Jens Christian Bugge Wesseltoft (born 1 February 1964) is a Norwegian jazz musician, pianist, composer and producer, son of the jazz guitarist Erik Wesseltoft.
Career
Wesseltoft was born in Porsgrunn. After high school in Skien, where he was involved in the school brass band and dance orchestras, he became a professional musician in 1983 only 19 years old. By the age of 16, he joined a punk rock band, but the influence of the jazz guitarist father, stalked on him. After moving to his father in Oslo (1984), it was mostly music with roots in jazz that mattered, although he also worked as a back-up musician and producer for the pop and rock elite in Norway. He had originally intended to study music, but the gigs were too many, and therefore he never got any further formal musical education. Towards the end of the 1980s Bugge Wesseltoft was involved in a variety of pop, rock and jazz bands like the "U and Z", "Et Cetera" and most important the Oslo Groove Company, and he was recognised as a coming musical genius with a great talent for the piano. This led to collaborations within the Knut Riisnæs Quartet in 1989, and he was soon after contacted by Arild Andersen to join in on the commissioned work for Vossajazz - released on the album Sagn (1990) - and the follow up Arv (1993), and Jan Garbarek for his Molde Canticle (1990), a commission from the Moldejazz, released on the album I Took Up the Runes (1990).
Full Moon High is a 1981 horror comedy film written and directed by Larry Cohen, centering on a high school werewolf who tries to keep his secret from others. He also ignores his girlfriend's sexual advances because it's his "time of the month."
Plot summary
A teenager goes on a trip to Transylvania with his father and gets bitten by a werewolf. Made ageless, he attempts to put his life back together a couple of decades later by enrolling in high school. The basic premise of the movie is that he tries to keep his secret from the school and his girlfriend with comedic results. The movie was filmed partially at John Burroughs Senior High School in the city of Burbank, California, in the summer of 1979.
A portion of this movie was also filmed on location in Lyndhurst, New Jersey, on the football field in Bergen County Park at the foot of Valley Brook Avenue and River Road. The stands were filled with everyone from the town, and the varsity football team of that year were featured.
Bugge Wesseltoft - New Conception of Jazz Live (2003)
Jazzland Recordings :
Bugge Wesseltoft - keyboards
Ingebrigt - Flat bass
Anders Engen - drums
Per Martinsen - dj, samples
Paolo Vinaccia - effects, percussion
Jonas Lönna - dj, sounds
Marius Reksjø - bass
Wetle Holte - drums
Richard Gensollen - percussion, electronic rhythms
John Scofield - guitar, sounds
01. Live in Amiens (April 2000) | 0:00.00 | 11.13
02. Live in Cologne (April 2000) | 11:13 | 10.16
03. Sharing Live in Paris (June 2001) | 21:29 | 9.01
04. Lone Live in Paris (June 2001) | 30:30 | 11.23
05. Live at Blaa (December 2002) | 41:54 | 20.46
06. Feel Good (February 2000) | 1:02:38 | 7.10
07. Existence (February 2000) | 1:09:50 | 6.50
published: 05 Oct 2017
Bugge Wesseltoft - Yellow is the colour -
Painting music...peace & love to bugge and his moving music
published: 18 Dec 2007
Bugge Wesseltoft – Songs (2012 - Album)
Tracklist:
[00:00] 1. Darn That Dream
Written-By – Van Heusen
[07:58] 2. My Foolish Heart
Written By – Washington/Young
[13:16] 3. How High The Moon
Written-By – Morgan Lewis
[20:00] 4. Moon River
Written-By – Henry Mancini
[25:52] 5. Chicken Feathers
Written-By – Steve Kuhn
[32:48] 6. Lament
Written-By – J.J. Johnson
[38:14] 7. We'll Be Together Again
Written By – Fischer/Laine
[43:18] 8. Like Someone In Love
Written-By – Van Heusen, Burke
[50:25] 9. Giant Steps
Written-By – John Coltrane
Credits:
Copyright (c) – Jazzland Recordings
Design – Rune Mortensen
Mixed By, Mastered By – Atle Aamodt
Photography By – Egil Hansen
Piano [Uncredited] – Bugge Wesseltoft
published: 15 Nov 2019
Bugge Wesseltoft, Dhafer Youssef, Erik Truffaz - live 2004
Jazz a Vienne 2004
Bugge Wesseltoft - keyboards
Dhafer Youssef - vocals, oud, percussion
Jonas Lonna - DJ
Ole Morten Vaagan - bass
Andreas Bye - drums
Rikard Gensollen - percussion
+ Erik Truffaz - trumpet ( on last track )
Frick - 0:00
He Is ? - 7:07
Sunday - 18:33
Trio ( improvisation ) - 27:20
Film Ing. - 31:54
Oh Ye ( feat Erik Truffaz ) - 43:15
+ special guest Erik Truffaz - trumpet
Bugge Wesseltoft - New Conception of Jazz Live (2003)
Jazzland Recordings :
Bugge Wesseltoft - keyboards
Ingebrigt - Flat bass
Anders Engen - drums
Per Martins...
