Jazz Articles about Bo Strandberg

About Bo Strandberg

Album Review

Nils Berg & Norrbotten Big Band: Paid To Cry

Read "Paid To Cry" reviewed by Maciej Stasiowski

by Maciej Stasiowski
June 9, 2026

When faced with the trauma of loss, we stifle. Tears flow when the defense shields are eventually down or the dam is allowed to overflow with emotion. Crying out loud--pardon the pun--turns into a performance that comes with its own measures of mastery in feigning the lament for the screen or--as in the case of Nils Berg and his 2025 collaboration with Norrbotten Big Band --the speakers. Rest assured, lachrymose arrangements are genuine, melodies verge on the cathartic. With the ...

Album Review

Johan Lindstrom & Norrbotten Big Band: Johan Lindstrom & Norrbotten Big Band

Read "Johan Lindstrom & Norrbotten Big Band" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
October 2, 2023

Continua a sfornare grandi album Moserobie, etichetta creata da Jonas Kullhammar sassofonista e illuminato agitatore musicale svedese. Perché di un grande album questo Johan Lindstrom & Norrbotten Big Band si tratta. Non il classico schema solista-orchestra ma un organismo proteiforme, sorprendente, che si scompone, si assottiglia, si nasconde, esplode, si rilassa, creatura dadaista che solletica i sensi, e fa volare l'immaginazione. E così l'incedere marziale di “Parade," tra hard rock e liriche aperture, scalda i motori, “Blues ...