Jazz Articles about Gustav Tornberg

About Gustav Tornberg

Album Review

Science Fair: Sugar in the Morning

Read "Sugar in the Morning" reviewed by Daniel Mège

by Daniel Mège
October 8, 2026

Listening to Anna Ueland amounts to turning a question mark into an exclamation mark. Heard at the Trondheim Jazzfestival in 2026, when elected Ambassador of the University of Trondheim, she presented her string-dominated group Populærmusikk for likesinnede (Popular music for like-minded people), joyful experimental jazz-pop with first-rate soloists. She had just released Music For A Noisy Environment (Sonic Transmissions Records, 2026) with her group Babies On Airplanes, a sort of ad hoc soundtrack for the listener's imagination. Here she is with her quintet ...

Album Review

Babies On Airplanes: Music For A Noisy Environment

Read "Music For A Noisy Environment" reviewed by Daniel Mège

by Daniel Mège
June 12, 2026

Babies On Airplanes is Anna Ueland's trio project. The cover's suggestion of a run-of-the-mill piano/synthesiser-bass-drums trio formula is deceptive. The album deploys a bric-à-brac in the service of a jazz that navigates between synth-pop, pure improvisation (whatever that means), rock, and pretty much anything else one might want to put in it. Ueland, a physicist who turned to music early, is a unique voice on the young Norwegian jazz scene, impressing through her vigorously melodic instinct (melody: first keyword), without any ...