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Viktoria Tolstoy

The Swedish singer Viktoria Tolstoy was born in the small town of Sigtuna, near Stockholm, in 1974, but she has Russian blood in her veins. Her great-grandfather, the son of the world-famous writer Leo Tolstoy, grew up in Tsarist Russia. He suffered from a nervous illness, sought medical help from a famous Swedish specialist, fell in love with the specialist’s daughter, married her and settled in Sweden at the end of the 19th century. Since then the ancestors of Viktoria, the greatgreat-granddaughter of the legendary novelist, have lived in Sweden. Viktoria’s childhood and adolescence were spent in Uppsala

Up North

By Janno Trump

Label: OÜ Trumbi Muusika
Released: 2022
Track listing: 1. Lighthouse 2. It’s About Time 3. Reflections 4. The Children of Osdorp 5. Sacred Soul 6. Equation No 4 7. City Romance (feat. Viktoria Tolstoy) 8. Melting 9. Up North

Jacob Karlzon 3: More

by Bruce Lindsay
August 24, 2012

Pianist/composer Jacob Karlzon--Swedish Radio's 2010 Jazz Musician Of The Year--is difficult to pigeonhole. He's an improviser, a solo artist, a composer and an accompanist, with a longstanding musical relationship with singer Viktoria Tolstoy. In his 20-year career he's released half a dozen albums under his own name and appeared on around 40 others. The Jacob Karlzon ...

5 Trios

By Bob Downes

Label:
Released: 2011
Track listing: 1. Living It Up in Rio (Downes) - 5:41; 2. Desert Waltz (Downes) - 4:43; 3. Circus (Downes) - 4:50; 4. Moonstruck (Downes) - 11:22; 5. Bamboo Blaze (Downes) - 4:18; 6. Spooks (Downes) - 7:40; 7. Mirage (Downes) - 5:24; 8. Ghosts In Space (Downes) - 7:06; 9. Ready Steady Blow (Downes) - 4:27; 10. Soul City (Downes) - 4:44; 11. Lonely Street Blues (Downes) - 5:16; 12. Maya (Downes) - 4:38.

Letters To Herbie

By Viktoria Tolstoy

Label: Blue Note
Released: 2011

Bob Downes Open Music: 5 Trios

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 22, 2011

Forse pochi ricordano Bob Downes, il virtuoso del flauto, polistrumentista e compositore. Fece parlare di sè nella prima metà degli anni Settanta per le sue pirotecniche incursioni, sotto il nome di Bob Downes Open Music, nei generi più disparati, incrociando le sue ance con la musica d'avanguardia e l'elettronica, anticipando movimenti che negli anni successivi si ...

Siegfried Loch: 50 Years on the Music-Making Scene

by R.J. DeLuke
March 31, 2010

With a half-century in the music recording business, Siegfried Loch, known to friends and associates as Siggi, has had a huge impact on the jazz music scene in Europe. Jazz isn't the only thing he's been involved in as a producer over all those years, but having his own jazz label--ACT Music, based in Munich, Germany--was ...

Jacob Karlzon: Heat / Improvisational Three

by Chris Mosey
May 26, 2009

Jacob Karlzon is one of the most interesting pianists on today's Swedish jazz scene--percussive, intense, yet capable of great lyricism. Unwilling to be pigeonholed, he plays in a great many different constellations, most visibly with vocalist Viktoria Tolstoy, great granddaughter of Leo, for whom he composes and arranges. At the age of 39, Karlzon has already ...

My Russian Soul

By Viktoria Tolstoy

Label: Blue Note
Released: 2008

Pictures Of Me

By Viktoria Tolstoy

Label: ACT Music
Released: 2007
Track listing: Women Of Santiago; Have A Good Time; South; Te Amo Corazon; Two Sails; Kiss That Frog; Absentee; Strollin'; Don't Make Me Wait; Can't Help It; Green Little Butterfly; The Way Young Lovers Do; Old And Wise.