Tellef Øgrim

Who is Tellef Øgrim?

Tellef Øgrim is a Norwegian fretless guitarist, composer and journalist.

He played in oboist Jan Wiese's band Bitihorn from 1976 and joined Ole Hedemann's Ung Pike Forsunnet in 1981. UPF released two albums. In 1985 Øgrim and vocalist formed the soul-rock band Duck Spin, releasing the group's only album Wake me when the Moon gets up the year after. In 1987 Øgrim released the jazz-rock album Libido with Henrik Hellstenius, Tore Eide and Inge Norum.

During the same period of time he wrote music for two theater plays staged by Piotr Cholodzinski.

In 2004 Øgrim released a CD containing improvisations for fretless electric guitar under the title Some Dodos Never Die and in 2007 the CD Wagon 8 was released on Curling Legs Records with Polish drummer Jacek Kochan, trombonist Dag Einar Eilertsen, Henrik Hellstenius and singer Anne Danielsen.

In 2008 Øgrim played on the free jazz CD Do I the In? where he played with Joe Fonda, Jacek Kochan and Franz Hautzinger. In 2010 he formed the music-live-video project Mugetuft with Peter Knudsen and Henrik Hellstenius and an improvisational trio with cello player Clementine Gasser and Jacek Kochan.