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Introducing Sweden's Havtorn Records
by Eyal Hareuveni
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 ...
Fredrik Ljungkvist / Yun Kan 10: Ten
by Eyal Hareuveni
Acclaimed Swedish reed player Fredrik Ljungkvist's key solo outfit is the Yun Kan band. This band, in its incarnation as a quintet, released two remarkable albums, Yun Kan 12345 and Badaling (Caprice, 2004 and 2007) and in recent years operated in a slimmed down version as Yun Kan 3 and as an ambitious outgrowth of the ...
Pierre Sward Organ Jazz 'n' Soul Group: Slow But Fast
by Chris Mosey
This album poses two problems. First: the electric organ. Even when played by a master like Jimmy Smith, monotony can easily set in. It's something to do with the way the instrument dominates so completely, leaving no space. Problem No.2: funk, the dominant genre on Slow But Fast. The idea is to hit ...
Lisa Ullen / Nina de Heney / Okkyung Lee / Mariam Wallentin
by Eyal Hareuveni
The duo of acclaimed Swedish improvisers pianist Lisa Ullén and double bassist Nina de Heney, winner of the Swedish radio prize Jazzkatten for 2012 as the musician of the year, has been active now for more than four years and was documented on the remarkable double album Carve (LJ Records, 2009). Ullén and de Heney managed ...
David's Angels: What It Seems
by Eyal Hareuveni
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 ...
Take Five With Jens Persson
by AAJ Staff
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 ...
Anders Jormin: Between Always And Never
by Chris Mosey
Anders Jormin leads a remarkably busy life. Bassist with pianist Bobo Stenson's Trio, he has also played with the likes of saxophonists Lee Konitz, Joe Henderson, Charles Lloyd and Joe Lovano, as well as drummers Elvin Jones and Jack DeJohnette. He records under his own name, composes works for symphony orchestras, studies ethnic music in Cuba ...
Alberto Pinton: Nascent
by Eyal Hareuveni
Italian-born, Stockholm-based sax and woodwinds player Alberto Pinton new quartet Nascent = 14719 brings the best of him. Pinton is an experienced and varied musician who honed his art in dozens of recordings as a leader, co-leader-- in his own former quartet and quintet, Dog Out quartet with saxophonist Fredrik Nordström and another collaborative quartet with ...
Luciano Mosetti & Anders Fardal with friends: Ela
by Chris Mosey
Music that is as light and airy as a midsummer night on Södermalm, Stockholm's south island. The feeling is summed up in Mikael Silkeberg's superb cover photo in which Luciano Mosetti and Anders Färdal are pictured stopping for a chat in the early hours on their way home from a gig. The sky behind them, which ...
Under The Psycamore: I
by Glenn Astarita
One of the more satisfying and alluring progressive rock releases of 2012 is presented by the Swedish duo of Jonathan Greiff and Carl Blomqvist with cellist Tora Greiff Bergstrom. They must have been doing something right to garner the attention of album producer; revered Warr guitarist, composer and stylist Trey Gunn (King Crimson, Invisible Rays).
