Svein Erik Martinsen

“Hot N Spicy is an eminent modern string trio. ”

-Svend Asmussen

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

Groovy blues and unmodern jazz duo.

Hermund Nygård: Drums, bass, banjo, harmonica, washboard, vocal, mandolin

Svein Erik Martinsen: Guitar, Vocal

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.

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

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

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.

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

Extraordinary soulful and groovy singer.

“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.

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)