Jazz Articles about Calle Stenman

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Album Review

Oskar Schonning / The Calle Stenman Quintet: America, Oh America

Read "America, Oh America" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
November 19, 2020

America, Oh America is co-led by two of Sweden's most distinctive jazz musicians, trumpeter Calle Stenman and bassist Oskar Schönning. Schönning is the better known of the pair, having been recording since 2004. Stenman debuted in 2019 with the Calle Stenman Quintet's Mr Sands Is In The Dressing Room (AMP), an assured and swinging album which mixed ballads, boppers and hard boppers and was among the under-the-radar pleasures of the year. America, Oh America is equally delightful, ...

Album Review

The Calle Stenman Quintet: Mr Sands Is In The Dressing Room

Read "Mr Sands Is In The Dressing Room" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
November 27, 2019

Welcome to the debut album from the self-proclaimed “roughest jazz group in Sweden," led by trumpeter, flugelhornist and composer Calle Stenman. By rough, Stenman's original Swedish text probably meant something akin to “raucous," for there is nothing untutored or blemished about the album, which has been carefully crafted. Four of the tunes—the hard boppish “Jazzkaban," post-boppish “Oh Me," bluesy “Dannes Blues" and boppish “Oslo's Nuts"—are raucous in the best sense of the word. That is, they are loud, passionate and ...