Jazz Articles about Adam Ross

About Adam Ross

Album Review

Martin Sjöstedt & Stockholm Jazz Orchestra: Horizon

by Neil Duggan
February 13, 2024

The Stockholm Jazz Orchestra has been together since 1984--40 years at this writing. That is quite an achievement. especially in an age where large ensembles make little financial sense. In 1986, Bob Brookmeyer joined the band as a guest, eventually leading to his compositions featuring on their debut album, Dreams (Dragon, 1988). Subsequently, they have played with artists such as Maria Schneider and The Yellowjackets and undertaken numerous worldwide tours. Operating similarly to a jazz collective, all the ...

Album Review

Tobias Grim: Spring 2020

Read "Spring 2020" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
October 5, 2020

Locked down but cool, calm and collected in the midst of global strife, Swedish guitarist Tobias Grim and his equally cool, calm, and collected trio mates, bassist Magnus Bergström and drummer Adam Ross, took a couple of time suspended, life upended days in spring 2020 to jam on few new Grim tunes and some well-known standards that fit comfortably in all our songbooks. If fuzzy gyrations, blurry distortions, technical pyrotechnics, and washes of improvisation are your guitar trio ...