Jazz Articles about Thommy Andersson

About Thommy Andersson

Album Review

Kirk Knuffke / Marilyn Crispell / Thommy Andersson: Paintbrush

Read "Paintbrush" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
November 8, 2026

Like all things refreshingly human, Paintbrush comes with a backstory of kinship. And the story goes that comrade-in-arms cornetist Kirk Knuffke and bassist Thommy Andersson got in touch with pianist Marilyn Crispell and Crispell, ever one for a new fling, invited the pair to come to Woodstock, New York, as so many before them had in the years before. In January of 2024, come to snowbound Woodstock the pair did, to hang at Crispell's favorite studio, Nevessa Productions in neighboring ...

Album Review

Marilyn Crispell, Thommy Andersson, Michala Østergaard-Nielsen: The Cave

Read "The Cave" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
April 20, 2025

A temporal fragility warmly embraces as the The Cave opens with the title cut. And since a vast portion of the world's troubled population holds a childhood fear of caves and the potential human criteria that bound rowdy from them, things could get tricky. But they do not. Marilyn Crispell, in what could be another defining moment in a lifetime of bold defining moments, holds those anxieties at bay, and does so throughout this stunning testament. “My Spirit ...