I thought I'd give some props to my uncle Bjorn Thoroddsen, who's an acclaimed jazz guitarist in Iceland and has been active in the jazz/fusion world both in Iceland and overseas for over 30 years. I've recently uploaded a bunch of videos from his career and I thought I'd share a few with the Org to start off the new year:

This is a song I'm not sure what's called but he played it on a Canadian TV show around the time when he did a gig with the Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra last year (2009):


Here's an older clip from a TV-show where Bjorn is playing with a lot of old-time Icelandic jazz musicians... this one is from 1991:



And here's a clip from 2008 where Bjorn Thoroddsen is playing with acclaimed Japanese jazz guitarist Kazumi Watanabe at a guitar festival in Iceland:

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I thought I'd add two more songs...

First off is a Django Reinhardt classic called "Swing 42". This time Bjorn is joined by Belgian jazz guitarist Philip Catherine:


And the second clip is an interpretation of an Icelandic folk melody:

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Wow, Your uncle's got some chops!!! Really Kool that he jammed with Kazumi, he's always been a favorite of mine! I'll have to check out more Thoroddsen now--Thanks for the videos!







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^^^ Amen on that.

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Holy shit, your uncle got skills, the only uncle of mine was a crack addict.