Mark O'Leary Jon Christensen

  Mark O'Leary performed several concerts in various bands with iconic Norwegian drummer Jon       Christensen,  the house drummer on the ECM record label.

Jon Christensen was a mentor to Mark O'Leary.

After one concert at Triskel Arts Centre in Cork, Mark was talking to some family friends

in the foyer after the concert, which was refulgent with serious ECM afficionados, many with extensive

ECM vinyl collections, as Mark was mid conversation, Jon Christensen emerged from the hall and patted Mark on the back and in a stentorian voice intimated, "The music we played in their tonight, that's the kind of music I'm into." Christensen was not a man to afford praise easily.



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