Jazz Articles about Peter Dahlgren

About Peter Dahlgren

Album Review

Bignami Veltri Jazz Ensemble: Non-Places

Read "Non-Places" reviewed by Neil Duggan

by Neil Duggan
July 20, 2026

Non-Places is a large ensemble project from the Bignami Veltri Jazz Ensemble, led by Italian composers Anna Bignami and Laura Veltri. Their nonet, consisting of six horns and a piano trio, brings together some of the leading musicians from the Danish jazz scene. Blending composition, improvisation and slight electronic elements, the group takes influences ranging from contemporary jazz to experimental music. The album takes its title from the concept introduced by French anthropologist Marc Augé, who described “non-places" ...

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Martin Sjöstedt & Stockholm Jazz Orchestra: Horizon

by Neil Duggan
February 13, 2024

The Stockholm Jazz Orchestra has been together since 1984--40 years at this writing. That is quite an achievement. especially in an age where large ensembles make little financial sense. In 1986, Bob Brookmeyer joined the band as a guest, eventually leading to his compositions featuring on their debut album, Dreams (Dragon, 1988). Subsequently, they have played with artists such as Maria Schneider and The Yellowjackets and undertaken numerous worldwide tours. Operating similarly to a jazz collective, all the ...

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Tolvan Big Band: Interacting

Read "Interacting" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
June 9, 2022

There's an ample supply of engaging music on Interacting, the fourteenth recording by Sweden's splendid Tolvan Big Band, all of it written and arranged by director and lead alto saxophonist Helge Albin. A shame there isn't more than thirty-two minutes worth. Be that as it may, the music itself is by and large buoyant and swinging, with seamless interplay among the various sections and sharp solos by Albin ("Dancing Shoes," “Lightsome") and his colleagues. Trombonist Peter Dahlgren ...

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Django Bates: Tenacity

Read "Tenacity" reviewed by Pat Youngspiel

by Pat Youngspiel
November 20, 2020

Few jazz artists go to such great lengths to make their audience feel at the same time bewildered by humor-infused technical exhaustion and smitten by charm and sheer musical beauty as Django Bates does. The English pianist and composer has gained a reputation over the years, for bringing the quirkiest and widest range of ideas and styles to a, more or less, aesthetically-serious art form. Some might even claim he's the Frank Zappa of jazz. Then again, who's to say ...

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Django Bates: Tenacity

by John Kelman
October 9, 2020

It's been a long time since that late May, 2013 week in Luleå, Sweden, where pianist Django Bates and his Belovèd Trio first collaborated with the renowned Norrbotten Big Band. Fully documented in the All About Jazz article Django Bates: From Zero to Sixty in Five Days, Bates, bassist Petter Eldh and drummer Peter Bruun, along with other non-Norrbotteners, including guitarist Markus Pesonen, tubaist Daniel Herskedal and trombonist/vocalist Ashley Slater, made the lengthy trek to this small coastal town, located ...

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Anne Mette Iversen Quartet + 1: Racing a Butterfly

Read "Racing a Butterfly" reviewed by Friedrich Kunzmann

by Friedrich Kunzmann
June 7, 2020

A working collective since 2002, Anne Mette Iversen's quartet—saxophonist John Ellis, pianist Danny Grissett, drummer Otis Brown III and Iversen herself on bass—has developed a unique musical language, which transcends typical stigmas of the genre and demonstrates a special sense of light-footedness in navigating through the different bars and meters, all the while evading the self-indulgent. Augmented to a quintet with the addition of trombonist Peter Dahlgren, Racing A Butterfly sees Iverson building on concepts introduced on past outings Milo ...

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Anne Mette Iversen: Racing a Butterfly

Read "Racing a Butterfly" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
May 15, 2020

Many can surely recall the sunny, childlike fervor and bounce chasing a butterfly. Whether it was the park behind the projects or a rolling, rural vista, a feeling of wonder and wander settled into our core memory, only to be summoned in up from the subconscious to displace the current. Even if but for a moment. Even if but for the forty-eight or so minutes of Racing a Butterfly's capering wit. No one is afraid to follow a ...