Results for "Isabella Lundgren"

Isabella Lundgren

I am sitting at a wooden table in the basement of the Scala theater in Stockholm. I am watching Isabella Lundgren from afar. Everywhere around us the party is swirling and swaying back and forth. Her party. An after party if you will, after her concert at the Stockholm Concert hall, which she sold out entirely on her own. Last time I was at the concert hall was when Patti Smith held a concert there after receiving the Polar Music Prize, it was not sold out. An hour ago Isabella held a somewhat sacred and rather magical concert with her own material, backed by a full classical orchestra. The seated audience applauded enthusiastically but politely

Isabella Lundgren: Looking For The Silver Lining

by William H. Snyder
June 18, 2021

Isabella Lundgren was born on the winter solstice of 1987. Each day after her birth the sun shone longer until summer came. Kind of how one feels listening to her latest album Look for the Silver Lining (Ladybird, 2021). One of Sweden's gifts to the music scene, she's a young woman with a heart and soul ...

The Stockholm Corona Sessions Volume One

By Fredrik Hermansson

Label: Bra Skivor
Released: 2020
Track listing: I Got it Bad(And That Ain't Good); Holy Land; Dyningar; Langfredag; What is This Thing Called Love; Chelsea Bridge; Over the Rainbow; Ojos de Rojo; Moon River.

Pontus de Wolfe: The Genre's First Responder

by Jim Worsley
December 17, 2020

When we think of first responders, are thoughts immediately go to firemen, policemen, medical personnel, military, teachers, counselors, and such. As we should. Their tireless efforts and selflessness will always stand tall in our minds. There are, however, first responders in other walks of life as well. Meet pianist, composer, and arranger Pontus de Wolfe, music's ...

Jazzagenturen: The Stockholm Corona Sessions Volume One

by Jim Worsley
June 30, 2020

The Swedish jazz collective Jazzagenturen, founded by Pontus de Wolfe, reached deep into its collective soul and stood up to the downsides of the Covid-19 coronavirus early on. This large ensemble entered a studio on April 2nd. Twelve hours later they emerged having recorded fifty songs. The Stockholm Corona Sessions are being released in five volumes, ...

Isabella Lundgren at Bullret Jazz Club

by Patrick Burnette
November 25, 2017

Isabella Lundgren with the Carle Bagge Trio Bullret Jazz Club Malmo, Sweden November 20, 2017 From time to time the “Bullret Jazz Club" uses the “Kuben" space at Malmo Live to host performances. On November 20, 2017, it was jazz singer Isabella Lundgren's turn to appear. Accompanied by the Carle Bagge ...