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EIVIND OPSVIK OVERSEAS

Video to "BREATH OF BARK " from Overseas III (LLCD003) 2008

Excerpts from Overseas II (FSNT 219CD) 2005
all compositions by E.Opsvik

Tony Malaby - tenor saxophone
Loren Stillman - alto saxophone
Jacob Sacks - piano, celeste, wurlitzer
Craig Taborn - organ, celeste, wurlitzer
Kenny Wollesen - drums
Jeff Davis - drums
Eivind Opsvik - bass

PLANNED FUTURE
MARITIME SAFETY
TILT OF TIMBER
STILL THE TIGER TOWN (complete version)

Excerpts from Overseas (FSNT 146CD) 2003
all compositions by E. Opsvik

Tony Malaby - tenor saxophone
Loren Stillman - alto saxophone
Jason Rigby - soprano saxophone, bass clarinet
Jacob Sacks - piano
Craig Taborn - hammond C3 organ
Wells Hanley - piano, fender rhodes
Gerald Cleaver - drums
Jeff Davis - drums
Dan Weiss - tabla, kanjira, framedrum
Eivind Opsvik - bass

REDFORD
INDIAN SUMMER
OUICKSTEP

Release Concert for Overseas III (Loyal Label LLCD03), Nublu, NYC May 2008
with Malaby, Wollesen, Sacks

Various NYC Live Recordings of OVERSEAS:

55bar May 2005 (cd release for Overseas II)
with Malaby, Taborn, Sacks, Wollesen
KAPP DET GODE HÅP
PUNCHBALL

Nublu December 2002
with Malaby, Cleaver, Sacks, Weiss
REDFORD

55Bar September 2003
with Stillman, Malaby, Cleaver, Sacks
UNDERSEAS

TONY MALABY'S PALOMA RECIO
Live at Cornelia St Cafe

Nasheet Waits - drums
Ben Monder - guitar
Tony Malaby - tenor sax
Eivind Opsvik - bass

BEN GERSTEIN COLLECTIVE
Ben Gerstein - trombone/melodica
Jacob Garchik - computer
Dan Weiss - drums
Jacob Sacks - piano/melodica
Thomas Morgan & Eivind Opsvik - bass

Live at Bar 4, February 2006 1 & 2 & 3

Live at Zebulon, October 2004

OPSVIK & JENNINGS
studio and live collaboration with
guitarist/sound manipulator Aaron Jennings
involving various instruments, electronics
and other sound producing sources

THE PENDLER
from "Commuter Anthems" (2007) on Rune Grammofon

THE LAST COUNTRY VILLAGE

check out the opsvik & jennings website >>

EIVIND OPSVIK SOLO
Eivind Opsvik - upright bass

TONE COLLECTOR
Tony Malaby - tenor sax
Jeff Davis - drumset
Eivind Opsvik - upright bass

from the CD "Tone Collector"
on Jazzaway Records

MATCHBOX
LIVE AT KOZE LOUNGE w Ben Gerstein

THE UP
Jonathan Moritz - tenor sax
Ben Gerstein - trombone
John Mclellan - drums
Eivind Opsvik - bass

I’m very excited about this new group.
These musicians have introduced
me to a new and beautiful concept
of improvised music. CD available >>

LIVE AT PROSPECT HOUSE, NYC, JAN 07
NOVEMBER 2005

KORNSTAD/OPSVIK
Haakon Kornstad - tenor sax
Russ Johnson - trumpet
RJ Miller - drums
Eivind Opsvik - bass

live from nublu, NYC (december 2003):
VILLA L (kornstad)
HAPPY HOUSE (o.coleman)

one of the leading musicians on the blossoming
european avant-garde/electronica scene, tenor saxophonist
haakon kornstad (wibutee, tri-dim) teams up with fellow
norwegian opsvik and new yorkers johnson and miller
for some unpretentious jazz music. kornstad.com