Vidar Johansen

Quick Facts

Full Name	Vidar Johansen
Occupation	Saxophonist
Date Of Birth	Jun 2, 1953(1953-06-02)
Age	71
Birthplace	Oslo
Country	Norway
Horoscope	Gemini

Vidar Johansen Biography

Vidar Johansen is one of the most popular and richest Saxophonist who was born on June 2, 1953 in Oslo, Norway. Vidar Johansen (born on June 2, 1953, from Oslo, Norway) is Norwegian musician. Norwegian jazz musician from Norway (tenor, baritone, soprano and alto saxophones ), flute and bass clarinet) as well as a music arranger and composer.

Then he released his album entitled Lopsided (1997) using his own moniker. Vidar Johansen Trio perform live on Oslo Jazzhus in 1995. Alongside Bjornar Andresen and Thomas Stronen, they formed the group “Bayashi” who released the album Help Is on Its Way (2001) and Rock (2004). Then he was a part of Tine Asmundsen’s Tine Asmundsen The Lonely Woman album Alive (2003) and the Demons’ diversion (2005), Radegund (2008) and Lovely Luna (2012), the album Bjorn Johansen in Memoriam (2003) and Jacob Young’s evening falls (2004) as well as Sideways (2006) and Sideways (2006), Erik Wesseltoft’s Amor (2004) and The Life Is A Beautiful Monster with Crimetime Orchestra (2004), Sonny Simmons The traveler (2004) and the album Madison in which he performs together with Tine Asmundsen, Richard Davis and Robert Shy (2007).

A adept, versatile and a top-quality musician. In recent times, he’s played, amongst other things, as a lively soloist on bass clarinet together with Soyr, Ab und Zu and Bugge Wesseltoft (1995-1996). As a composer, he is known for his subtile titles, compositional documentation such as in the CD Nordjazz Big 5″ recorded by Danish Radio Big Band in 1987. Sony Simmons plays the music of Vidar Johansen – The Traveler (2004-05).

Vidar Johansen Net Worth

Vidar Johansen is one of the richest Saxophonist from Norway. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Vidar Johansen 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Johansen is regarded as one among the top Saxophonists who emerged from the Norwegian jazz scene during the 1970s. He first began playing in early 1970 as a member of a quartet along that included Jon Eberson, and collaborated with the Balke brothers. He also played in the Jon Balke’s quartet (1973-74), “The amateur big band” in Kongsberg (1974,) in the jazz-rock group “Adonis” (1974-75) and was well-known in his group, which was led by Erik Balke (1974-77), participating in Moldejazz (1975) in 1975, and Vossajazz (1976).

Additionally, he played as a part of University Big Band in Oslo (1977) among others, “Hipshot Percussion” 1976-1978, “Shrub Smoul” 1977-78 Jazz music group “Lotus” from 1977 to 1983 and albums (1979), Espen Rud’s “Krabol” 1978, a group with Bassist Asmund Snortheim (1978-79), Age Rothe Quartet 1979-80), “Lille Froen Saksofonkvartett” (1979-89) performing on numerous festival shows as well as the album 4 men (1986) Per Hoglend’s Sextet (1980-81) Anne-Marie Giortz Quartet (1982-87) which released albums in the years 1983 and 1985. In 1984, he was a member of the group “Out to Lunch”, and they released two albums: Out To Lunch (1988) and Kullboksrytter (1994), Oslo 13 1986-1992 Ole Jacob Hansen / Harald Gundhus big band in 1988, a trio featuring Kare Garnes as well as Tom Olstad (1990), Soyr in 1991, with the album release Buses homesick 1993 , The meat and the love (1995), Grand Slam and Quartet Decisive in 1992. In addition, he is frequently substituted in Radio big band from 1978 to 1990 (pl.innsp. 1987) as well as The Per Husby Dedication Orchestra in 1984 until 1988 (pl.innsp. 1985, 1987,) also recorded discs the Gambian Norwegian Friendship Orchestra. Norwegian Friendship Orchestra 1982 Jens Wendelboe Big Band in 1983, Lars Martin Myhre / Slagen Big Band (1983-85), “Jazz on Norwegian” 1990 Jens Wendelboe Big Crazy Energy Band from 1991 to 1992 Knut Kristiansen Monk Moods (1995) Odd Borretzen and Lars Martin Myhre (1995), Eivind Aarset (1997), “Element” (1998) and Lars Martin Myhre (1998-99), Kjell Karlsen Big Band (2001), Ron Olsen (2002) and Paul Weeden (2003).

In recent years (2015) he has been living on a mountain farm in Lom, which does not prevent him from the participations on the Norwegian jazz scenes. In 2009 he released three albums, his own Lost Animals, The Core & More Vol 1 and Atomic Symphony by Crime Time Orchestra, Sonny Simmons and The Norwegian Radio Orchestra.

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Facts & Trivia

Vidar Ranked on the list of most popular Saxophonist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Norway. Vidar Johansen celebrates birthday on June 2 of every year.