Sven Bjerstedt

I was born and still live in Malmö in southern Sweden (though my parents told me I was conceptualized in New Orleans). I have been a professional jazz pianist since 1980, working mostly with regional Swedish and Danish groups. Sideman on albums with several bands. In 2013 I released the trio album "Peace" in my own name. As a researcher in music education I have focused on jazz improvisation, for instance in my dissertation, "Storytelling in jazz improvisation" (2014), in the volume "Storytelling in jazz and musicality in theatre: Through the mirror" (Routledge, 2021) and in articles on the role of intention in jazz improvisation. In 2006 I published a biography of the Finnish American composer/musician Einar Swan who wrote "When your lover has gone" ("Who was Einar Swan? A study in Jazz Age fame and oblivion", available on the Internet), and two years later I was featured in a Finnish one-hour TV documentary based on that biography.

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