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Fredrik Nordstr

Fredrik Nordstr: On Purpose

by Jack Bowers
September 1, 2002

The title of Swedish tenor saxophonist Fredrik Norström's latest album suggests that the music was arranged On Purpose, so we won?t argue the point -- even though much of it sounds (to our ears, at least) more unpremeditated than purposeful. Well, perhaps that's a slight exaggeration. Nordström and his colleagues have talent, there's no doubt about ...

Urgency

By Fredrik Nordstr

Label: Dragon Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Sleeping Beauty; Ming Dynasty; Highland; Falling; Metro; From Lajka

Fredrik Nordstr: Urgency

by Jack Bowers
May 1, 2001

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 ...