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Goran Kajfes

Goran is of Croatian heritage, grown up in Sweden in a family of musicians and artists. He is, since many years, an obvious authority at the very core in the Swedish music scene. A sought after session player, touring musician, arranger and producer. Goran has performed with José Gonzales, Stina Nordenstam, Eagle-Eye Cherry, Lester Bowie, The Soundrack of our Lives and many many others. Last year he was appointed Artist in Residence at Stockholm Jazz Festival. He was given the honour of composing and performing the opening ceremony of Stockholm Museum of Modern Art in 2006. He's written music to several movies and produced a number of albums including ”Clint” by Oddjob that was named Jazz Album of the Year by Sunday Times in the UK 2010. Kajfes debut Home (2001), where a mulitude of influences was mixed into an appealing and spicy brew established him as being at the forefront of crossover visionary electro-jazz

Goran Kajfeš Subtropic Arkestra & Avin Omar

By Goran Kajfeš Subtropic Arkestra

Label: We Jazz Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Suleymaniah; Desmala Min; Monsoon.

Punkt Festival 2026

by Nenad Georgievski
September 23, 2026

Punkt FestivalTeateret/KunstsiloKristiansand, Norway September 3-5, 2026   Kristiansand does not announce itself the way a festival city usually does. The southern Norwegian port sits low along a coastline of pale granite and pine, its old town a grid of white wooden houses running down to Fiskebrygga, a fishing-harbor district where ...

Zela Margossian, Rosa Brunello, Goran Kajfes, Avin Omar, Michel Petrucciani, Dave Ambrosio

by Ludovico Granvassu
June 30, 2026

Engaging, socially aware, and globally minded: a playlist of new releases from four--or more--corners of the world.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Zela Margossian Quintet “In Flight" Remedy (Ropeadope) 0:16 Host talks 8:09 David Ambrosio feat. Donny McCaslin, Ingrid Jensen, Bruce Barth, Victor Lewis ...

Atlas

By Oddjob

Label: Koyo
Released: 2025
Track listing: Crumbs 1; Baby Bop; Atlas; Crumbs 2; Up & Away; Saker Blir Inte Alltid Som Man Tänkt Sig; Dead Man Walking; Danese.

Traces

By Cosmic Ear

Label: We Jazz Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Father and Son; TRACES of Brown Rice; Love Train; Right Here Right Now; Do It (Again) – For Sofia Jernberg; TRACES of Codona and Mali.

Oddjob: Baby Bop

by Ludovico Granvassu
November 3, 2025

2025 marks 28 years of adventurous music-making for Oddjob, the ever-inventive quintet featuring Per “Ruskträsk" Johansson (saxophone, bass clarinet, flute), Goran Kajfeš (trumpet), Daniel Karlsson (piano, organ, Moog synth), Lars Skoglund (drums, vibraphone), and Viktor Skokic (bass).Though each member has built a thriving solo career, the five Swedes make sure their creative trajectories keep ...

Nacka Forum: Peaceful Piano

by Vincenzo Roggero
February 17, 2025

Dopo una serie di album che hanno marchiato a fuoco la scena svedese, dopo aver presenziato nelle playlist di mezzo mondo, dopo acclamati tour in USA, Giappone, Europa e Scandinavia ecco che viene dato alle stampe, naturalmente per la benemerita Moserobie, Peaceful Piano, l'album che celebra il venticinquesimo anniversario di Nacka Forum. Per l'occasione Jonas Kullhammar ...

I Dischi del 2024 secondo Ludovico Granvassu

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 2, 2025

Spesso molti articoli sulle “migliori uscite dell'anno" iniziano con una premessa quasi apologetica ("questi non sono necessariamente 'i migliori album dell'anno,' ma 'i miei preferiti';" “è tutto soggettivo;" “domani avrei scelto titoli diversi;" “ho potuto selezionare solo dieci album," ecc.)? Queste dichiarazioni sembrano riflettere il disagio del redattore, costretto a riassumere un vasto ecosistema artistico selezionando ...

Ludovico Granvassu's Garden of Jazzy Delights 2024

by Ludovico Granvassu
December 31, 2024

Have you noticed how many “best of the year" listicles start with an apologetic preamble ("these are not necessarily 'the best albums of the year' but 'my favorites';" “it's all subjective;" “tomorrow I might have chosen different titles;" “I could only select ten albums" etc.)? Those disclaimers channel the writer's discomfort of having to summarize a ...