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Fredrik Ljungkvist
Fredrik Ljungkvist was born in Kristinehamn in Sweden 1969. Brought up in a musical home (his father is a saxophoneplayer as well) he early chosed the path to music. He moved to Stockholm -89 to studie at the Royal Academy of Music and played with some of the leading bands in Stockholm as, Fredrik Norén Band, Lina Nyberg group and Per "Texas" Johansson band. In 1993 he formed his own group (Fredrik Ljungkvist quartet) that also released two CDs (Falling papers 1995 and Sonic space 1997).
Fredrik Ljungkvist is considered one of Swedens most talented and interesting saxophoneplayers right now. His expressive and sensitive playing has impressed the audience and press all over the world. With different constellations he has played in Scandinavia, Canada, South Africa, Russia, USA, Great Britain, Scottland, Morocco, Portugal, France, among others. In may 2001, he will recieve the "Jazz kannan" as the musician of the year from the Swedish Jazz Society. In September 2000 he composed a 30 minutes long piece for the Pipeline project, a collaboration between 16 Swedish and American musicians on initiative by the Svenska Rikskonserter. The piece was performed in Chicago and Sweden.
He has during the last 10 years participated on over 30 jazz-albums and played together with musicians as, Roland Kejser, Anders Jormin, Mats Gustafsson, John Taylor, Petur Island �-stlund, Joakim Milder, Marc Ducret,Bobo Stensson, Raymond Stridh, Lina Nyberg and Axel Dörner amongst others. He is a member of the groups : LSB, Per "Texas" Johansson band , Fire House, Ken Vandermark�'s Territory Band, Parish and the norwegian band Atomic.
discography
Inside Out: "Try this" (tap rec.) "Extra, extra" (tap rec.) Fredrik Ljungkvist Quartet: "Fallin�' Papers" (dragon records) "Sonic Space" (prophone records) Fredrik Norén Band: "One day in may" (mirrors) Lina Nyberg: "So many stars" (prophone rec.) "Open" (prophone rec.) Per"Texas"Johansson: "Alla mina kompisar" (Kaza records/EMI) "Man kan lika gärna leva" (Kaza rec./EMI) Harald Svensson: "Vanished in blue" (caprice records) Jan Levander: Oktett "Musaik" (dragon rec.) Klas Nevrin: "Fancy Machine" (dragon rec.) Anders Jormin: "Silvae" (dragon rec.) Jazz Furniture: "Jazz i Sverige -94" (caprice rec.) Mats Gustafsson: "Hidros One" (caprice rec.) LSB: "Walk, Stop, Look and Walk" (crazy wisdom) Berthling/Ljungkvist/Sandell "Live at Umeå Jazzfestival" (Lj rec) Position Alpha "Yeti" (dragon rec.) Petur �-stlund "Power Flower" (jazzis rec.) Jerker Lindström "April in Täby" (caprice rec.) Sounds -99 (blue tower rec.) Jan Levander "For trio and ten piece band" (alice rec.) Lina Nyberg "Brasilien" (prophone rec.) Lindha Svantesson "Jazz i Sverige"(caprice rec.) Atomic "Feet Music" (jazzland) Per "Texas" Johansson: "Holon" (Kaza/EMI Rec.) Jan Levanders Oktett: "Spion för en främmande makt" (prophone rec.) Per "Texas" Johansson: Per "Texas" Johansson (kaza/EMI rec.) Territory Band 2 ”Atlas” (okka disc) Per Henrik Wallin and his Gang ”Tiveden” (Phono Suecia) Atomic ”Boom boom” (jazzland/universal) LSB ”Fungus” (Moserobie Records) Parish "Rica" (Challenge Records) Fredrik Ljungkvist "Yun Kan 12345" (caprice rec.) Atomic / School Days "Nuclear Assembly Hall" (Okkadisk) Firehouse "Live at Glenn Miller" (ayler rec.) Per Henrik Wallin and his gang "Mandelstam" (Moserobie) Territory Band 3 "Map theory" (okka disk) Mats Eilertsen "Turanga" (challenge rec.)
