Nils Petter Molvær

Nils Petter Molvær (born September 18, 1960) is a Norwegian jazz trumpeter. He plays a kind of jazz called future jazz. He has won Spellemannprisen in the Open Class three times. In 1983 he joined Jazzpunkensemblet, a Norwegian jazz orchestra. He released his first solo album Khmer in 1998 in the United States on ECM Records. It has sold more copies than any of his later albums. Molvær played trumpet on the 2008 Hector Zazou album Corps Electriques. Molvær was a member of a post-rock band called Jaga Jazzist.

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Category:1960 births
Category:Living people
Category:Norwegian jazz musicians
Category:Trumpeters