Jazz Articles about Morgan Ågren

About Morgan Ågren

Album Review

Yelena Eckemoff: Rosendals Garden

Read "Rosendals Garden" reviewed by Tyran Grillo

by Tyran Grillo
August 30, 2026

A garden is one of civilization's gentlest fictions, a piece of earth coaxed into pattern while still permitted to breathe beyond the gardener's intentions. That tension between cultivation and freedom animates Rosendals Garden, pianist and composer Yelena Eckemoff's 23rd album since 2010. The project, animated as always by a vivid personal concept, distills her travels through Sweden into something more elusive than an itinerary. Each destination enters as a physical place and emerges as a chamber of consciousness, steeped in ...

Album Review

Yelena Eckemoff: Rosendals Garden

Read "Rosendals Garden" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
March 27, 2026

Rosendals Garden is yet another chapter in Yelena Eckemoff's ongoing historical narrative devoted to people and places both real and imagined. Recorded in 2024 at RMV Studio, Stockholm, Sweden, by engineer Linn Final, with mixing and mastering by Stefano Amerio, the audio is as colorful and detailed as the musicianship and the packaging. Remarkably, there has never been a sense of hurry in the playing of keyboardist Eckemoff and her two bandmates. During the luxuriously slow build-up of ...