Results for "Malmo"

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Swedish indie label Volenza relaunches

by Chris Mosey
April 3, 2014

At the age of 82, Torgil Rosenberg has decided that the time has come to take a back seat in the running his Swedish independent jazz label Volenza. “It's time for a new generation to take over," he says, “My future role in the company will be a purely advisory one."

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Konvoj Ensemble: Colors Of:

Read "Colors Of:" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
March 4, 2014

The Konvoj Ensemble is a Pan-European quintet based in Malmö, Sweden, and run by Swedish saxophonist Ola Paulson. This quintet is comprised of experienced free improvisers--Danish saxophonist Lotte Anker and lap-top player Jakob Riis, Lithuanian saxophonist Liudas Mockūnas, and Swedish drummer Anders Uddeskog, augmented for its debut recording by British sax legend Evan Parker and Swedish ...

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Magnus Ostrom: Searching For Jupiter

Read "Searching For Jupiter" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
October 21, 2013

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 ...

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Tolvan Big Band: Effortlessly - Music by Helge Albin

Read "Effortlessly - Music by Helge Albin" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
October 13, 2013

Swedish saxophonist, composer and arranger Helge Albin has led the Tolvan Big Band since 1979. Albin turned this ambitious, up-to-date big band, located in Malmö in southern Sweden, into a musical institution with an international reputation. They have collaborated with notable American musicians such as Dizzy Gillespie, Dave Liebman and Michael Brecker, British composer Mike Westbrook ...

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Introducing Sweden's Havtorn Records

by Eyal Hareuveni
May 30, 2013

The new Swedish label, Havtorn Records, was founded in 2011 by three musicians-- drummer Måns Wikenmo, bassist Donovan von Martens and pianist Oscar Johansson. The three longed to create a label that would also be a platform for a community of a new generation of musicians, most of them residing in the cities of Malmö and ...

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David's Angels: What It Seems

Read "What It Seems" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
April 10, 2013

The Swedish quartet David's Angels has proven in its debut release, Substar (Kopasetic, 2010), its ability to encompass emotionally charged issues with expressive, storytelling musical articulations. The sophomore release puts this approach in a more demanding test. What It Seems chronicles the demise of a meaningful love affair and its protagonist, singer-songwriter Sofie Norling making the ...

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Take Five With Jens Persson

by AAJ Staff
April 9, 2013

Meet Jens Persson: Started playing the alto saxophone when I was about 14. The music was mostly swing and bebop in the beginning but has developed over the years.I play in all kinds of bands: swing, reggae, free improv, big bands and more.I have my own group, Perssons Sexa (Perssons Six), which ...

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Tony Malaby/ Per-Oscar Nilsson / Johnny Aman / Peter Nilsson: 9 Stygn

Read "9 Stygn" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
March 20, 2013

The sophomore release of Swedish guitarist Per-Oscar Nilsson strengthens his ties with American jazz. His debut, Now! (Connective, 2010), with his own group, featured saxophonist Marcus Strickland. 9 Stygn, recorded a year later, features Nilsson as the main composer for a quartet comprised of saxophonist Tony Malaby and fellow Malmö bassist Johnny Åman, who collaborated with ...

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Jonas Holgersson: 4003

by Chris Mosey
February 15, 2013

Four young Swedish musicians and one expat Englishman attempt to reverently recreate hard bop from the 1950s and '60s. The title, 4003, was the catalogue number for Art Blakey's Moanin' (Blue Note, 1958). The album features 12 numbers, most of them considered classics, by the likes of saxophonists Hank Mobley and Clifford Jordan, guitarist Grant Green, ...

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Thomas Fonnesbaek: Sound Of My Colors

Read "Sound Of My Colors" reviewed by Chris Mosey

by Chris Mosey
February 11, 2013

So what is the difference between “Thomas Fonnesbaek, featuring Lars Jansson and Paul Svanberg," the billing for this album, and the Lars Jansson Trio, which features Jansson on piano, Thomas Fonnesbaek on bass and Paul Svanberg on drums? Well, it's all to do with emphasis. Fonnesbaek wrote nine songs for this, his debut ...