Bugge Wesseltoft - New Conception of Jazz Live (2003)
Jazzland Recordings :
Bugge Wesseltoft - keyboards
Ingebrigt - Flat bass
Anders Engen - drums
Per Martinsen - dj, samples
Paolo Vinaccia - effects, percussion
Jonas Lönna - dj, sounds
Marius Reksjø - bass
Wetle Holte - drums
Richard Gensollen - percussion, electronic rhythms
John Scofield - guitar, sounds
01. Live in Amiens (April 2000) | 0:00.00 | 11.13
02. Live in Cologne (April 2000) | 11:13 | 10.16
03. Sharing Live in Paris (June 2001) | 21:29 | 9.01
04. Lone Live in Paris (June 2001) | 30:30 | 11.23
05. Live at Blaa (December 2002) | 41:54 | 20.46
06. Feel Good (February 2000) | 1:02:38 | 7.10
07. Existence (February 2000) | 1:09:50 | 6.50
Tracklist:
[00:00] 1. Darn That Dream
Written-By – Van Heusen
[07:58] 2. My Foolish Heart
Written By – Washington/Young
[13:16] 3. How High The M...
Tracklist:
[00:00] 1. Darn That Dream
Written-By – Van Heusen
[07:58] 2. My Foolish Heart
Written By – Washington/Young
[13:16] 3. How High The Moon
Written-By – Morgan Lewis
[20:00] 4. Moon River
Written-By – Henry Mancini
[25:52] 5. Chicken Feathers
Written-By – Steve Kuhn
[32:48] 6. Lament
Written-By – J.J. Johnson
[38:14] 7. We'll Be Together Again
Written By – Fischer/Laine
[43:18] 8. Like Someone In Love
Written-By – Van Heusen, Burke
[50:25] 9. Giant Steps
Written-By – John Coltrane
Credits:
Copyright (c) – Jazzland Recordings
Design – Rune Mortensen
Mixed By, Mastered By – Atle Aamodt
Photography By – Egil Hansen
Piano [Uncredited] – Bugge Wesseltoft
Tracklist:
[00:00] 1. Darn That Dream
Written-By – Van Heusen
[07:58] 2. My Foolish Heart
Written By – Washington/Young
[13:16] 3. How High The Moon
Written-By – Morgan Lewis
[20:00] 4. Moon River
Written-By – Henry Mancini
[25:52] 5. Chicken Feathers
Written-By – Steve Kuhn
[32:48] 6. Lament
Written-By – J.J. Johnson
[38:14] 7. We'll Be Together Again
Written By – Fischer/Laine
[43:18] 8. Like Someone In Love
Written-By – Van Heusen, Burke
[50:25] 9. Giant Steps
Written-By – John Coltrane
Credits:
Copyright (c) – Jazzland Recordings
Design – Rune Mortensen
Mixed By, Mastered By – Atle Aamodt
Photography By – Egil Hansen
Piano [Uncredited] – Bugge Wesseltoft
Jazz a Vienne 2004
Bugge Wesseltoft - keyboards
Dhafer Youssef - vocals, oud, percussion
Jonas Lonna - DJ
Ole Morten Vaagan - bass
Andreas Bye - drums
Rikard G...
