Jeanette Lindstrom

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Born: May 29, 1971 Primary Instrument: Vocal

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).

Last Updated: December 17, 2010

”Lindstrom sings in such a way as to invite the listener into her own world. Like waking up on a warm summer day, welcomed by birds singing. It's a world full of depth, dimension and beauty. - Jazzreview.com

“...a real spacewalk that takes off in the personal and lands among the stars.” - Dagens Nyheter Review 5/5

“Attitude & Orbit Control is Jeanette Lindström's best album so far, may as well say it right away” - Svenska Dagbladet (Sweden)

“Lindström is breaking new ground by taking care of everything. She’s a singer/songwriter in jazz. And that really means a difference.” - Dagens Nyheter (Sweden)

“With great ease she weaves together different directions, musicians and traditions from Northern European jazz, something which gives a broad frame of reference for an international audience.” - Musikkguiden groove.no (Norway)

Attitude & Orbit Control
2009 Diesel (C-40)
Jeanette Lindström Jeanette Lindström - vocals, grand piano, Fender Rhodes
Andreas Hourdakis – guitars, banjo, mandolin
Jonas Östholm – grand piano, Wurlitzer, Fender Rhodes, organ, voice
Thobias Gabrielson – electric bass
Magnus Öström – drums, percussion, electronics, vibraphone, guitars, syntheseizers, voice
Guest appearances by:
Robert Wyatt – vocals, trumpet
Rickard Krantz – pedal steel
Åke Skommar – church organ
David Lindvall – electric bass
Ola Hultgren – drums, percussion
Jonas Lindgård – violin
Svante Henryson – cello
Tracks: We Would; All We Have Is Now; Morning; River; You Say; Scenery; Scenery Postludium; Blue Room Yellow Tree; Lament; River feat. Robert Wyatt; Spacetalk; Spacewalk
Produced by Magnus Öström & Jeanette Lindström
Jeanette Lindström LEAF
The KING BRITT Remixes
2007 Amigo (AMCDS 201)
Jeanette Lindström LEAF (EP)
Tracks: Leaf - King Britt Scuba Mix; Leaf - King Britt Scuba Ambient Mix Remix and additional production by King Britt for FiveSixMedia.
Mixed and Engineered by King Britt @ The Hut, Philly.
P & C 2007 Amigo Musik - a division of Bonnier Amigo Music Group
Whistling Away the Dark
2006 Amigo (AMCD 916)
Jeanette Lindström Jeanette Lindström - vocals
Bobo Stenson - piano (1, 2, 4, 5, 7)
Jonas Östholm - piano (3, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15), pump organ (12)
Palle Danielsson - double bass
Magnus Öström - drums
Tracks: Whistling Away the Dark; My One and Only Love; You Go to My Head; I Didn't Know What Time It Was; Jitterbug Waltz; The Nearness of You; Lush Life; Misty; Nature Boy; Peace; Night and Day; Too Marvelous for Words; What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?; When There Is Love; Grow Old with Me In The Middle Of This Riddle
2005 Amigo (AMCD 909)
Jeanette Lindström Jeanette Lindström - vocals, piano, claviola
Staffan Svensson - trumpet
Peter Nylander - guitar
Daniel Karlsson - piano, keyboards
Christian Spering - double bass
Peter Danemo - drums, percussion
Jonas Lindgren - violin
Örjan Högberg - viola
Mattias Helldén - cello
Tracks: Always; From This Tower; The World; You Could Rely On Me; End; Leaf; Too; Going Up; Here; When Things Get Real; Be There; Too (Take 1) WALK
2003 Amigo (AMCD 895)
Jeanette Lindström Jeanette Lindström - vocals
Staffan Svensson - trumpet
Peter Nylander - guitar
Daniel Karlsson - piano, keyboards
Severi Pyysalo - vibraphone
Christian Spering - double bass
Peter Danemo - drums, percussion
Ale Möller - lute, hammered dulcimer
Tracks: Intro; This Time; Walk; Reasons; Trains and Boats and Planes; Turning Pages; Interlude 1; Waiting; The Two Lonely People; I Run; Interlude 2; Where Is Wolfgang?; What Remains; Closer; That Sorry School; Keeping Things Whole Feathers
2000 Prophone Records (PCD 053)
Jeanette Lindström - vocals
Steve Dobrogosz - piano
Tracks: Butterfly; Never Let Me Go; The Look Of Love; Love Makes You Suffer; Both Sides; Now; My Hands; Almost Blue; Like Water; Moon River; To Whom It May Concern; Future Window; You Are There; Deep Space Sinatra/Weill
1999 Caprice Records (CAP 216 24)
Jeanette Lindström, Norrbotten Big Band & Norrbotten Chamber Orchestra Tim Hagans, Kenny Werner Arrangements by Kenny Werner and Tim Hagans.
Tracks: Speak Low; My Ship; The Tender Trap; Blame It On My Youth; Fly Me To The Moon; Lonely House; All My Tomorrows; The Lady Is A Tramp; Lost In The Stars
A joint production Caprice Records & Norrbottensmusiken I Saw You
1997 Caprice Records (CAP 215 49)
Jeanette Lindström Quintet
Jeanette Lindström - vocals
Örjan Hultén - saxophones
Torbjörn Gulz - piano & fender rhodes
Christian Spering - double bass
Anders Kjellberg - drums
Tracks: I Saw You; Love Comes Quietly; He Says; My Hands; Couldn't You Try; The Color; The Change; Gracie's Piano & The 25th Key; The Colder the Air; "Oh, Love..."; Stockholm; The Wait Once
1997 Dragon Records (DRCD 308)
Anders Jormin - bass, electric bass, arrangements
Thomas Gustafson - tenor and soprano saxophones
Jeanette Lindström - vocals
Jarle Vespestad - drums, percussion
Tracks: Once Upon A Summertime; What Reason Could I Give; Natt; Lost In The Stars; Tveten; Allt under himmelens fäste; På kryss med monsunen; Q; Preluduo; Olivia Another Country
1995 Caprice Records (CAP 214 80)
Jeanette Lindström Quintet
Jeanette Lindström - vocals
Örjan Hultén - saxophones
Torbjörn Gulz - piano
Dan Berglund - double bass
Magnus Öström - drums & percussion
Tracks: Never Will I Marry; Another Country; All the World's A Stage; It Don't Come Easy; Cold; The Answer; Meeting; Lonely House; Wives and Lovers; White Lady in the Window; Competition; Speak Low
Jeanette also appears on Saint-Germain des-Prés Café "the finest nu-jazz compilation" Volume 7 (Wagram Music 2005)

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