Jazz Articles about Firehouse

Firehouse: Live at the Glenn Miller Cafe

by Rex Butters
November 3, 2004

More house afire than firehouse, this Swedish quintet plays with passion and precision. Caught live at the Glenn Miller Cafe in January of 2004, the musicians ably ignite a room and each other through seven performances.

Guitarist John Lindblom's thick blunt and bent chords give “Cyklone Song" a Beefheart scent. When the band kicks into hyperdrive, you understand how they keep the cold away in northern latitudes. With trumpeter Magnus Broo's lip-leveling solo leading a galloping chorus, the band locks ...