Jazz Articles about Dan Berglund

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This is Rymden's fourth studio album, and it finds the leading Scandinavian jazz trio refining rather than radically reinventing the formula established on their earlier releases. Norwegian pianist Bugge Wesseltoft (pronounced boo-geh) helped shape the Scandinavian jazz sound, notably through his New Conception of Jazz project (Jazzland Recordings, 1996). He is joined by bassist Dan Berglund and drummer Magnus Oström, the rhythm section of the Esbjorn Svensson Trio (e.s.t.), whose fusion of jazz, classical music, rock and techno helped propel ...

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Rymden + KORK: Rymden + KORK

Read "Rymden + KORK" reviewed by Gareth Thompson

by Gareth Thompson
March 16, 2023

The Norwegian Radio Orchestra (aka KORK) performs each year at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert. By contrast, it has also twice provided backing to the Eurovision Song Contest in Norway. Intriguing then to find them linking up with Bugge Wesseltoft, leader of Rymden and a pianist-composer whose work is both learned and accessible. Both parties create music that hammers at the spine, whilst also tingling it. The name of Wesseltoft's trio means “outer space" or “universe," whereas KORK is an ...

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Rymden: Space Sailors

Read "Space Sailors" reviewed by Gareth Thompson

by Gareth Thompson
September 13, 2020

Outer space and cosmic jazz have long been a match made beyond heaven. The latest act throwing their hat into Saturn's rings is the excellent Norwegian band Rymden, featuring keyboardist Bugge Wesseltoft. The trio has clearly boned up on Sun Ra and Lonnie Liston Smith, but rockier influences are present too from the likes of Hawkwind, The Doors, Soft Machine, even Throbbing Gristle, with Marc Moulin's acid jazztronics in there as well. Closer to home, you can hear ...

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Mattias Risberg's Mining: Zauberberg

Read "Zauberberg" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
June 23, 2020

The Swedish pianist Mattias Risberg has teamed up with a range of well-known northern European born or based improvisers, including saxophonist Fredrik Ljungkvist and vocalist Jennie Abrahamson. He remains largely unknown in the U.S. but garnered well-deserved attention for And Now the Queen--A Tribute to Carla Bley (Lilalo records, 2016), a duo recording with Ljungkvist. Risberg lives between two musical worlds as a post-modern composer with an affinity for (relatively) old-world instruments. His inspirations are no less diverse: he cites ...

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Rymden: Reflections And Odysseys

Read "Reflections And Odysseys" reviewed by Tyran Grillo

by Tyran Grillo
March 29, 2020

Reflections & Odysseys gifts to the listening world the debut of pianist Bugge Wesseltoft's new trio—called Rymden—with bassist Dan Berglund and drummer Magnus Öström. The rhythm section, best known as part of e.s.t. (led by the late Esbjörn Svensson), serves Wesseltoft with fresh purpose, at once grateful for what came before and eager to chart maps ahead. It's a dual aesthetic embodied not only in the album's title, but also in its approach to crafting sound as a realm in ...

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Rymden: Reflections And Odysseys

Read "Reflections And Odysseys" reviewed by Roger Farbey

by Roger Farbey
February 8, 2019

Is it mere coincidence, or fate, that Bugge Wesseltoft and the late Esbjo Svensson were both born in the same quarter of 1964? More to the point, Wesseltoft, having effectively merged his New Conception of Jazz with the two surviving members of Svensson's e.s.t., has now hatched a veritable Scandinavian supergroup. The formation of Rymden is a welcome move since it provides an excellent vehicle for Wesseltoft and the virtuoso rhythm section of bassist Dan Berglund and drummer Magnus Öström. ...

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Esbjörn Svensson Trio: 301

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 25, 2012

Sidney, gennaio 2007. Svensson, Berglund e Öström si ritrovano allo studio 301 a improvvisare una jam session che durerà ininterrottamente per due giorni interi, registrando circa 9 ore di musica. Quella sarà l'ultima seduta di registrazione degli E.S.T. perché nel giugno dell'anno successivo Svensson ha un incidente durante un immersione subacquea nel mare intorno a Stoccolma e muore. Dalla session australiana era stato intanto ricavato materiale per Leucocyte, uscito nel 2008: album che annunciava una svolta stilistica del trio, maggiormente ...