Paal Nilssen-Love discography

Paal Nilssen-Love (born December 24, 1974) is a Norwegian drummer active in the jazz and free jazz genres.

Paal Nilssen-Love discography
Studio albums92
EPs2
Live albums16
Compilation albums4

He has released two solo albums, and his portfolio includes Atomic, School Days, The Thing, Scorch Trio, Territory Band, FME, and various duo projects such as with reedmen Peter Brötzmann, Ken Vandermark, John Butcher, organist Nils Henrik Asheim and noise experimentalist Lasse Marhaug.

Solo

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2001 Sticks & Stones
  • Released: May 1, 2001
  • Label: Sofa (SOFA 505)
  • Format: CD
Recorded in Sofienberg Church
2005 27 Years Later
  • Released: 2005
  • Label: Utech (024)
  • Format: CD
Live at Moldejazz
2008 Miró
  • Released: 2010
  • Label: PNL (PNL007)
  • Format: CD
Live at "Nits De Musica" July 24, 2008 in Barcelona
2012 Chiapaneca
  • Released: 2012
  • Label: Bocian (BC-PNL)
  • Format: LP
Live in Mexico City
2015 News From The Junk Yard
  • Released: 2015
  • Label: PNL (PNL031)
  • Format: LP
Studio album

As band leader

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Townhouse Orchestra

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2005 Townorchestrahouse Live
2008 Belle Ville Live

Large Unit[1]

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2014 Erta Ale
  • Released: August, 2014
  • Label: PNL (PNL025)
  • Format: LP/CD
Live
2015 2015
  • Released: 2015
  • Label: PNL (PNL030)
  • Format: 2CD
Live
2016 Ana
  • Released: April 1, 2016
  • Label: PNL (PNL033)
  • Format: CD
Studio album

As co-leader or sideperson

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ADA (Peter Brötzmann, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Paal Nilssen-Love)

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2011 ADA
  • Released: 2011
  • Label: Self-released (ADA 001)
  • Format: CD
Live
2012 OTO
  • Released: 2013
  • Label: Self-released (ADA 002)
  • Format: CD
Live with Steve Noble
2011 OTO
  • Released: 2011
  • Label: Self-released (ADA 003)
  • Format: CD
Live with Pat Thomas

Adam Lane, Ken Vandermark, Magnus Boo, Paal Nilssen-Love

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2007 4 Corners Live

Anker

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2005 Six Row Barley
  • Released: 2005
  • Label: Utech Records (013)
  • Format: CD

Arto Lindsay, Paal Nilssen-Love

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2013 Scarcity
  • Released: 2013
  • Label: PNL (PNL020)
  • Format: CD
Live in Concert at Audio Rebel's Quintavant, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil July 2, 2013.

Atomic

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2001 Feet Music
  • Released: 2001
  • Label: Jazzland Rec/Universal (016 558-2)
  • Format: CD
2004 Boom Boom
  • Released: 2004
  • Label: Jazzland Rec/Universal (038 264-2)
  • Format: CD
2005 The Bikini Tapes
  • Released: 2005
  • Label: Jazzland Rec/Next Stop Distribusjon (987 154-0)
  • Format: 3CD
Live
2006 Happy New Ears
  • Released: 2006
  • Label: Jazzland Rec/Universal (987 655-4)
  • Format: CD
2008 Retrograde
  • Released: 2008
  • Label: Jazzland Rec/Universal (176 884-3)
  • Format: 3CD
2CD + Live CD
2010 Theater Tilters Vol. 1 Live
2010 Theater Tilters Vol. 2
  • Released: 2010
  • Label: Jazzland Rec/Universal (273 341-0)
  • Format: CD
Live
2011 Here Comes Everybody
2012 There's a Hole in the Mountain
2015 Lucidity

Atomic/School Days

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2004 Nuclear Assembly Hall
  • Released: 2004
  • Label: Okka Disk (OD12049)
  • Format: 2CD
2008 Distil
  • Released: 2008
  • Label: Okka Disk (OD12073)
  • Format: CD

Bjørnar Andresen, Svein Finnerud, Paal Nilssen-Love

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2000 Egne Hoder
  • Released: 2000
  • Label: Bp Records (bp 00008cd)
  • Format: CD

