Frode Thingnæs

Frode Thingnæs (20 March 1940 - 15 November 2012) was a Norwegian jazz composer, arranger, conductor, trombone player, married on 2 June 1979 to actor and drama teacher Marianne Mørk (b. 16 May 1953) and they gave birth to the pianist Magnus Alexander Mørk Thingnæs (b. 1984), and Filmstudent, Maren Victoria Thingnæs. He formed the quintet Frode Thingnæs Quintet.