oslo 13 (1981–84), and made his recording debut with the album Anti-therapy in 1983. Described as one of the "leading lights in the Oslo Nu-jazz scene", he made his distinctive contribution to groups like Terje Rypdal's Chasers, Per Jørgensen's JøKleBa and Jon Balke's Magnetic North Orchestra as well as Marilyn Mazur & Future Song.
Kleive has released the albums, Bitt (1996–97), Generator X (2000) and Ohmagoddabl (2004) on Bugge Wesseltoft's label, Jazzland.
In 2010 he gave a concert as a duet with the jazz tenorist Petter Wettre. The concert was recorded and released on the album The Only Way to Travel 2 (2011), as a follow up of the 2000 volume 1 album. In 2013 he was engaged for a set on the Music Festival 'Punktfestivalen' in Kristiansand, where he also collaborated on recordings for the album Crime scenes (2006) with Jan Bang and Erik Honoré among others.
Honors
- 1999: Kongsberg Jazz Award
Discography
As leader
- Solo albums
- 1997: Bitt (Jazzland Records, EmArcy)
- 2012: Release (OLselection)
- With Jon Eberson
- 1992: Music for Men and Machines (Curling Legs)
- With JøKleBa trio including Per Jørgensen & Jon Balke
- 1991: On and On (Odin Records)
- 1992: JøKleBa! (Odin Records)
- 1996: JøKleBa Live! (Curling Legs)
- 2011: Nu Jøk? (EmArcy, Universal Music Norway)
- 2014: Outland (ECM Records)
- With Generator X
- 2000: Generator X (Jazzland Recordings)
- 2004: Omagoddabl (Jazzland Recordings)
- 2012: Attack (POL-selection)
- Trio with Samuli Mikkonen & Anders Jormin
- 2000: KOM Live (2000)
As sideman
- With Oslo 13
- 1983: Anti-Therapy (Odin Records)
- 1987: Off Balance (Odin Records)
- 1992: Nonsentration (ECM Records), with Jon Balke
- 1993: Live (Curling Legs), with Jon Balke
- 1993: Live In The North (Curling Legs)
- With Anne Marie Giørtz Quintet
- 1983: Breaking Out (Hot Club Records)
- With Extended Noise
- 1984: Keep Nose in Front (Hot Club Records)
- 1986: Jamaha
- 1990: Slow But Sudden / Langsam, Aber Plötzlich (Odin Records)
- With Terje Rypdal
- 1985: Chaser (ECM Records)
- 1986: Blue (ECM Records)
- 1988: The Singles Collection (ECM Records)
- 1994: If Mountains Could Sing (ECM Records)
- 2002: Rarum, Vol. 7: Selected Recordings
- With Jon Eberson Trio
- 1986: Stash (Odin Records)
- 2006: Bring It On (Jazzaway Records)
- 2009: Born To Be Slow (NorCD)
- With Armen Donelian Trio including Carl Morten Iversen
- 1987: Trio '87 (Odin Records)
- With Anders Jormin
- 1988: Eight Pieces (Dragon Records)
- With Frode Gjerstad & Circulasione Totale Orchestra
- 1987: Accent (Odin Records)
- 1996: Recycling Grieg (Circulasione Totale)
- 1998: Borealis (Cadence Jazz Records)
- 2000: Enten Eller (Circulasione Totale)
- 2008: Open Port (Circulasione Totale)
- 2009: Bandwidth (Rune Grammofon)
- 2011: PhilaOslo (Circulasione Totale)
- With 'Entra' including Anders Jormin, Harald Svensson, Thomas Gustafsson & Staffan Svensson
- 1989: Live Lights (Timeless Records), Live record
- 1992: Ballet (LJ Records)
- 1998: In Concert (LJ Records), Live record
- With Marilyn Mazur's Future Song
- 1990: Future Song (Intuition Records)
- 1994: Small Labyrinths (ECM Records)
- 2002: All the Birds (Stunt Records)
- 2004: Daylight Stories (Stunt Records)
- With Pierre Dørge
- 1991: The Jazzpar Prize (Enja Records)
- With Nils Petter Molvær
- 1991: Åpent Øre, with Jens Bugge Wesseltoft & Bjørn Kjellemyr
- 2009: Hamada (Sula Records, EmArcy)
- With Sigmund Groven
- 1992: Musikken Inni Oss (Sonet Music), feat. Arve Tellefsen
- With Arild Andersen, Ralph Towner & Naná Vasconcelos
- 1993: If You Look Far Enough (ECM Records)
- With Frederik Gislinge, Henrik Sveidahl, Lars Vissing, Mats Olofsson, Monica Bauchwitz & Ture Larsen
- 1993: People, Places, Times and Faces (Storyville Records)
- With Jon Balke & Magnetic North Orchestra
- 1994: Further (ECM Records)
- 1999: Solarized (Emarcy Records)
- 2001: Live in the North (ECM Records)
- 2002: Kyanos (ECM Records)
- With Various Artists - Tributes
- 1995: Come Together: Guitar Tribute to the Beatles, Vol. 2 (Select Records)
- 2002: Warmth in the Wilderness, Vol. 2: A Tribute to Jason Becker (Lion Records)
- With Bugge Wesseltoft's New Conception of Jazz
- 1996: New Conception of Jazz (Jazzland Recordings)
- With Olga Konkova
- 1996: Going with the Flow (Curling Legs), trio including Carl Morten Iversen
- With Thomas Gustafsson
- 1999: T.G. Evil Orchestra (Dragon Recordings)
- With Sidsel Endresen
- 2000: Undertow (Jazzland Recordings)
- With Rita Marcotulli
- 2002: Koine (Le Chant Du Monde)
- With Jan Gunnar Hoff
- 2003: In Town (Curling Legs)
- 2008: Magma (Grappa Music)
- With Arve Henriksen
- 2004: Chiaroscuro (Rune Grammofon)
- 2008: Cartography (ECM Records)
- 2014: The Nature Of Connections (Rune Grammofon)
- With Jan Bang & Erik Honoré Punkt
2006: Crime scenes (Punkt Recordings)
- With Dhafer Youssef
- 2006: Divine Shadows (Jazzland Recordings)
- With Mathias Eick
- 2007: The Door (ECM Records)
- With Hans Ulrik, Kasper Tranberg, Eivind Aarset & Anders Jormin
- 2009: Slow Procession (Stunt Records)
- With David Sylvian
- 2010: Sleepwalkers (Samadhi Sound)
- With Petter Wettre
- 2011: The Only Way to Travel 2 (Household Records), duo
- With Eivind Aarset
- 2012: Dream Logic (ECM Records)
- With Fester
- 2012: Celebration Of Death (Apocalyptic Empire Records)
- With Scheen Jazzorkester
- 2017: Politur Passiarer (Losen Records)