Jazz Articles about Cecilia Persson

About Cecilia Persson

Album Review

Vocalist Lina Nyberg takes us through a calendar year with her album Anniverse. Being Swedish, we're talking northern hemisphere when she sings of January and following footsteps in the snow with the sun only barely appearing on the horizon. Dark but not dispirited she intones rising hopes. This recording began with Nyberg's call to her long time collaborators pianist Cecilia Persson, guitarist David Stackenäs, bassist Josef Kallerdahl, and drummer Peter Danemo to send her ten words they associated with a ...

Album Review

Lina Nyberg: The Clouds

Read "The Clouds" reviewed by Troy Dostert

by Troy Dostert
June 15, 2020

In a career spanning almost three decades--her first release, Close (Prophone), with Esbjörn Svensson, dates from 1993-- vocalist, composer and arranger Lina Nyberg has worked with many of the finest musicians in the Swedish jazz scene to create a truly formidable body of work. Nineteen albums later, her creativity shows no signs of abating. In fact, with The Clouds, a project featuring a tentet of first-rank colleagues, Nyberg is poised to reinforce her place at the vanguard of chance-taking European ...

Album Review

Cecilia Persson: Open Rein

Read "Open Rein" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
March 23, 2014

Swedish pianist and composer Cecilia Persson is best known for her work in vocalist Lina Nyberg's band and with PAAVO the band she leads with vocalist Sofia Jernberg. Open Rein is Persson's debut as a solo artist, featuring a set of impressive originals. The release solidifies her status as a promising composer, improviser and bandleader, already recognized as such by Swedish Radio, who awarded her the Jazzkatten prize as the composer of the year and the Norrbotten Big Band, that ...