Jazz Articles about Magnus Ostrom

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Lars Danielsson Liberetto: Echomyr

by Neil Duggan
April 5, 2026

The Lars Danielsson Liberetto ensemble has assembled a distinctive body of work over its four previous albums. That development and continuity derive from his core partners for over 15 years, drummer Magnus Ostrom (Esbjorn Svensson Trio) and UK guitarist John Parricelli. They were joined in 2017 by Martinican pianist Gregory Privat, who replaced original member Tigran Hamasyan). With Echomyr, bassist Danielsson continues to carve out a singular musical path, drawing on his classical roots and folk-influenced melodic ideas ...

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New music from Magnus Ostrom, Igor Willcox, Neal Bowen and Jeremy Green

by Len Davis
April 14, 2023

New music from Canadian guitarist Jeremy Green, Travis Larsen Band, Magnus Ostrom from A Room For Travellers, bassistNeal Bowen, plus young Italian guitarist Camila Sperati and Igor Willcox Quartet-Live at Bankso Jazz Festival.Playlist Jeremy Green “I'm the Cat In Your Sandbox" from I'm The Cat In your Sandbox (Self Produced) 00:00 Travis Larsen Band “The Golden West" from The New Exhibit (Self Produced) 05:43 Camila Sperati “Moonrise" from Moonrise (Self Produced) 11:26 Mika Krstic-Hadrien Feraud-Gary Novak “Freight" from ...

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Magnus Ostrom: Dancing At The Dutchtreat

by Mike Jacobs
April 3, 2023

Searching For Jupiter (Act, 2013) was Magnus Ostrom's second outing as a leader and, as evidenced by this track, saw his group really finding their stride. “Dancing At The Dutchtreat" joyously wields all the things that would become the Ostrom band's trademarks: the accessible (yet sometimes dizzying) metric proclivities, the rhythmically-bonded (yet natural-sounding) melodicism, the (ever so slightly) understated virtuosity, the familiar (yet post-) EST sonic ethos and the uncanny group-sync. In addition to guitarist Andreas Hourdakis spreading his wings ...

Album Review

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 ...

Album Review

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 ...

Album Review

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. ...