Nils Petter Molvær () also known as NPM (born 18 September 1960) is a Norwegian jazz trumpeter, composer, and record producer. He is considered a pioneer of future jazz, a genre that fuses jazz and electronic music, best showcased on his most commercially successful album, Khmer. Biography Molvær was born and raised on the island of Sula, Møre og Romsdal, Norway, and left at age nineteen to study on the Jazz program at Trondheim Musikkonservatorium (1980–82). He joined the bands Jazzpunkensemblet with Jon Eberson and Masqualero, alongside Arild Andersen, Jon Christensen and Tore Brunborg. Masqualero (named after a Wayne Shorter composition originally recorded by Miles Davis) recorded several albums for ECM Records, and Molvær recorded with other ECM artists before his 1997 debut solo album, Khmer. The record was a fusion of jazz, rock, electronic soundscapes, and hip-hop beats – and quite unlike the delicate "chamber jazz" typically associated with ECM. Molvær's muted trumpet sound, sometimes electronically processed, had an obvious debt to Miles Davis's work of the 1970s and 1980s, but without being a slavish copy. For the first time, ECM released singles: "Song of Sand", backed with three remixes, and "Ligotage". In 2000, a second album followed, Solid Ether, after which Molvær left ECM. He has recorded several albums since, and has also produced film and theater music. He often works with guitarist Eivind Aarset. He has also played with Tabla Beat Science, created by Zakir Hussain and Bill Laswell. Honors 1996: Kongsberg Jazz Award 1997: Spellemannprisen in the Open class 1998: Gammleng-prisen in the class Jazz 1996: Kongsberg Jazz Award 2000: Spellemannprisen in the Open class 2003: Buddyprisen 2005: Spellemannprisen in the Open class Discography In Masqualero 1983: Masqualero 1985: Bande À Part 1987: Aero 1990: Re-Enter Solo 1997: Khmer 1998: Khmer: The Remixes (promo only) 1998: Ligotage (EP) 2000: Solid Ether (feat. Sidsel Endresen and others) 2001: Recoloured (remixes) 2002: NP3 2004: Streamer (2002, live) 2005: Er 2005: Edy (soundtrack to the film by Guérin-Tillié) 2005: Remakes (remixes) 2005: An American Compilation (compilation) 2008: Re-Vision (OST outtakes merged into an album) 2009: Hamada 2011: Baboon Moon 2014: Switch 2016: Buoyancy 2021: Stitches Collaborations 1990: So I Write, with Sidsel Endresen, Django Bates, Jon Christensen 1995: Hastening Westward, with Robyn Schulkowsky 1997: Small Labyrinths (recorded 1994), in Marilyn Mazur's Future Song 2005: Electra, in Arild Andersen Group 2008: Corps Electriques, with Hector Zazou/KatieJane Garside, Bill Rieflin, Lone