Results for "Stockholm"

TheRhythmIsOdd

therhythmisodd play progressive music filled with energy. The base line for this project is Bjorn Egelius: Bass player and also therhythmisodd groove inventor Leif Fredriksson: a Swedish drum legend with more then 30 years of touring, recording and playing worldwide.Leif started his carrier 15 years old only and at the age of 17 he went on tour with Don Cherry. Starting from that Leif been touring together and playing with musicians like Jan Akkerman, Ulf Wakenius, Esbjörn Svensson, Benny Bailey, Barney Kessel, Bebo Valdes, Hannibal Marvin Peterson and many more. There's no lack of exceptionally gifted and talented musicians, producers and organizers, composers, improvisers both professionals and amateurs, but...

Atomic

Atomic comes this close to being a Scandinavian free jazz supergroup. It allies the top line of Fire House and the Fredrik Noren Band (trumpeter Magnus Broo and saxophonist Fredrik Ljungkvist) and the rhythm section from Element (pianist Havard Wiik), bassist Ingebrigt Haker Flaten, and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love. Formed in reaction to the ECM-style of modern jazz that came to equal "Scandinavian jazz" in the minds of music fans worldwide, the group proposes a modernized take on power jazz, drawing from American Fire Music (Archie Shepp, Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman) and '60s European free improv (Peter Brötzmann's Machine Gun).

Katt Hernandez

Born: May 16

Katt Hernandez moved to Stockholm in 2010, and rapidly began working with a great many artists and new music organizations. In addition to solo violin work, she co-founded The Schematics and Deuterium Quartet, and has worked with a host of musicians and others in Sweden's improvised, electronic and experimental music scenes. Katt earned a Masters degree in Electroacoustic Composition from the Royal Music Academy of Sweden in 2014, where she studied with composer Bill Brunson. In 2015 she began a PhD in Music at Lund university, and is also employed at the Royal Music Academy as part of Klas Nevrin's research project on improvisation, Music in Disorder

Fredrik Ljungkvist

Born: November 29, 1969

CV Fredrik Ljungkvist Fredrik Ljungkvist was born in Kristinehamn in Sweden 1969. Brought up in a musical home (his father is a saxophoneplayer as well) he early chosed the path to music. He moved to Stockholm -89 to studie at the Royal Academy of Music and played with some of the leading bands in Stockholm as, Fredrik Norén Band, Lina Nyberg group and Per "Texas" Johansson band. In 1993 he formed his own group (Fredrik Ljungkvist quartet) that also released two CDs (Falling papers 1995 and Sonic space 1997). Fredrik Ljungkvist is considered one of Swedens most talented and interesting saxophoneplayers right now

Mathias Algotsson

Born: 1971

Swedish pianist and composer. More info is available at www.mathiasalgotsson.com

Mika Pohjola

Born: December 1, 1971

Mika Pohjola is a Finnish-born jazz pianist and composer, who resides in New York City. He is one of the most prolific Scandinavian jazz musicians in his generation. Childhood in Helsinki, Finland 1971-87 Mika Pohjola was born in Helsinki, Finland, and grew up in the neighboring city of Vantaa. He received his formal education in a Steiner school, where his first instrument was violin. He then studied drums, and in 1979 piano and basic music theory with his father, Heikki Pohjola, who is a notable Finnish jazz guitarist. In 1982, young Pohjola entered the Helsinki cathedral boy choir, Cantores Minores under the direction of Heinz Hofmann

Holger Gross

Born: March 22, 1943

Hans Backenroth

Playing with Swedish musicans Arne Domn

Alberto Pinton

Born: March 4, 1962

Alberto Pinton is a jazz instrumentalist, composer and educator. He has performed jazz and improvised music since the mid-eighties, on all sizes of saxophones, clarinets and flutes.

His current projects as bandleader are Alberto Pinton’s Relentless, Alberto Pinton Trio, Alberto Pinton Noi Siamo and Alberto Pinton Sestetto Contemporaneo.

He has released sixteen albums of original music with the following constellations: Alberto Pinton Clear Now, Dog Out, Alberto Pinton Quintet, Pinton/Kullhammar/Zetterberg/Nordeson, Alberto Pinton Nascent, Alberto Pinton Noi Siamo, Alberto Pinton Sestetto Contemporaneo, Alberto Pinton Trio, Alberto Pinton Solo & the latest NUQuartet.

David Stackenäs

David Stackenäs was born in 1974 in Stockholm, Sweden. After finishing his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm he has grown to become one of the mainstays of improvised and creative music in Sweden.

Stackenäs works in the field of contemporary jazz and free improvised music. Over the years he has developed a unique way of playing guitar – both prepared with different materials as well as conventional technique and a growing armada of pedals. With a wide range of sounds and techniques he creates music with great imagination and poetry. As a soloist he mainly focuses on acoustic guitars, using a lot of the organic sound- possibillities and timbres the instrument has to offer.