Arild Andersen

Arild Andersen is a Norwegian double bassist and composer, born in 1945 in Strømmen. He played in the Jan Garbarek Quartet with Terje Rypdal and Jon Christensen from 1967 to 1973 and has led his own groups since 1974, recording most of his work as a leader for ECM. Andersen played on Garbarek's Afric Pepperbird, and his own quartet recorded Clouds in My Head (1975), Shimri and Green Shading into Blue (1978). In 1982 he formed a quintet with Jon Christensen, Jon Balke, Tore Brunborg and Nils Petter Molvær that became Masqualero.