Terje Rypdal

Terje Rypdal is a Norwegian guitarist and composer, born in Oslo in 1947. He moved from rock into jazz in the late 1960s and has recorded for ECM since its early years, both as an electric guitarist with a sustained, atmospheric sound and as a composer of symphonies and chamber works for classical players and improvisers. Rypdal formed the psychedelic group Dream in 1967 and made his first solo album, Bleak House, for Polydor in 1968 with Jan Garbarek and Jon Christensen. He played in Garbarek's quartet on Afric Pepperbird (ECM, 1970) and with George Russell.