Career
At the same time, he was central contributor to Vossajazz, with the commissioned work to Bergen Big Band Kuria suite. Kristiansen led the "Monk Memorial" series on the Kongsberg Jazz Festival (1987) og Nattjazz (1989), and led a Big Band on the album Monk Moods. He performed the show "A tribute to Monk" at the Oslo Jazz Festival 1997.
In 2005 he released the album Blues Foreign Ell with his own Knut Kristiansen Trio, and in 2016 the album Kuria Suite was released.