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by Eyal Hareuveni
The Swedish trio of drummer Bengt Berger, saxophonist Jonas Knutsson and bassist Christian Spering has been working for 19 years, often hosting different musicians-friends. This versatile trio aesthetics blended natural elements of modern jazz with East-Asian and West-African rhythms and Swedish folk music. The trio was voted as the Swedish jazz group of the year more than ten times, but only recently decided to expand its format to a quartet, adding jazz guitarist Max Schultz, a favorite guest musician of ...
read moreBengt Berger: Beches Brew BIG + BAG
by Eyal Hareuveni
Swedish master drummer and bandleader Bengt Berger calls his own label Country & Eastern, a title that suggests a fresh mix of new modes of expression and impulses from some of the great musical traditions of the world. Berger claims that this label provides the best Al Dente music, and when it comes to his nine-piece Beches Brew BIG, an obvious reference to Miles Davis' Bitches Brew (Columbia, 1970), he is absolutely right. The Beches Brew ...
read morePer Tjernberg: Music Is My Salvation
by AAJ Italy Staff
Tre coordinate: Archie Sheep, James Brown e il Frank Zappa orchestrale. Dedicato al compositore Kjell Westling (1942-2010). Richiami e citazioni da Harry Partch, Don Cherry, Alice Coltrane, Phil Spectors, Santeria, Hermeto Pascoal, Garth Hudsons, Herbie Hancock, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Igor Stravinsky. Il primo lavoro di del multistrumentista e compositore svedese Per Tjernberg è una sommatoria di citazioni e nonostante tutto riesce a muoversi spensierato e ilare tra jazz e musica orchestrale, costruendo un “orizzonte verticale," un ampio spazio sonoro ...
read moreBengt Berger: Beches Brew
by Raul d'Gama Rose
There is vorticist movement in percussion colorist Bengt Berger's music. Like a whirling fluid mass slingshot around the world--although anchored in the broad folks forms of Swedish music--it sucks in the dancing and chanting, moaning and prancing rhythmic Hindustani and Carnatic music of India and West Africa, especially that of Ghana. And it is all here on Beches Brew, one of the most spectacular records to come out of Europe in 2009. The music is sophisticated and lurid, downright earthy ...
read moreBengt Berger - Kjell Westling: Live in Stockholm 1977
by AAJ Italy Staff
Ci immerge nel clima della ricerca musicale impro svedese degli anni Settanta questo Live in Stockholm 1977 pubblicato dalla Country&Eastern [etichetta di cui ci siamo già occupati]: erano gli anni del collettivo/etichetta “Ett Minne för Livet" (Una memoria per la vita), che raccoglieva i migliori fermenti del momento, con musicisti come il percussionista Bengt Berger e il clarinettista e sassofonista Kjell Westling, protagonisti di questi quaranta minuti in libertà catturati dalla Radio Svedese nel novembre del 1977. I due musicisti ...
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