Svein Erik Martinsen
Guitar Player/ Singer
Squeezes his guitar quite rightly
-BluesCritic.com
Norwegian guitarist and singer Svein Erik Martinsen is a versatile musician with a professional career as frontman, sideman, composer and music teacher.
Educated from the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen.
Bands, artists and projects
I play or have played with:

Prima Vista Social Club
From Oslo, Norway, now touring the world!
Get ready for THE most hard swingin’ band on the planet!

The Milkmen
Groovy blues and unmodern jazz duo.
Hermund Nygård: Drums, bass, banjo, harmonica, washboard, vocal, mandolin
Svein Erik Martinsen: Guitar, Vocal
Hermund Nygård: Drums, bass, banjo, harmonica, washboard, vocal, mandolin
Svein Erik Martinsen: Guitar, Vocal

Hilde Louise Asbjørnsen
Accompanied by some of the contry’s hottest jazz musicians, Hilde Louise has released 10 solo albums, and toured Norway and Scandinavia in several rounds since 2002.

Jazzetaten
Local band from Ås featuring:
Daniel Lind – Double Bass
Terje Evensen – Drums
Lorenzo Nardocci – Piano
Svein Erik Martinsen – Guitar/Vocals

Steven Wilson Quartet
The Quartet is a rock-and-roll band made up of Martin Steffensen, Svein Erik Martinsen Ånestad, Morten Solnørdal Urfjell and Steven Wilson.

The Hummingbirds
Et band som spiller og synger de fineste låtene fra mellom 1950 og 1970. Og som høres og ser ut som backingbandet til Dionne Warwick anno ca 1964.

Kaba Orchestra
12-piece mini big band with some of the best and hardest swingin’ jazz musicians in Norway.

Julie Dahle Aagård
Extraordinary soulful and groovy singer.

Mads Mathias
“Mads Mathias is one of jazz’s new world-class talents: his sexy sax playing, joyful stage charisma, and swinging, unique voice, not to mention his original melodies. I always wished I could sing like that!”
-Svend Asmussen, legendary jazz violinist.
-Svend Asmussen, legendary jazz violinist.

Thorbjørn Risager
This guy is a singer’s singer, but maybe born too late, because if he had been doing this job in the ’50s and ’60s and lived in the USA, surely he would be a legend by now. (Simon Redley in the legendary British magazine Blues And Soul)