Boneshaker (Mars Williams, Paal Nilssen-Love, Kent Kessler)

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2012 Boneshaker
2014 Unusual Words
  • Released: 2014
  • Label: Soul What
2017 Thinking Out Loud
  • Released: 2017
  • Label: Trost Records
  • Format: CD
2019 Fake Music
  • Released: 2019
  • Label: Soul What

Bradford, Gjerstad, Håker Flaten, Nilssen-Love

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2008 Reknes
  • Released: 2009
  • Label: Circulasione Totale (CTCD11)
  • Format: CD
Live at Moldejazz
2012 Kampen Live at Kampenjazz
Limited edition of 300 records

Bradford, Gjerstad, Nilssen-Love

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2010 Dragon
  • Released: 2012
  • Label: PNL (PNL014)
  • Format: CD
Live at Klub Dragon

Brötzmann, Michiyo Yagi, Nilssen-Love

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2008 Head On
  • Released: 2008
  • Label: Idiolect (ID-02)
  • Format: CD

Brötzmann, Swell, Nilssen-Love

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2015 Krakow Nights
  • Released: October 2015
  • Label: Not Two Records (MW937-2)
  • Format: CD

Bugge Wesseltoft's New Conceptions Of Jazz

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1998 Sharing
  • Released: 1998
  • Label: Jazzland Rec/Universal (538 259-2)
  • Format: CD

Calling Signals

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2006 Dreams in Dreams
  • Released: 2006
  • Label: FMR (CD177-0805)
  • Format: CD

Christer Bothen Acoustic Ensemble

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2002 7 Pieces
  • Released: 2002
  • Label: LJ Records (LJCD 5230)
  • Format: CD

Circulasione Totale Orchestra

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1992 Enten Eller
1998 Borealis
  • Released: 1998
  • Label: (RCD1091)
  • Format: CD
2008 Open Port
2009 Bandwidth
  • Released: November 2, 2009
  • Label: Rune Grammofon (RCD 2089)
  • Format: 3CD

Crimetime Orchestra

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2005 Life is a beautiful monster

Didrik Ingvaldsen

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2000 History & Movement
  • Released: 2000
  • Label: Da-Da (4CD)
  • Format: CD

Double Tandem (Ab Baars, Ken Vandermark, Paal Nilssen-Love)

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2011 Cement
  • Released: 2012
  • Label: PNL (PNL013)
  • Format: CD
2012 OX
  • Released: October 15, 2012
  • Label: dEN Records (010)
  • Format: CD

Element

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1996 Element
  • Released: 1996
  • Label: Turn Left Prod (001)
  • Format: CD
1999 Shaman
  • Released: 1999
  • Label: Bp Records (bp 99001cd)
  • Format: CD

Fireroom

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2008 Broken Music[2]
  • Released: April 8, 2008
  • Label: Atavistic (61183)
  • Format: CD

FME (Free Music Ensemble)

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2002 Live at Glenn Miller café
  • Released: 2002
  • Label: Okka Disk (ODL 10007)
  • Format: CD
Live
2004 Underground
  • Released: 2004
  • Label: Okka Disk (OD 12051)
  • Format: CD
2005 Cuts
  • Released: 2005
  • Label: Okka Disk (OD 12061)
  • Format: CD
2006 Montage
  • Released: 2006
  • Label: Okka Disk (OD 12071)
  • Format: CD

Fred Lonberg-Holm, Paal Nilssen-Love

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2012 You Can Be Mine
  • Released: April 2015
  • Label: Bocian Records (bc fp)
  • Format: LP, Limited Edition
Recorded 31 August 2012 at Rattlesnake Studio, Chicago.

