Fredrik Nordstr

Fredrik Nordstr: Urgency

by Jack Bowers
May 1, 2001

Young Fredrik Nordström (25 or 26 when this album was recorded last year) seems to be Sweden’s answer to America’s bumper crop of fast–rising saxophone stars (Josh Redman, Chris Potter, Ravi Coltrane, Eric Alexander, Mark Turner and so on), and that ain’t bad. Technically, at least, he’s on a par with any of them; his conceptual framework, on the other hand, needs more work if he wishes (as surely he does) to rise above the madding crowd. Right now, Nordström ...