Results for "Mats Gustafsson"

John Sharpe's Best Releases of 2024

by John Sharpe
January 3, 2025

From the 200 or so discs that I heard in 2024, here are the ten new issues and three gems saved from obscurity, which gave me the most pleasure. As always these selections are entirely subjective, and take no account of the many other albums which I would no doubt have loved if I had heard ...

Sustain

By AALY Trio

Label: Silkheart Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Rock Out; W2; Your Prayer; Why I Don't Go Back; Cover Yourself; Soul Brother Genius; Deepfreeze Pretend; Egypt Rock; Dustdiver Kneeling; Albumblatt. Sustained; Rock Out.

Testament

By Mats Gustafsson

Label: Rune Grammofon
Released: 2024
Track listing: Work Song For A Scattered Past; The Dark Inside Of Cabbage; Four Ways Of Dealing With One Way; Running Bison Breathing Entity Sleeping Reality; One Testament One Aim One More To Go Again.

Afro Blue

By Sten Sandell

Label: Trost
Released: 2024
Track listing: Behind The Chords V; Behind The Chords VI; Afro Blue; Improvisation 2 (After The Chords).

AALY TRIO: Sustain

by Mark Corroto
December 19, 2024

The previous recording by the AALY Trio, comprised of saxophonist (and flutist) Mats Gustafsson, double bassist Peter Janson and drummer Kjell Nordeson, was recorded 25 years prior (Double Or Nothing, Okka Disk, 2002). The reunion of this Swedish outfit is cause for celebration. If we rewind the clock a bit, Gustafsson and Janson began ...

Music Unlimited 38

by Luciano Rossetti
December 16, 2024

David Maranha / Rodrigo Amado: Wrecks

by Mark Corroto
December 5, 2024

There was a children's television show that aired every Saturday morning in the 1960s where the host faced the camera while holding up a looking glass. He would say something to this effect: “Hello friends, today I see Billy, Allison, Teddy, etc." Those watching thrilled to hear their name or the name of a sibling or ...

Derek Bailey Sabu Toyozumi: Breath Awareness

by John Sharpe
December 1, 2024

English guitarist Derek Bailey was a regular visitor to Japan, where he was particularly appreciated. Audiences were such that after his first tour in 1978, he reportedly brought home the money to buy a car. As a consequence, he encountered many of the major figures on the country's free improvisation scene, as releases such as Duo ...

Gush: Afro Blue

by John Sharpe
May 21, 2024

Time brings perspective. The three members of the Swedish band Gush--pianist Sten Sandell, drummer Raymond Strid and saxophonist Mats Gustafsson--were amazed at the quality of the music on this archive tape when they heard it again a quarter century after it was recorded, having forgotten about it completely in the interim. And they are right to ...

Sol Sol: Almost All Things Considered

by Chris May
May 19, 2024

Ever since the untimely passing of the pianist Esbjörn Svensson in 2008, and the consequent diminution of his trio's radio-friendly but lightweight style, Sweden's then predominant place in Scandinavian jazz has ceded ground to Norway. So, anyway, do the results of a statistically totally invalid survey of observers in this parish suggest. But ...