Frode Gjerstad, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Amit Sen, Paal Nilssen-Love

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2007 The Cello Quartet
  • Released: 2007
  • Label: FMR Records (FMRCD 212-0906)
  • Format: CD
Live

Frode Gjerstad and Paal Nilssen-Love

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2007 Day Before One
  • Released: 2007
  • Label: Tyyfus (4)
  • Format: LP
2008 Gromka
  • Released: 2010
  • Label: Not Two Records (MW 839-2)
  • Format: CD
2008 Side By Side
  • Released: March 2012
  • Label: CIMP (CIMP 388)
  • Format: CD

Frode Gjerstad Trio

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2001 The Blessing Light: For John Stevens
  • Released: 2001
  • Label: Cadence Jazz (CJR 1126)
  • Format: CD
2002 Last First
  • Released: 2002
  • Label: Falcata-Galia (FALC-0007/0079)
  • Format: CD
2003 Sharp Knives cut Deeper
  • Released: 2003
  • Label: Splasc(h) (CDH850.2)
  • Format: CD
Frode Gjerstad trio + Peter Brötzmann
2004 St. Louis[3]
  • Released: January 12, 2004
  • Label: FMR (122)
  • Format: CD
2006 Mothers And Fathers
  • Released: 2006
  • Label: Circulasione Totale (CTCD 8)
  • Format: CD
2007 Nothing is Forever
  • Released: 2007
  • Label: Circulasione Totale (CTCD 10)
  • Format: CD

Ingoma

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2000 Ingoma
  • Released: 2000
  • Label: Sheer Sound (SSCD 053)
  • Format: CD

Joe McPhee / Paal Nilssen-Love

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2008 Tomorrow Came Today

John Butcher / Paal Nilssen-Love

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2006 Concentric
  • Released: 2006
  • Label: Clean Feed (CF 067CD)
  • Format: CD

Jon Eberson, Bjørnar Andresen, Paal Nilssen-Love

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2001 Mind the gap
  • Released: 2001
  • Label: Curling Legs (CD 66)
  • Format: CD

Ken Vandermark / Paal Nilssen-Love

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2003 Dual Pleasure[4]
2004 Dual Pleasure 2[5]
2006 Seven
2006 Chicago Volume

Kornstad trio

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2001 Space Available
2004 Live from Kongsberg
  • Kornstad trio + Axel Dörner
  • Live

Lars Göran Ullander trio

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2005 Live at Glenn Miller Café Live

Lasse Marhaug / Paal Nilssen-Love

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2005 Personal Hygiene
  • Released: 2005
  • Label: Utech Records (UR-005)
  • Format: CD
Live
2007 Stalk
  • Released: May, 2007
  • Label: PNL (PNL001)
  • Format: CD
2011 No Combo
  • Released: June 20, 2011
  • Label: Pica Disk (PICA028), PNL (PNL009)
  • Format: LP, Single Sided, Limited Edition
Live

Magnus Broo / Paal Nilssen-Love

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2008 Game
  • Released: 2008
  • Label: PNL (PNL003)
  • Format: CD
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2004/2007 Collaborations

Masahiko Satoh, Paal Nilssen-Love

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2014 Spring Snow
  • Released: May, 2014
  • Label: PNL Records (PNL 023)
  • Format: CD

Mats Gustafsson, Paal Nilssen-Love, Mesele Asmamaw

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2010 Baro 101
  • Released: 2012
  • Label: Terp Records (AIS-19)
  • Format: CD

Michiyo Yagi, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, Paal Nilssen-Love

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2006 Live! at the SuperDeluxe
  • Released: August, 2006
  • Label: Idiolect/Bomba Records (BOM26002)
  • Format: CD
Live

Michiyo Yagi, Joe McPhee, Lasse Marhaug, Paal Nilssen-Love

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2013 Soul Stream
  • Released: December, 2015
  • Label: PNL (PNL032)
  • Format: CD
Recorded at GOK Sound, Tokyo on January 21, 2013.

Michiyo Yagi, Lasse Marhaug, Paal Nilssen-Love

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2011 Angular Mass
  • Released: December, 2015
  • Label: PNL (PNL028)
  • Format: CD
Recorded at GOK Sound, Tokyo on February 8, 2011.

