Jazz Articles about Magnus Bergström

About Magnus Bergström

Album Review

Anyone who ever studied philosophy or literature has probably encountered the term dualism. Dualism represents two different aspects of one thing, much like two sides of one coin. Although the concept is generally associated with academics, it certainly applies to many different areas, and music is no exception. For example, the performance process is one form of expression, while the songwriting process is a different form of expression. Whenever these two are combined, it often brings ...

Album Review

Tobias Grim: Spring 2020

Read "Spring 2020" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
October 5, 2020

Locked down but cool, calm and collected in the midst of global strife, Swedish guitarist Tobias Grim and his equally cool, calm, and collected trio mates, bassist Magnus Bergström and drummer Adam Ross, took a couple of time suspended, life upended days in spring 2020 to jam on few new Grim tunes and some well-known standards that fit comfortably in all our songbooks. If fuzzy gyrations, blurry distortions, technical pyrotechnics, and washes of improvisation are your guitar trio ...