Jeanette Lindstrom

Jeanette Lindström is the jazz singer that prompted legendary producer Quincy Jones to voice the portentous words: "An old soul in a young singer". And also: "She really understands what jazz is all about!" The year was 1995 and Jeanette Lindström made her major breakthrough, on a broad front. The calendar tells us it’s now a different year, and today Jeanette Lindström is one of Sweden's most prized jazz singers.

Jeanette Lindström is one of Sweden’s leading jazz singers and composers. In January she won a Swedish Grammis for Best Jazz Album of the Year with her latest album "Attitude & Orbit Control". She has that ability to set the imagination of the listener in movement - with her voice, her music as well as with her words. Her sixth solo album Attitude & Orbit Control is hard proof. A space odessey of sorts, interpersonal as well as interstellar. Micro- as well as macrocosmic forces at play. Fellow travelers include co-writing guest vocalist Robert Wyatt, a new band and new co-producer and drummer Magnus �-ström of e.s.t. as well as lyric contributor Sidsel Endresen. Jeanette Lindström wanted to move on, this time further than before. To write in a new way, to concentrate more on production and instrumentation. She wanted it to really be "Jeanette-music", whatever that would sound like.

Since her albums in 2005 and 2006, "In The Middle Of This Riddle" (original material) and "Whistling Away the Dark" (jazz classics) she has changed record label, started a new band, and further developed her sound, moving forward musically - a long journey with interesting and important encounters. "To work with Robert Wyatt has meant a lot and has been very gratifying. My co-work with Magnus has been decisive, his input tremendously important. We have worked hard and intensely and without him this album would not have become what it has. And of course I am immensely happy and proud of the new band. They are all important parts of this creation." The result is a fresh band that takes on strong tunes, with a focus on pop-like structures, chiselled arrangements and sound. All in all, a totality characterized by its playfulness and seriousness.

Jeanette recorded her debut CD, Another Country, in 1995, after being awarded the “Jazz In Sweden”-prize. She has always been an artist keen to tour, and her travels have since brought her to many parts of the world, the Nordic countries as well as France, Belgium, UK, Japan and Canada.

Composing and performing her own music and lyrics has always played a central role in Jeanette’s musicianship. In 2003 she recorded the album Walk, and in 2005 In The Middle Of This Riddle was released. These two albums consist mainly of her own compositions, and were unanimously praised by both press and audiences. The same goes for her latest release Attitude & Orbit Control, also comprised mainly of original material (one cover, The Flaming Lips’ song All We Have Is Now, the only exception).

Gear

Neumann KMS 105