Nils Henrik Asheim / Paal Nilssen-Love

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2005 Pipes & Bones
  • Released: March, 2005
  • Label: Utech Records (UR-006)
  • Format: CD
2007 Late Play
  • Released: 2007
  • Label: PNL (PNL002)
  • Format: CD

No spagetti edition

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2001 Listen... And Tell Me What It Was
  • Released: July 7, 2001
  • Label: Sofa (SOFA506)
  • Format: CD

OFFONOFF

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2007 Clash
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2007 Slap and Tickle

Original Silence

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2007 The First Original Silence
2008 The Second Original Silence

Paal Nilssen-Love, Anders Hana

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2005 AM/FM
  • Released: 2005
  • Label: Utech Records (UR-023)
  • Format: CD

Paal Nilssen-Love, Håkon Kornstad

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2004 Schlinger[6]

Paal Nilssen-Love, Massimo Pupillo, Lasse Marhaug

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2011 You're Next
  • Released: October 1, 2012
  • Label: Bocian Records (BC-PML)
  • Format: LP

Paal Nilssen-Love, Mats Gustafsson

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2002 I Love It When You Snore
2007 Splatter

Paal Nilssen-Love, Michiyo Yagi, Peter Brötzmann

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2008 Volda
  • Released: January, 2010
  • Label: Idiolect (ID-03)
  • Format: CD

The Peter Brötzmann Chicago tentet

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2005 Be Music, Night
  • Released: 2005
  • Label: Okka Disk (OD 12059)
  • Format: CD
2007 American Landscapes 1
  • Released: 2007
  • Label: Okka Disk (OD12067)
  • Format: CD
Live
2007 American Landscapes 2
  • Released: 2007
  • Label: Okka Disk (OD12068)
  • Format: CD
Live
2007 At Molde 2007
  • Released: 2007
  • Label: Okka Disk (OD12072)
  • Format: CD
Live
2009 3 Nights in Oslo
  • Released: 2010
  • Label: Smalltown Superjazzz (STSJ197CD)
  • Format: CD
Live

Peter Brötzmann / Paal Nilssen-Love

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2008 Sweet Sweat
2008 Woodcuts

Peter Brötzmann, Paal Nilssen-Love and Mats Gustafsson

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2007 The Fat Is Gone

Peter Janson, Jonas Kullhammar, Paal Nilssen-Love

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2002 Live at Glenn Miller café
  • Released: 2002
  • Label: Ayler Records (AylCD-012)
  • Format: CD

Pocket Corner

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1999 Cosmic Ballet
  • Released: 1999
  • Label: Bp Records (bp 99000lp)
  • Format: 12"
1997 By-Music
  • Released: 1997
  • Label: Da-Da (3CD)
  • Format: CD
1996 Rede for Hugg
  • Released: 1996
  • Label: Da-Da (2CD)
  • Format: CD
1995 Slutt
  • Released: 1995
  • Label: Da-Da (1CD)
  • Format: CD

(((Powerhouse Sound)))

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2007 Oslo/Chicago: (((Breaks)))
  • Released: March, 2007
  • Label: Atavistic (ALP1772CD)
  • Format: 2CD

Quintet

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1999 March 28, 1999
  • Released: 1999
  • Label: Bp Records (bp 99002cd)
  • Format: CD

Rodrigo Amado, Kent Kessler, Paal Nilssen-Love

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2006 Teatro[7]
  • Released: 2006
  • Label: European Echoes (001)
  • Format: CD
2008 The Abstract Truth
  • Released: 2009
  • Label: European Echoes (003)
  • Format: CD

Samsa'Ra

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2005 Samsa'Ra[8]
  • Released: April 11, 2005
  • Label: Jazzland Rec. (038 265-2)
  • Format: CD
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1997 Song
  • Released: 1997
  • Label: Nor CD (NOR-CD 9720)
  • Format: CD

School Days

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2000 Crossing Division
  • Released: 2000
  • Label: Okka Disk (OD12037)
  • Format: CD
2002 The music of Norman Howard
  • Released: 2002
  • Label: Anagram Records (ANA LP 001)
  • Format: LP
  • Side A: The Thing with guests
  • Side B: School Days with Mats Gustafsson
2002 In Our Times
  • Released: 2002
  • Label: Okka Disk (OD12041)
  • Format: CD

