Results for "Anders Jormin"

Vossa Jazz 2022: In Three Dimensions

by Josef Woodard
April 20, 2022

Vossa Jazz Festival Voss, Norway March 31-April 2, 2022 Like many jazz festivals trying to find a safe passage through the challenging pandemic hurdles, Norway's venerable Vossa Jazz festival kept the faith via “Plan B" operations in the past two years. Hybrid streaming and live models and a pared-down festival last September ...

Alberto Pinton: All The Difference

by Neri Pollastri
June 28, 2021

Sono passati vent'anni dall'uscita di Clear Now, primo disco a firma di Alberto Pinton, che ci fece conoscere il musicista di Porto Marghera, residente in Svezia dalla metà degli anni Ottanta; nel frattempo il polistrumentista di strada ne ha fatta parecchia ed è sempre più apprezzato sia nel Nordeuropa (tra i tanti, Anders Jormin lo ha ...

L'autorevole inventiva di Salvatore Maiore

by Angelo Leonardi
June 21, 2021

Contrabbassista, violoncellista e compositore tra i più attivi in Italia, Salvatore Maiore ha evidenziato -nelle molte collaborazioni e nei progetti personali-una cifra espressiva particolarmente ricercata, dove il ruolo dei suoi strumenti assume un aspetto propositivo, in una chiara esaltazione delle forme melodiche e timbriche. Di recente ha pubblicato un progetto sulle musiche di Charles Mingus interpretate ...

Sooäär-Yaralyan-Ounaskari: Goodbye July

by Ian Patterson
February 7, 2021

Estonian guitarist Jaak Sooäär, Finnish drummer Markku Ounaskari and Armenian bassist Ara Yaralyan first joined ranks in 2016, though all three have been active across the Baltic jazz scenes since the 1990s. Sooäär has collaborated with veterans such as Anders Jormin, Han Bennink and Vladimir Tarasov, Ounaskari with Arve Henriksen and Tore Brunborg, while Yaralyan has ...

A Musical Tryptich: Between Jazz, Folklore And Song

by Friedrich Kunzmann
January 4, 2021

The three albums below come from international European groups (among them one with a substantial Asian infusion) who recognize no boundaries in music nor borders between nations. Taking a variety of musical idioms and traditions and turning them into something new, each musician here is inspired by the lack of musical limitations that allows them to ...

Anders Jormin: Poems for Orchestra

by Neri Pollastri
February 27, 2020

Suggestivo e inusuale lavoro del contrabbassista svedese Anders Jormin, uno dei grandi interpreti scandinavi dello strumento, questo Poems for Orchestra mette in musica una serie di poesie dedicate alla natura, avvalendosi della Bohusiän Big Band e, come solisti, della cantante svedese Lena Willemark—ben nota per i suoi lavori in equilibrio tra folk, improvvisazione e contemporanea, editi ...

Anders Jormin

Born: September 7, 1957

Anders Jormin was born 1957 in Jönköping, Sweden. After intense studies, heleft Musikhögskolan in Göteborg with diplomas in double-bass andimprovisation / pedagogy in 1979.

Today as a doublebass-player and composer, he is a frequent and highlyrespected performer on the international concert scene. As a musician ingreat demand, he has recorded and toured with many of the legends in jazz. Among others : Gilberto Gil, Lee Konitz, Elvin Jones, Joe Henderson, DonCherry, Charles Lloyd, Mike Mainieri, Joe Lovano, and Jack deJohnette, as wellas Kenny Wheeler, Albert Mangelsdorff, Tomasz Stanko, Dino Saluzzi, JohnSurman, John Taylor, Mark Feldman , Paul Motian, Joey Baron, Tom Rainey, Jon Balke, Vertavo string quartet, Ann-Sofi von Otter, Norma Winstone andMarilyn Crispell. For many years, AJ was also a front figure in one ofScandinavias foremost ensembles, "Entra".

Poems for Orchestra

By Anders Jormin

Label: Losen Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Ogadh dett; En gång skall du; Dikten jag alltid drömt om att skriva; Synsk poet; Ödertorp; Krattskogslada; Hirajoshi; Not; Oktoberhavet; Utmarksäng; Kronohemman; Dröm; Måsekär; Frystation.

Losen Records' Winning Formula?

by Friedrich Kunzmann
December 4, 2019

No formula at all. The only thing that remains constant from release to release on Norwegian label Losen Records is the fact, that no album will sound anything like the last. Home to young talents, such as the Icelandic pianist Ingi Bjarni Skúlason or the Russian saxophone virtuoso Masha Art, as well as old hands along ...

Anders Jormin: Poems For Orchestra

by Friedrich Kunzmann
April 26, 2019

Swedish bassist and composer Anders Jormin has been recording since the mid 1980s, playing with greats such as his countryman Bobo Stenson, American saxophonist Charles Lloyd and Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko among others. Since his debut as a leader for ECM in 2001, he has kept close to the label. But the concept on Poems for ...