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Elsa Bergman

Born: 1989

Elsa Bergman (born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1989) studied jazz at the Music Conservatory in Trondheim, Norway.

After graduating in 2012, she has worked as a freelance musician in the field of improvised music, based in Stockholm.

Her main project is the free jazz trio SPACE, with pianist Lisa Ullén and drummer Anna Lund. She has also been a member of, among others, Fire! Orchestra, Anna Högberg Attack and Sthlm Svaga.

In 2021, Bergman released her solo debut, A, on her own label, Bergman Inspelningar. The label also released Playon Crayon in 2023, featuring music she composed for an improvising quintet.

Space: Embrace the Space

by John Sharpe
January 11, 2025

The second album from the Swedish collective Space, comprising pianist Lisa Ullén, bassist Elsa Bergman and drummer Anna Lund, finds further intrigue and sustenance in the soil that nurtured its eponymous 2022 debut. The three principals share a vision of the piano trio that accentuates the percussive aspects of the format. They have honed that synergy ...

Embrace the Space

By Lisa Ullen

Label: Relative Pitch Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Look; The Immeasurable; All at once; Cyklop; Bleach; Rage; Composure; Blood & Money.

Space: Embrace the Space

by Hrayr Attarian
June 18, 2024

The innovative Swedish trio Space is a collaborative unit that consists of three masters of improvisation. Pianist Lisa Ullen, bassist Elsa Bergman, and drummer Anna Lund separately and together work in the border zone between the modern western classical idiom and that of free jazz. The thrilling Embrace the Space is the ensemble's second release and ...

Playon Crayon

By Elsa Bergman

Label: Bergman Inspelningar
Released: 2023
Track listing: Kaleidoscope I; Rosmarie; Heartbeats; Maths; The Sea; Phone Cords; Inspired by Steve Adams; Kaleidoscope II.

Elsa Bergman: Playon Crayon

by John Eyles
April 8, 2023

Ever since 1967, when British composer Cornelius Cardew's 193-page graphic score Treatise was published, there has been controversy about the role graphic scores play in improvised music. Having worked on Treatise from 1963 to 1967, once it was published and discussed, Cardew wrote Treatise Handbook, published in 1971, which shed no light on how Treatise's complex ...

Space

By Lisa Ullen

Label: Relative Pitch Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Come Together; Circle Of Security; Joint Attention; Tempest; Core.

Lisa Ullén, Elsa Bergman, Anna Lund: Space

by John Sharpe
June 10, 2022

Although pianist Lisa Ullén, bassist Elsa Bergman and drummer Anna Lund supply a formidable bottom end to the surging horn polyphony of Anna Högberg's Attack, on Space they find an alternative means to convey emotion and rapport through collective improvisation. Across five studio tracks, the Swedish threesome practices an egalitarian creed which does not privilege any ...

Art of the Arranger

by David Brown
April 5, 2022

This week, large ensembles and horn sections arranged Don Sebesky for Freddie Hubbard, Mary Lou Williams for the Twelve Clouds of Joy, Quincy Jones for The Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra plus arrangements by Miho Hazama, Melba Liston, Kamasi Washington and more. Then, jazz and spoken word from Charles Mingus, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, and Darius Jones. Then, new ...

lena

By Anna Hogberg

Label: OMLOTT Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: pappa kom hem; det är inte för sent; dansa margit; tjuv; pärlemor; äntligen.