Honors
- Jazznytt musician poll 1967
- Buddyprisen 1967, from the Norwegian Jazz Forum
- Drummer of the Year 1975, by the European Jazz Federation
- 1976 he made the first record under his own name, "No Time for Time" with his young colleague Pål Thowsen, and won the Spelleman award for this (1977)
- Spellemannprisen three times with Masqualero (1983, 1986 and 1991)
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