Jazz a Vienne 2004
Bugge Wesseltoft - keyboards
Dhafer Youssef - vocals, oud, percussion
Jonas Lonna - DJ
Ole Morten Vaagan - bass
Andreas Bye - drums
Rikard Gensollen - percussion
+ Erik Truffaz - trumpet ( on last track )
Frick - 0:00
He Is ? - 7:07
Sunday - 18:33
Trio ( improvisation ) - 27:20
Film Ing. - 31:54
Oh Ye ( feat Erik Truffaz ) - 43:15
+ special guest Erik Truffaz - trumpet
Jazz a Vienne 2004
Bugge Wesseltoft - keyboards
Dhafer Youssef - vocals, oud, percussion
Jonas Lonna - DJ
Ole Morten Vaagan - bass
Andreas Bye - drums
Rikard Gensollen - percussion
+ Erik Truffaz - trumpet ( on last track )
Frick - 0:00
He Is ? - 7:07
Sunday - 18:33
Trio ( improvisation ) - 27:20
Film Ing. - 31:54
Oh Ye ( feat Erik Truffaz ) - 43:15
+ special guest Erik Truffaz - trumpet
Tracklist:
[00:00] 1. Darn That Dream
Written-By – Van Heusen
[07:58] 2. My Foolish Heart
Written By – Washington/Young
[13:16] 3. How High The Moon
Written-By – Morgan Lewis
[20:00] 4. Moon River
Written-By – Henry Mancini
[25:52] 5. Chicken Feathers
Written-By – Steve Kuhn
[32:48] 6. Lament
Written-By – J.J. Johnson
[38:14] 7. We'll Be Together Again
Written By – Fischer/Laine
[43:18] 8. Like Someone In Love
Written-By – Van Heusen, Burke
[50:25] 9. Giant Steps
Written-By – John Coltrane
Credits:
Copyright (c) – Jazzland Recordings
Design – Rune Mortensen
Mixed By, Mastered By – Atle Aamodt
Photography By – Egil Hansen
Piano [Uncredited] – Bugge Wesseltoft
Jazz a Vienne 2004
Bugge Wesseltoft - keyboards
Dhafer Youssef - vocals, oud, percussion
Jonas Lonna - DJ
Ole Morten Vaagan - bass
Andreas Bye - drums
Rikard Gensollen - percussion
+ Erik Truffaz - trumpet ( on last track )
Frick - 0:00
He Is ? - 7:07
Sunday - 18:33
Trio ( improvisation ) - 27:20
Film Ing. - 31:54
Oh Ye ( feat Erik Truffaz ) - 43:15
+ special guest Erik Truffaz - trumpet
Jens Christian Bugge Wesseltoft (born 1 February 1964) is a Norwegian jazz musician, pianist, composer and producer, son of the jazz guitarist Erik Wesseltoft.
Career
Wesseltoft was born in Porsgrunn. After high school in Skien, where he was involved in the school brass band and dance orchestras, he became a professional musician in 1983 only 19 years old. By the age of 16, he joined a punk rock band, but the influence of the jazz guitarist father, stalked on him. After moving to his father in Oslo (1984), it was mostly music with roots in jazz that mattered, although he also worked as a back-up musician and producer for the pop and rock elite in Norway. He had originally intended to study music, but the gigs were too many, and therefore he never got any further formal musical education. Towards the end of the 1980s Bugge Wesseltoft was involved in a variety of pop, rock and jazz bands like the "U and Z", "Et Cetera" and most important the Oslo Groove Company, and he was recognised as a coming musical genius with a great talent for the piano. This led to collaborations within the Knut Riisnæs Quartet in 1989, and he was soon after contacted by Arild Andersen to join in on the commissioned work for Vossajazz - released on the album Sagn (1990) - and the follow up Arv (1993), and Jan Garbarek for his Molde Canticle (1990), a commission from the Moldejazz, released on the album I Took Up the Runes (1990).
I've already been to heaven So I might as well step down Up seems like a real good offer But I'm gonna have to turn it down Losing heart Wondering if it's worth saving Well at least what remains After it hits the pavement I just had to make sure You knew I was sincere Trains change They jump the tracks They almost always Switch back Once again it's just me The smoking empty shotgun shell So close to a dream you can't touch My very own version of hell Playing tables and gambling Bad hands of cards Running out of crosswalks Betting on the oddest odds I just had to make sure You knew I was sincere Trains change They jump the tracks They almost always Switch back I've changed I've jumped the tracks I almost always switch back I just had to make sure You knew I was sincere I've already been to heaven So they asked me to step down Up was a real good offer But I screwed up big and turned it down Lost heart Knowing it's not worth saving No usable remains After it hits the pavement I just had to make sure You knew I was sincere Trains change They jump the tracks They almost always Switch back I've changed I've jumped the tracks I almost always switch back Trains change They jump the tracks They almost always Switch back You've changed You've jumped the tracks You've almost always switched back And now I know for sure You knew I was sincere I just had to make sure You knew I was sincere I just had to make sure You knew I was sincere