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Magnus Broo

Horizon

By Martin Sjöstedt

Label: Ubuntu Music
Released: 2024
Track listing: Butterfly; Intervals; Donna Lee; Horizon; The Wedding; Mulgrew; 26-2; Tengtones; Equinox.

Martin Sjöstedt & Stockholm Jazz Orchestra: Horizon

by Neil Duggan
February 13, 2024

The Stockholm Jazz Orchestra has been together since 1984--40 years at this writing. That is quite an achievement. especially in an age where large ensembles make little financial sense. In 1986, Bob Brookmeyer joined the band as a guest, eventually leading to his compositions featuring on their debut album, Dreams (Dragon, 1988). Subsequently, they have played ...

Hanna Paulsberg Concept: Daughter Of The Sun

by Chris May
April 7, 2023

Ever since Jan Garbarek put Norwegian jazz on the map in the late 1980s, and even more so after the international success of his singularly ascetic Officium (ECM) in 1994, the music has acquired a reputation for being, if not entirely lacking in passion, then at least emotionally detached. Since the millennium, with the emergence of ...

A Muted Reality

By Martin Kuchen

Label: Clean
Released: 2022
Track listing: Muted Reality; The Hidden Balcony; Fkk Down, Fkk Off.

Moers Festival Interviews: Julien Desprez

by Martin Longley
May 12, 2021

It might seem that the Parisian guitarist Julien Desprez has made a recent storming of the jazz and improvisation scenes. He did make lightning moves and sounds at Jazzfest Berlin and the Moers Festival in 2018 and '19, but Desprez was active nearly a decade ago—though enjoying a much lower profile. He even toured the UK ...

Bashing Mushrooms

Label: Cuneiform Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Kudeta; Bamse; Bashing Mushrooms; Horus Øye; Go Greta; Barnen; Farmor; Fem Skator.

I.P.A.: Bashing Mushrooms

by Troy Dostert
November 18, 2020

Comprised of an impressive roster of Scandinavian all-stars, I.P.A. might only need a better name if the group is to break through to wider notice. Harnessing its commitment to post-bop freedom to thoughtful tunecraft, the band's music is both accessible and tough-edged, cerebral and hard-grooving in equal measure. The quintet's first Cuneiform release, I Just Did ...

Angles 9: Beyond Us

by John Sharpe
September 17, 2019

Swedish saxophonist Martin Küchen's versatile Angles agglomeration has appeared in assorted sizes from a trio up to a nonet. But whatever the dimensions, it possesses the familiar virtues of driving riffs, explosive soloing, and elemental yet affecting melodies. Beyond Us, recorded live during Groningen's splendid Summer Jazz Cycling Tour is no different. It's the fourth release ...

Rob Mazurek: Desert Encrypts Vol. 1

by Karl Ackermann
July 29, 2019

It was twenty-five years ago, in 1994, that Rob Mazurek first emerged with Man Facing East (Hep Jazz), a quartet recording solidly positioned in the post/hard bop style. Even in the interpretations of standards, there were clues that the cornetist/composer was a restless soul. In the intervening years, Mazurek has rapidly charted his own dissident destiny ...