Home » Jazz Articles » Terje Sundby
Jazz Articles about Terje Sundby
Elisabeth Melander: Reflections Of A Voice
by Chris Mosey
Elisabeth Melander was born in Boden, a military town in the cold and desolate north of Sweden. She used her vocal abilities and knowledge of music to escape and is now based in the southern cities of Lund and Malmö, travelling all over the Nordic Area, teaching, spreading the word about jazz and encouraging young musicians. Every now and then she brings out an album. Reflections Of A Voice is her latest. It features jazz standards and ...
Continue ReadingTerje Sundby: Ynde
by Matthew Wuethrich
Maybe it’s time someone called Nordic jazz the West Coast Cool of Europe. The Cool school favored focused lyricism over angular melodies, softly padding swing over propulsive drive, and feathery dynamics over brash volume—all qualities that some of the more overtly “Nordic” jazz shares, while it injects a healthy dose of space and echo to create its signature expansive ambience. Drummer Terje Sundby quite explicitly puts himself in this line, his group Ynde using the same instrumentation as Arlid Andersen’s ...
Continue Reading
