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Interview

Anders Jormin: Touching the Heart and Spirit

by John Kelman
October 4, 2004

Swedish bassist, compser, bandleader and educator Anders Jormin may be best known to North American audiences as a member of Charles Lloyd's and Tomasz Stanko's mid-'90s ECM label quartets along with pianist Bobo Stenson. He's also been a longstanding participant in Stenson's own trio, with three sublime recordings released on ECM since '96 including the subtle yet substantive double-disk set, Serenity. But the truth of the matter is that Jormin has been forging his own career since the mid-'80s, first ...

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Album Review

Anders Jormin: In Winds, In Light

Read "In Winds, In Light" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
September 1, 2004

While those familiar with bassist Anders Jormin's recorded work on the ECM label with Tomasz Stanko, Charles Lloyd and Bobo Stenson will think of him as clearly jazz-centric, albeit adventurously so, the truth that emerges from his numerous recordings on the Swedish Dragon label is that of an intensely personal artist, whose vision places no boundaries on his muse. His first release as a leader on ECM, ”01's Xeiyi , which alternated deeply lyrical solo bass pieces with moving works ...