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Christina Gustafsson: My Move
by Chris Mosey
Christina Gustafsson is sister of the better known Swedish jazz vocalist Rigmor Gustafsson. This is her second album, a follow-up to Moments Free (Prophone, 2007). Gustafsson feels herself to be part of the singer/songwriter tradition but employs a team of three text writers--Cecilia Åse, Helena Davidsson and Stefan Danielsson--who, she says, “have worked close together and ...
China Moses & Raphael Lemonnier: This One's For Dinah
by Chris Mosey
Once upon a time, the Queen of the Blues was visited in her dressing room backstage by a woman and her baby daughter. The Queen of the Blues picked up the baby, looked at her and said, “She's gonna be a singer. She's definitely gonna be a singer." The prediction came true. The Queen was Dinah ...
China Moses: Bringing Back the Good Times
by Chris Mosey
China Moses is dedicating her singing career to blowing away the notion that women jazz singers in the present age have to be white and wispy and sing songs that are studiously liberated and sexless. She was born in Los Angeles in 1978, daughter of jazz doyenne Dee Dee Bridgewater and her second ...
Mynta: Meetings in India
by Chris Mosey
Mynta was founded in 1979 by Swedish bass guitarist Christian Paulin as a jazz fusion band. Nowadays, the band bills itself as “Nordic ice and Indian spice" and claims to play Indo-jazz fusion. It's difficult to discern any jazz though, as this seems rather a bizarre mix of mainly folk influences from all manner of musical ...
Carin Lundin: Smulor och Parafraser
by Chris Mosey
With this album Carin Lundin lays claim to the territory previously occupied in Swedish jazz by the late, great Monica Zetterlund. It was obviously made very much with an eye to the domestic market, with all but two of the 12 numbers in Swedish. However, Smulor och Parafraser (Crumbs and Paraphrases) is already proving something of ...
Arne Domnerus: Memories of You
by Chris Mosey
With the death of Arne Domnerus, at the age of 83, on September 2, 2008, a great and all-pervading light went out on the Swedish jazz scene. “Dompan," as he was universally known in his homeland, started out playing Benny Goodman-influenced clarinet in a Stockholm college band in his teens, graduated to alto saxophone in diverse, ...
Myrna Lake: Yesterdays
by Chris Mosey
Yesterdays, vocalist Myrna Lake's second album, follows softly--as opposed to hard--on the heels of her independently released 2002 debut, Close Enough, when she was a spry young thing of 67. A late starter? Well, not really. Lake started singing three-part harmony with her father and sister at age six, and by 14 was performing with the ...
Nils Lindberg / Margareta Bengtson: As We Are
by Chris Mosey
With climate change and recent weather, the Shakespearean sonnet “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?" would seem to have become a trifle outmoded. Still, where there's a Will there's a way and Nils Lindberg has set the piece to music. Lindberg is a true Renaissance man. From his home in Gagnef, a small village ...
Ruslan Khain Sextet: Tie It In!
by Chris Mosey
Change has been a constant in bassist Ruslan Khain's life. He was born in 1972 in Leningrad when the Soviet Union was still firmly and seemingly irrevocably in place. By 1994 when he was studying classical music at the Mussorgsky College of Music, the impossible had happened. The Soviet Union was no more and his home ...
Karl-Martin Almqvist: Sweden's "Bear" Digs for Roots
by Chris Mosey
In his native Sweden they call big, bearded Karl-Martin Almqvist “The Bear." He's one the best of the current crop of jazz saxophonists there. Critics even make comparisons with Lars Gullin, the legendary reedman who gave Swedish jazz its own, highly distinctive voice. “I would love to be able to say Gullin was my first influence," ...
