Jazz Articles about Filip Augustson

About Filip Augustson

Album Review

Fredrik Nordström: Big Band Stories

Read "Big Band Stories" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
February 28, 2024

To describe this record as an intimate big band recording is not to state an oxymoron. Saxophonist, composer and arranger Fredrik Nordström has taken this large-scale format (17 musicians) and made a very personal statement. Big Band Stories is a bit of a departure for the Swedish saxophonist best known for his work in quintet, octet and his Dolores Quartet which released Dolores: One (2021) and Dolores: Two (2021) on his own Bluenord Record label. Nordström did produce ...

Album Review

Filip Augustson: Viva Black

Read "Viva Black" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
May 12, 2015

Swedish double bassist Filip Augustson leads a reasonable personal life and career. He recorded his debut album as a leader about ten years ago, Ich Bin Filip Augustson (Moserobie, 2004) and has collaborated with vibes player Mattias Ståhl's Ståhls Blå, sax players Fredrik Ljungkvist and Fredrik Nordström and keyboard player Mats Öberg. Augustson is a happily married father of two small children, and lives in a nice middle-class neighborhood in the suburbs of Stockholm. Viva Black ...