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Fredrik Ljungkvist - Kris Davis - Ole Morten Vågan - Øyvind Skarbø: Inland Empire
by Glenn Astarita
Rising star American pianist Kris Davis aligns with A-list Scandinavian progressive jazz artists for a semi-structured program that, among numerous positives, highlights the ensemble's persuasive interactions amid a capacious soundstage, spanning sublime progressions, angular unison choruses and geometrical paradigm shifts. But the musicians unrelenting creativity and thoughtful improvisations spark a winning formula not always easily attainable in these unions, where spontaneous breakouts and plot redevelopments yield significant rewards. “Truffle Pigs and Katmandu Stray Dogs" is a prime ...
read moreMattias Risberg's Mining: Zauberberg
by Karl Ackermann
The Swedish pianist Mattias Risberg has teamed up with a range of well-known northern European born or based improvisers, including saxophonist Fredrik Ljungkvist and vocalist Jennie Abrahamson. He remains largely unknown in the U.S. but garnered well-deserved attention for And Now the Queen--A Tribute to Carla Bley (Lilalo records, 2016), a duo recording with Ljungkvist. Risberg lives between two musical worlds as a post-modern composer with an affinity for (relatively) old-world instruments. His inspirations are no less diverse: he cites ...
read moreLina Nyberg: The Clouds
by Troy Dostert
In a career spanning almost three decades--her first release, Close (Prophone), with Esbjörn Svensson, dates from 1993-- vocalist, composer and arranger Lina Nyberg has worked with many of the finest musicians in the Swedish jazz scene to create a truly formidable body of work. Nineteen albums later, her creativity shows no signs of abating. In fact, with The Clouds, a project featuring a tentet of first-rank colleagues, Nyberg is poised to reinforce her place at the vanguard of chance-taking European ...
read moreFredrik Ljungkvist & Mattias Risberg: And Now the Queen - A Tribute to Carla Bley
by Karl Ackermann
Carla Bley's compositions have been recorded by a seemingly endless list of artists including Jaco Pastorius, Arturo O'Farrill, Eberhard Weber, Jan Garbarek, Jimmy Giuffre and extensively by her former husband, the late Paul Bley. She has been revolutionary in the scope of her work which has run from the jazz opera Escalator Over the Hill (JCOA Records, 1971) to the politically influenced Liberation Music Orchestra led by Charlie Haden. With the earlier release of Andando el Tiempo (ECM, 2016) with ...
read moreFredrik Ljungkvist / Yun Kan 10: Ten
by Eyal Hareuveni
Acclaimed Swedish reed player Fredrik Ljungkvist's key solo outfit is the Yun Kan band. This band, in its incarnation as a quintet, released two remarkable albums, Yun Kan 12345 and Badaling (Caprice, 2004 and 2007) and in recent years operated in a slimmed down version as Yun Kan 3 and as an ambitious outgrowth of the quintet as Yun Kan 10. Now, finally, more than five years after its last documentation, this ensemble has been beautifully recorded by Swedish Radio. ...
read moreTva For Tommy: Tva For Tommy
by Eyal Hareuveni
Behind the odd name Två För Tommy (Two for Tommy in Swedish) stand three of the best Swedish improvisers: reed player Fredrik Ljungkvist, a founding member of the acclaimed Norwegian-Swedish quintet Atomic; vibraphonist Mattias Ståhl, who leads his own bands, Ståhls Blå and Ståhls Trio, and has collaborated with countless other outfits; and double bassist Patric Thorman, member of the Swedish-American quintet Seval. This trio's debut--a limited edition LP of only 350 copies--is a masterful exploration of chamber jazz.
read moreAtomic: Retrograde
by Lloyd N. Peterson Jr.
Every time I have the opportunity to attend a performance by Atomic, I find myself asking, how does a band this dynamic and creative miss the radar on so many different media and industry levels? If the Miles Davis Quintet with Tony Williams, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter and Herbie Hancock could have rocked, they would have been the brilliant and ass-kicking Atomic. If they were from New York, my peers would be drooling at the opportunity to discover the arrival ...
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Fredrik Ljungkvist
Location: Stockholm
Instrument: Saxophone, tenor
Born: November 29, 1969
