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The Magnus Broo Quartet: Levitation
by Jack Bowers
I’d heard and been impressed by Swedish trumpeter Magnus Broo on big–band dates but hadn’t run across him in a small–group setting until now. Broo’s quartet has been together for about four years, and Levitation is its second album; the first, Sudden Joy, was recorded live in 1999. Even though it’s a quartet, Broo’s snappish phrases, ...
Arne Fors: Where Is the Moon?
by Jack Bowers
There is some music (a lot of it, actually) about which I’m hardly qualified to advance an opinion. Usually, but not always, the music consists of melodies I’ve not heard before played by a single instrumentalist, as is the case with Where Is the Moon? by Swedish pianist Arne Forsén. Most of what Forsén plays is ...
St: Dancing
by Jack Bowers
Dancing (Dragon) Ståhls Blå starts on the wrong foot with the strident “Blues för Mor” and takes considerable time to regain its balance (which it never fully does). Dragon Records, which can usually be counted on to send enjoyable CDs for review, seems to have slipped up this time. That’s not to say that others may ...
Urgency
Label: Dragon Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Sleeping Beauty; Ming Dynasty; Highland; Falling; Metro; From Lajka
Blues, Ballads and Bebop
Label: Dragon Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: The Heap; Nan; Ramnav
The Christer Boustedt Quintet with Bosse Broberg: Blues, Ballads and Bebop
by Jack Bowers
These straight–ahead sessions led by alto saxophonist Christer Boustedt date from 1982 and ’85; six of the first seven tracks (excluding an alternate take of pianist Åke Johansson’s “One for Billy”) were released on vinyl as Dragon LP 99. Apparently, those from ’85 (a quartet date recorded in concert without trumpeter Bosse Broberg) are only now ...
Fredrik Nordstr: Urgency
by Jack Bowers
Young Fredrik Nordström (25 or 26 when this album was recorded last year) seems to be Sweden’s answer to America’s bumper crop of fast–rising saxophone stars (Josh Redman, Chris Potter, Ravi Coltrane, Eric Alexander, Mark Turner and so on), and that ain’t bad. Technically, at least, he’s on a par with any of them; his conceptual ...
