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Fredrik Nordstrom

Big Band Stories

By Fredrik Nordstrom

Label: Bluenord Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: East Broadway Noodles; ENYAW; Another Mountain; Peaches; Epicenter; Everblue; Blubby; The Ferret; See You At Babas.

Cassie Kinoshi, Dave Douglas, Dave Guy, Alon Farber & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
March 16, 2024

Cassie Kinoshi's stunning new album, Gratitude, along with new releases featuring Dave Douglas, Dave Guy, James Brandon Lewis, Alon Farber and Fredrik Nordström will bring you a high-density set of rewarding new music. Happy listening! Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Dave Guy “Footwork" Footwork--Single ...

Fredrik Nordström: Big Band Stories

by Mark Corroto
February 28, 2024

To describe this record as an intimate big band recording is not to state an oxymoron. Saxophonist, composer and arranger Fredrik Nordström has taken this large-scale format (17 musicians) and made a very personal statement. Big Band Stories is a bit of a departure for the Swedish saxophonist best known for his work in quintet, octet ...

Karthago

By Ilaria Capalbo

Label: Bluenord Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Beloved; Part l Ab Radice; Karthago; Mare Nostrum; Scintilla; Moth; Part ll Ago Radices; What Remains of Those Days.

From George Coleman to Meeco: Ten Overlooked Classics

by Chris May
May 10, 2022

The only thread running through this installment of Building A Jazz Library is that of unsung quality. No particular artist is spotlighted, nor any particular genre. There are simply ten, randomly selected albums, recorded in the US and Europe between 1953 and 2021, which show jazz off at its finest, but which, for one reason or ...

Ilaria Capalbo: In Fearless Pursuit Of Her Muse

by Ian Patterson
May 5, 2022

After years playing in different bands and drawing widespread praise for her lyricism and rhythmic agility, double bassist Ilaria Capalbo has stepped up to front her own project. The Neapolitan's debut album, Karthago (Bluenord Records, 2022), is a remarkable statement of intent. Inspired by the ancient Mediterranean city of Carthage and its near-mythical figurehead, queen Alyssia, ...

Ilaria Capalbo: Karthago

by Chris May
January 15, 2022

Bassist and composer Ilaria Capalbo was born and brought up in Italy but spends much of her time in Sweden, where she recorded Karthago and assembled the band which performs on it. It is always a joy to encounter for the first time a musician who sounds so fresh and original and whose music is such ...

Cécile McLorin Salvant Itai Kriss Mareike Wiening Marcin Wasilewski New Releases

by Ludovico Granvassu
November 23, 2021

Tune in and discover Cécile McLorin Salvant's new direction, Itai Kriss's demonstration that Middle-Eastern and Carribbean music were always meant to work together, and much more...Happy listening!PlaylistBen Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Sammy Miller and the Congregation “Who's Back in Town?" Who's Back in Town? -Single ...

Schweizer & Drake, Tom Rainey & El Negocito Artists

by Maurice Hogue
May 19, 2021

This episode features some excellent new releases: veteran free jazzers, pianist Irène Schweizer and drummer Hamid Drake, tearing it up at a European festival, the sublime trio Ocelot from Brooklyn, South Korean drummer Soojin Suh, pianist Dahveed Behroozi, Tom Rainey & Obligato live in Europe, and Split-Bit from jny: Berlin, plus tracks from several artists who ...