Jazz Articles about Norrbotten Big Band featuring Georg 'Jojje' Wadenius

Norrbotten Big Band featuring Georg 'Jojje' Wadenius: Jojje Wadenius (70)

by Chris Mosey
November 9, 2016

The province of Norrbotten is the furthest north you can go in Sweden. It is a place of granite mountains, their summits capped with snow most of the year and circled by golden eagles. In the valleys the Sami people, wearing colourful folk costumes, herd reindeer and drink coffee laced with salt from wooden cups. It is a somewhat unlikely place to find what might well be the most creative jazz orchestra in the world, the Norrbotten ...