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Jun 28, 2012 · Water Stories puts the Norwegian pianist, composer, and novelist in fine and familiar company, sharing the studio with guitarist Terje Rypdal, drummers Jon Christensen and Per Hillestad, and bassist Bjørn Kjellemyr.
Water Stories is an album by Norwegian pianist Ketil Bjørnstad recorded in January 1993 and released on ECM later that year. The quartet features rhythm section Terje Rypdal, Bjørn Kjellemyr and Jon Christensen, with drummer Per Hillestad substituting Christensen on part two.
Aug 23, 1993 · Water Stories. Ketil Bjørnstad (piano), Bjorn Kjellemyr (bass), Jon Christensen (drums), Terje Rypdal (guitar), Per Hillestad (drums) Release Date: 23rd Aug 1993. Catalogue No: 5190762. Label: ECM. Length: 57 minutes.
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Apr 15, 2008 · The pieces played on Life in Leipzig are from The Sea's two albums, Water Stories (ECM, 1993) and two of Rypdal's albums, stitched together to form two large, flowing uninterrupted sections on the album.
Exposure to the music of Miles Davis and Terje Rypdal converted him to progressive jazz and he made his first recording, with a quartet that included Jon Christensen and Arild Andersen, in 1973. Another 20 years would pass before he came to ECM, with Water Stories, a collaboration with Rypdal and
Norwegian guitarist and composer Terje Rypdal, tone poet of the Fender Stratocaster, was born in Oslo in 1947. The son of a military conductor and clarinettist, Rypdal began piano lessons aged five and took up the trumpet three years later. When he was twelve he began teaching himself the guitar.
