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Magni Wentzel (born 28 June 1945 in , ) is a Norwegian jazz musician (vocals and guitar), the daughter of musicians Odd Wentzel-Larsen and Åse Wentzel, and known for a number of recordings.


Career
Wentzel started in "Totenlaget Barneteater" (1951). She was trained by opera singers , and professor Paul Lohmann in , took guitar lessons from 1956, and released her debut jazz album That Old Feeling in 1959. Instead of attending the first year of the newly established "Statens operahøgskole" in Oslo, she chose to go on learning classical guitar in Spain (1963), Switzerland and England, and taught jazz song under . She played on the Club 7 in Oslo within , and at the same time she was strongly influenced by .

She collaborated extensively with a series of Oslo-based musicians, like within the quartets and quintets including and . dedicated the album Far, Far Away Where Longing Live to her. Later she worked for Opera Mobile, then as the "mother" in The Tales of Hoffmann by Offenbach.


Honors


Discography

Solo albums
  • 1969: Magni Wentzel Plays (), Norwegian versions of pop songs Frank Mills and Starshine from the musical Hair
  • 1975: Guitar And Flute (Polydor), classic classics with Torkil Bye Flute
  • 1978: Jeg Synger For Min Lille Venn (VNP), children's album with her mother Åse Wentzel
  • 1983: Sofies Plass (Hot Club Records), a famous jazz pieces with , , Ole Jacob Hansen & Carl Morten Iversen, nominated for the
  • 1986: All Or Nothing at All (), with Egil Kapstad, & Egil Johansen
  • 1988: My Wonderful One (Gemini Records), classics with , Egil Kapstad, & Egil Johansen
  • 1991: New York Nights (Gemini Records), jazz hits with &
  • 1995: Come Away With Me (Gemini Records),jazz standards, with Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen & Roger Kellaway
  • 1997: Turn Out The Stars (Hot Club Records), varied wipers, among them four from West Side Story, with Roger Kellaway &
  • 2000: Porgy & Bess (Hot Club Records), music by with her own sextet (including , , Christian Jaksjø, Carl Morten Iversen & )
  • 2002: Divergence (Hot Club Records), jazz and Spanish guitar music recorded 1997, with & Roger Kellaway
  • 2010: Live (), recordings from the club Håndverkeren by , at "Oslo Jazzfestival" 2003, with Jørn Øien, Jon Gordon, Carl Morten Iversen & Espen Rud


Singles
  • 1958: Mamma (En Gutt Har Sett På Meg), with
  • 1958: Byssan lull Blues, with Åse Wentzel
  • 1959: That Old Feeling/My One And Only Love
  • 1959: Augustin, with Åse Wentzel &
  • 1960: Milk Shake/Troll-Rock
  • 1970: Walk on My Side/I Want You


Collaborative works
With other projects
  • 1994: Stille Vann, with Torhild Nigar
  • 2004: Syng & le – de beste fra 1952–1962, with Åse Wentzel
  • 2005: Portrait of a Norwegian Jazz Artist with Erik Amundsen

With various artists
  • 1988: The Jazz Sampler
  • 1992: Fra En Musikers Dagbok
  • 1997: Gemini – The Jazz Sampler Vol. 3
  • 2003: Turning Pages – Jazz in Norway Vol. 4
  • 2005 Stellar Voyage – Rare Rock Grooves And Fusion From Norway
  • 2005 Turning Pages: Jazz In Norway 1960–70
  • 2006 Hørt & Uhørt – 28 Diamanter Fra 50-tallet
  • 2006 Jazz Collection 1
  • 2007 NRK Sessions: Soul, Afro-Jazz And Latin From The Club 7 Scene


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