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Bruno R

Bruno R: Ascensio

by Jerry D'Souza
July 25, 2003

Bruno Råberg’s third album as leader is firmly concerned with form. The bassist has played in bands of different stylistic pursuits, like Orange Then Blue, which threw everything from free form to mainstream jazz into the stewing pot; and with Eje Thelin, whose band swiped the caboodle from dixieland to free jazz. Here Råberg is contained. ...

Bruno R: Ascensio

by Dan McClenaghan
July 25, 2003

The bottom end is a big presence on Bruno Råberg's Ascensio, fitting for a bassist-led quartet... a solid, emphatic heartbeat for the rest of the band to contend with. Bassist Bruno Råberg, the Swedish-born Berklee educator, incorporated a foundation of Scandinavian folk tunes in his previous Orbis outing, Presence ; as he does here. ...

Presence

By Bruno R

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Released: 2000
Track listing: Runestones; Jaquemonti Birch; Procession; Sculpture II; Twin Spirits; Berg-Kirsti

Bruno R: Presence

by Jim Santella
June 1, 2000

The title track from bassist Bruno Råberg’s latest album lays down a melody upon which the trio improvises collectively. Thus, the composer’s theme maintains only a mere presence while the three artists “converse" on a common topic. Two other tracks place the trio in a free group improvisation mode, one is a traditional Swedish folk tune, ...

Orbis

By Bruno R

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Released: 1999
Track listing: Runes; Forest Star; Heart of Gold; Cape Light; Is This Tomorrow?; Signs of Love; Wings of Hope; Winds Above; Yellow Woods.

Bruno R: Orbis

by Jim Santella
August 1, 1999

Swedish bassist Bruno Råberg combines the best of both worlds: the folk music of his homeland with the modern mainstream jazz that he’s studied quite thoroughly since he was a youth. Råberg, who earned a bachelor’s degree in Jazz Studies from the New England Conservatory of Music in 1984 and now teaches at the Berklee College ...