Why I love jazz? I grew up with it, and it's always appealed to me. Simple as that. I was first exposed to jazz when I was about 6 years old. My grandfather had Kind of Blue on vinyl and I sat and listened to it pretending to play the trumpet. I started playing bass when I was 10 years old... I took lessons and began to play with some locals. I play in two jazz quartets: re:Group, my main project. We play music inspired by people like Nils Petter Molvaer, E.S.T, Portico Quartet and John Scofield, kind of a blend of new modern jazz and hard-hitting grooves! The other one is the TUP jazz quartet, we play in the more "mainstream" realm, at caf��s, resturants and stuff like that. We Play mostly standards, with our own little twists: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGQOC2ATPTE Some of my influences consists of: Dave Holland Reid Anderson Ron Carter Paul Chambers John Patitucci Charles Mingus Stanley Clarke Ray Brown Ingebrigt H?ker Flaten