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Jorn Swart

Jorn Swart is a Brooklyn-based pianist, composer, and bandleader of Malnoia, a groundbreaking piano trio with viola and bass clarinet.

About Me

Jorn Swart is a pianist, composer, and arranger, currently living and performing in NYC. The Dutch pianist's refined playing and emotive compositions have garnered him much recognition, both in the USA and in Europe. His latest CD Malnoia is an unorthodox project that mixes jazz and chamber music. The album was released in 2017 on Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records and was critically acclaimed. In January 2018 the trio presented the album in a series of CD-presentations in the Netherlands, and made an appearance on national television in the TV-show Vrije Geluiden. In April of that year, the group performed in Egypt in Cairo and at the legendary Library of Alexandria and in June they performed at the Blue Note Jazz Festival in New York City.

“Seamless interplay of unusual sonorities” — Downbeat Magazine ☆☆☆☆

“Malnoia is brimming with cryptic gifts and Delphic designs that manage to fascinate and confound.” — Dan Bilawsky, All About Jazz ☆☆☆☆