Results for "Sweden"

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Filip Jers Quartet: Filip Jers Quartet Plays Swedish Folk

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by Chris Mosey
November 30, 2015

A difficult one, this: harmonica player Felip Jers and his quartet the latest in a long line of artists attempting to put a jazz slant on Swedish folk music. It all started in the 1960s when pianist Jan Johansson scored a massive hit with an EP and later an LP titled Jazz På Svenska (Jazz In ...

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Bengt Berger / Jonas Knutsson / Christian Spering / Max Schultz: Blue Blue

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by Eyal Hareuveni
November 27, 2015

The Swedish trio of drummer Bengt Berger, saxophonist Jonas Knutsson and bassist Christian Spering has been working for 19 years, often hosting different musicians-friends. This versatile trio aesthetics blended natural elements of modern jazz with East-Asian and West-African rhythms and Swedish folk music. The trio was voted as the Swedish jazz group of the year more ...

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Mathias Algotsson: Home At Work

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by Chris Mosey
November 21, 2015

Mathias Algotsson takes his lead from Jan Johansson, probably the most influential jazz pianist ever in Sweden. Johansson, a brilliant accompanist who played with nearly all the greats from the States who visited Scandinavia in the post-war period, delighted in mixing genres, also playing folk songs and composing for film and television. His ...

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Oddjob: Folk

by Dan McClenaghan
November 13, 2015

In the mood for a snifter of schnapps, a kick back in the easy chair and a night soaking in some Swedish folk songs, tunes centered, for the most part, around the tradition of herding and goat calling? Aside from the schnapps part, that may seem like a lame idea, but the very progressive Swedish jazz/rock ...

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Stockholm Jazz Festival 2015

by John Ephland
November 9, 2015

Stockholm Jazz Festival Stockholm, Sweden October 9-18, 2015 The sleeper at this year's Stockholm Jazz Festival, and one this reviewer initially found more a curiosity than anything else, oddly enough was downright riveting, not to mention the first evening's headliner. More in the category of being a name crossover artist ...

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Daniel Westin Quartet's Debut Album Notes Renowned In International And Domestic Press

November 5, 2015

The Daniel Westin Quartet released their debut album Notes at the Swedish record label Strangers Candy in May 2015 and has since reached out to international blogs, newspapers as well as domestic media. In the autumn of 2015 the album was among the most played jazz albums on national Danish jazz radio, DR P8 Jazz. Notes ...

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Jag vet en dejlig rosa (A Beautiful Rose): Come Rain or Come Shine

Read "Come Rain or Come Shine" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
October 30, 2015

Stockholm Voices is a Swedish jazz vocal quartet who join the company of Manhattan Transfer, New York Voices and the newly minted London, Meader, Pramuk and Ross. But, Stockholm Voices brings something very different to the tables in the way of a retrospective style. Rather than the bebop lightening bolts thrown off by the greater field ...

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Carin Lundin: What Now My Love?

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by Chris Mosey
October 3, 2015

Carin Lundin is a class act, one of Sweden's best jazz singers. She hangs in there year on year, ably fending off the challenge of newer arrivals, without ever getting the full recognition she so richly deserves. In 2005 her disk, “Songs We All Recognize" was named one of the year's best albums ...

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Thomas Fonnesbaek: Where We Belong

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by Chris Mosey
September 27, 2015

Aficionados increasingly see Danish bassist Thomas Fonnesbaek as a successor to the late, great Nils-Henning Orsted Pedersen. He is heard here as part of a trio featuring Swedish pianist Lars Jansson, the format that established his reputation. The album consists primarily of Fonnesbaek's own compositions and others put together on the spot with ...

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Halperin/Nyberg Connection: Snow Tiger

Read "Snow Tiger" reviewed by James Pearse

by James Pearse
September 23, 2015

There is no such thing as a 'snow tiger.' The closest species that exists is the Siberian tiger but they are the same colour as their Indian cousins (white tigers are “circus-bred mutants" according to the BBC). So, you may ask, what does this creature have to do with a cross-generational collaboration between a pioneer of ...