Norbert Susemihl Jazz & Blues Band

Born 1956 in Hamburg/Germany, Norbert Susemihl began to play the trumpet at the age of 15. In 1978 and 1979 he made his first trips to New Orleans. In 1980 he became a member of the New Orleans Musicians Union and he lived there for a year to study New Orleans Jazz and the lifestyle and culture that made and shaped this music. He has been a part-time resident of the Crescent City ever since, playing regularly with all of the local musicians, from the older traditional musicians to the younger generation players, covering all styles of New Orleans Music. He has also made recordings in New Orleans with musicians like Willie Humphrey, Father Al Lewis, Wanda Rouzan, CoCoMo Joe, Jason Marsalis, Louis Ford and Kerry Lewis. Besides playing with his own bands, Norbert is also regularly touring and performing as guest with different bands in Europe, and in New Orleans, performing on many festivals the continent over. He is considered today as one of the leading trumpeters in the New Orleans style.

Chris was born in 1978 in Melbourne, Australia. He began playing music at the age of 8 playing piano. When going to high school Chris started the saxophone. After three years he heard the clarinet and was inspired to play clarinet. In his early years he played professionally with Allan Browne New Orleans Rascals, The Yarra Yarra jazz band and The Hoodangers. This gave him a good grounding in playing early jazz music. Chris Tanner came to live in Denmark in the summer of 2009. He had been coming to Europe to play music for the last 10 years. Now living here he has played with many musicians here like Jacob Fischer, Hugo Rasmussen and Ole Fessor Lingren. Chris has also started his own band Chris Tanner’s Rifftet.

Hans Ingelstam, born 1944 in Stockholm, Sweden, was as a teenager one of the leading youngsters driving the New Orleans revival wave in Stockholm, together with well-known personalities like Orange Kellin and Lars Edegran. At the age of 15 he played a couple of songs with George Lewis in Stockholm, and since then he has played with many visiting American musicians like Albert Nicholas, Bud Freeman, Doc Cheatham and Peanuts Hucko. He has played in leading Swedish bands like Jazz Doctors, Vieux Carre and Jazzin' Jacks, travelling all over the world including 14 tours in USA. Currently, Hans shares his time mainly with Norbert Susemihl, Dixie For You (Danish and Swedish) and his own Quartet.

Born 21. February 1984 in Sweden, Sven Erik Lundeqvist is an outstanding pianoplayer and musician. Educated at the Malmo Music Conservarory, his musical talent and swing is on the same level as the great legends of Jazz Piano.
He has a very wide stilistic span in the gengre. He joined Norbert Susemihl Jazz & Blues Band as regular member in 2022.

Born in Aarhus in 1978, he started playing e-bass when 12 years old, and contrabass at 19. Today he is playing a rich variety of music, but primary jazz and crossover-projects and also some classical concerts. Jens has been part of over 30 CD productions between 2004 and 2015, and has written music in different genres for many of them. He has been educated at the classical conservatory in Odense, and he has also been teaching in ensemble playing. Jens Kristian Andersen is a great talent on contrabass and an innovative composer.

In spite of his young age (born 1990) Niclas Bardeleben is a very experienced and most accomplished drummer who has won wide recognition amongst critics and fellow musicians. Kjeld Frandsen, the jazz critic at the Danish national daily newspaper Berlingske, stated: "Problems were not his field. He played totally effortlessly - with fine nuances and a fantastic overview". And after playing with Niclas, the Grammy Award winning US trumpeter Brian Lynch stated: "Niclas is going to be one of the best drummers on the scene very quickly". Niclas has been the house drummer of Copenhagen's legendary Jazzhus Montmartre since the reopening in May 2010. He has performed for the Danish royal family on several occasions, and has appeared with such artists as Gino Vannelli(Canada), David Sanborn (USA), Niels Lan Doky (DK) Chris Minh Doky (Denmark), Didier Lockwood (France), Pierre Boussaguet (France), Alice Ricciardi (Italy), Brian Lynch (USA), Paolo Russo (Italy), Jesper Lundgaard (Denmark), Gerard Presencer (U.K.)

Torstein Ellingsen was born 1966 in Oslo, Norway. As a kid he played piano and cornet, changing to drum set in 1980. For many years he was a member of Caledonia Jazzband, that played on many jazz festivals in Scandinavia, and a.o. recorded with Norbert Susemihl in1991. Since 1999 Torstein has played with the Magnolia Jazzband and has been touring in Europe with such greats as Topsy Chapman and Lillian Boutté. Torstein has also made four recordings with the band. Regarded as the leading New Orleans jazz and gospel drummer in Norway, Torstein is also involved in other active bands that play blues, funk and soul jazz (The Real Thing), and crooner jazz (The Sinatra Songbook). Torstein has collaborated with many of Scandinavia’s leading traditional jazz artists, including Morten Gunnar Larsen, Georg Reiss and Orange Kellin.

Morten graduated from the Norwegian Acadamy of Music in 1978, having specialized in classic ragtime and early jazz piano, with emphasis on Scott Joplin, Jelly Roll Morton, Eubie Blake, and Louis M. Gottschalk. He recorded his first solo album in 1975 for which he received the ‘Spellemannsprisen’ award (the Norwegian Grammy). He has been a regular member of: Magnolia Jazz Band, Ytre Suloens Jassensemble and The Norwegian Rhythm Kings, and has toured with the New Orleans show One Mo’ Time, where he was also Musical Director. Morten is leading his own Orphelia Ragtime Orchestra and he has also created several musical programs such as Memories of Eubie, based on Eubie Blake’s music, excerpts from Joplin’s Treemonisha, and , in collaboration with American actor/playwright Vernel Bagneris, Jelly Roll-The Music and the Man, which played a highly successful Off Broadway run, receiving two Off Broadway awards and gaining Morten an ‘Obie’ for his role as solo pianist and musical director. He has been widely touring Europe and America, also as a featured soloist.