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Calle Stenman
Calle Stenman is a young trumpet player firmly determined to carve his own path. He graduated from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm 2017, and for the last couple of years, Calle has been touring all around Europe, playing everything from ska to jazz. After years spent in different horn sections, he released his first album as a bandleader in the fall of 2019, on Norwegian label AMP Music & Records. The record, Mr. Sands is in the Dressing Room, was well-received among critics both in the USA and in Europe and, it has been described as “a debut album of distinction". In the fall of 2020, Calle released his second album, America, Oh America, together with the Swedish jazz musician Oskar Schönning. America, Oh America is an album that combines the Swedish woods with the prairie sunset in a mixture of jazz and Americana. The album features the lyrics of Annika Norlin and Sara Parkman on vocals and violin.
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Oskar Schonning / The Calle Stenman Quintet: America, Oh America
by Chris May
America, Oh America is co-led by two of Sweden's most distinctive jazz musicians, trumpeter Calle Stenman and bassist Oskar Schönning. Schönning is the better known of the pair, having been recording since 2004. Stenman debuted in 2019 with the Calle Stenman Quintet's Mr Sands Is In The Dressing Room (AMP), an assured and swinging album which mixed ballads, boppers and hard boppers and was among the under-the-radar pleasures of the year. America, Oh America is equally delightful, ...
read moreThe Calle Stenman Quintet: Mr Sands Is In The Dressing Room
by Chris May
Welcome to the debut album from the self-proclaimed “roughest jazz group in Sweden," led by trumpeter, flugelhornist and composer Calle Stenman. By rough, Stenman's original Swedish text probably meant something akin to “raucous," for there is nothing untutored or blemished about the album, which has been carefully crafted. Four of the tunes—the hard boppish “Jazzkaban," post-boppish “Oh Me," bluesy “Dannes Blues" and boppish “Oslo's Nuts"—are raucous in the best sense of the word. That is, they are loud, passionate and ...
read more"A debut album of distinction." - All About Jazz "Stenman’s playing is raw and vocal, perhaps even visceral." - Jazz Journal