Scorch Trio

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2002 Scorch Trio[9]
  • Released: February 18, 2002
  • Label: Rune Grammofon (RCD 2025)
  • Format: CD, 2LP
2004 Luggumt[10]
  • Released: October 11, 2004
  • Label: Rune Grammofon (RCD 2040)
  • Format: CD, 2LP
2008 Brolt[11]

Sten Sandell Trio

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2001 Standing Wave
  • Released: 2001
  • Label: Sofa (SOFA 504)
  • Format: CD
2004 Flat Iron
  • Released: 2004
  • Label: Sofa (SOFA 514)
  • Format: CD
2007 Oval
  • Released: January, 2007
  • Label: Intakt Records (Intakt CD 122)
  • Format: CD
2007 Strokes
  • Released: June, 2007
  • Label: Clean Feed (CF082CD)
  • Format: CD
Sten Sandell Trio + John Butcher

Steve Hubback / Paal Nilssen-Love

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2004 Off the Map
  • Released: 2004
  • Label: FMR (FMRCD 138-1203)
  • Format: CD

Terrie Ex & Paal Nilson-Love

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2011 Hurgu!
  • Released: 2011
  • Label: PNL (PNL012)
  • Format: CD
Terrie Ex & Paal Nilson-Love

Territory Band

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2004 Map Theory
  • Released: 2004
  • Label: Okka Disk (OD12060)
  • Format: 2CD
Territory Band-3
2005 Company Switch
  • Released: 2005
  • Label: Okka Disk (OD12070)
  • Format: 2CD
Territory Band-4
2006 New Horse For The White House
  • Released: 2006
  • Label: Okka Disk (OD12080)
  • Format: 3CD
Territory Band-5
2007 Collide
  • Released: 2007
  • Label: Okka Disk (OD12090)
  • Format: CD
Territory Band-6 with Fred Anderson

The Thing

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2000 The Thing
  • Released: 2000
  • Label: Crazy Wisdom (CW001)
  • Format: CD
2001 She Knows...
  • Released: 2001
  • Label: Crazy Wisdom (CW006)
  • Format: CD
as The Thing with Joe McPhee
2004 Garage
2005 Live at Blå Live
2006 Action Jazz
2007 Immediate Sound as The Thing with Ken Vandermark
2008 Now And Forever Box set containing The Thing, She Knows..., a new improv session Gluttony and a live DVD Live at Øya
2009 Bag It!
2009 Shinjuku Crawl as The Thing With Otomo Yoshihide
2013 Boot!
  • Released: November 12, 2013
  • Label: The Thing (TTRCD001)
  • Format: CD
2015 Shake
  • Released October 30, 2015
  • Label The Thing (TTRCD005)
  • Format: CD

See also The Music of Norman Howard, an album by School Days and The Thing.

Two Bands and a Legend

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2005 Sounds Like A Sandwich
  • as The Thing with Cato Salsa Experience and Joe McPhee
  • EP
2007 Two Bands And A Legend as Two Bands and a Legend
2007 I See You Baby
  • as Two Bands and a Legend
  • EP

Trygve Seim

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2000 Different Rivers
  • Released: 2000
  • Label: ECM (1744 159 521-2)
  • Format: CD

Wunderkammer

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2002 Today I Cannot Hear Music
  • Released: August 26, 2002
  • Label: HoneyMilk Records (HONEY06)
  • Format: CD

Zim Ngqawana

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1999 Zimology
  • Released: 1999
  • Label: Sheer Sound (SSCD 038)
  • Format: CD

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1995 Jazz I Timeglass Vol.1
  • Released: 1995
  • Label: Stavanger Konserthus (1995)
  • Format: CD
2002 Money Will Ruin Everything[12]
  • Released: November 10, 2003
  • Label: Rune Grammofon (RCD 2032)
  • Format: 2CD
Scorch Trio
2006 Until Human Voices Wake Us And We Drown[13]
  • Released: April 24, 2006
  • Label: Rune Grammofon (RLP 2050)
  • Format: 5x 10" vinyl
Scorch Trio
2007 Runeology 3[14] Scorch Trio

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References

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General
  • "Paal Nilssen-Love discography". paalnilssen-love.com. Retrieved 2008-09-13.
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