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Ulf Wakenius: Momento Magico
by Bruce Lindsay
Momento Magico is a solo outing from Swedish guitarist Ulf Wakenius, an exploration of three acoustic instruments--steel and nylon strung guitars and acoustic bass guitar. Wakenius undertakes this exploration across a mix of self-penned tunes and works by writers as varied as Erik Satie, Charles Trenet and Sixto Rodrigues. Wakenius is an impressively adaptable ...
Daniel Karlsson Trio: Das Taxibat
by Ian Patterson
When not driving a taxi boat around Stockholm's archipelago, pianist Daniel Karlsson is best known as the pianist/organist in drummer Magnus Öström's band and the award-winning, Swedish jazz-fusion quintet Oddjob. The latter's chameleon-like shifts have encompassed funk and chill-out, jazz takes on Ennio Morricone's Western themes and, on JAZOO (Headspin Records, 2013), jazz--of a sophisticated kind--for ...
Searching For Jupiter
Label: ACT Music
Released: 2013
Track listing: The Moon (And The Air It Moves); Dancing At The Dutchtreat; Mary Jane Doesn't Live Here Anymore; Searching For Jupiter; Hour Of The Wolf; Through The Sun; Happy And The Fall; Jules And Jim's Last Voyage; At The End Of Eternity.
City Nights: City Nights
by Ian Patterson
Formed in the spring of 2012, the Swedish quartet City Nights may be relatively young but its four members are all well established in jazz and pop circles in Stockholm. The jazz element in the band is provided by electric guitarist Andreas Hourdakis--of drummer Magnus Ostrom's band--and trumpeter/keyboard player Nils Janson, whose measured melodic lines contrast ...
Magnus Ostrom: Searching For Jupiter
by Ian Patterson
Time is the great healer. Certainly there are signs that the two years since Thread of Life (ACT Music, 2011)--drummer/composer Magnus Öström's emotionally charged debut as leader--have helped him better cope with the death in 2008 of pianist Esbjorn Svensson-- his colleague of 15 years in the influential trio e.s.t. That album's cover showed a bare-chested ...
Magnus Ostrom Band at Ronnie Scott's
by Jamie Skey
Magnus Ostrom Ronnie Scott's London September 16, 2013 “What guarantee do we have that the future will come? That we will be able to experience it? We generally live in our Western society separated from death. We don't think about it. Talk seldom about it. Suppress it preferably. But suddenly, it ...
Magnus Ostrom at Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, Ireland
by Ian Patterson
Magnus ÖströmSolstice Arts CentreNavan, IrelandSeptember 20, 2013 That Magnus Öström's quartet made it to Navan at all was good going given that the band's previous gig had been on a Scottish island boasting no fewer than eight whisky distilleries. The Scottish--as the quartet discovered--take their whisky and their hospitality seriously. That ...
Magnus Ostrum Plays Navan & Carrick-on-shannon, Ireland
Magnus Öström (e.s.t - The Esbjorn Svensson Trio) plays two Irish dates only to celebrate the release of his new album, Searching for Jupiter (ACT Music, 2013). Magnus Öström has confidently stepped out of EST's huge shadow to assert himself as a central figure in the Scandinavian Jazz scene, with his debut album Thread of Life ...
Magnus Ostrom: Searching For Jupiter
by Bruce Lindsay
For fifteen years Magnus Öström was the drummer with the Esbjörn Svensson Trio, known to many as e.s.t. For much of that time e.s.t. was one of the most successful jazz bands in the world, an innovative yet accessible group that seemed poised for ever greater success. When Svensson died in a diving accident in June ...
Garana Jazz Festival 2013
by Adriana Carcu
Garana Jazz FestivalWolf's MeadowGarana, RomaniaJuly 11-14, 2013For four days each summer, a village in the Western Carpathians becomes the Mecca for the Romanian jazz fans, and an ever-growing number of Europeans. For the 17th time the Bohemian colony Garana (Wolfsberg is its German name) has hosted an event of growing importance ...
