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Sverre Gjørvad: Elegy Of Skies
by Friedrich Kunzmann
Sverre Gjørvad's 2019 offering Voi River (Losen Records) saw the Norwegian drummer painting minimalist sketches that mirrored his native environment. Taking up that thematic thread, his follow up effort opts for the gaze upward, reflecting on Norway's firmament in a musical Elegy of Skies. As compared to the predecessor, Gjørvad's 2020 sketchbook of ideas is even more melodically concise, conceptually stringent and technically refined. It sees him in expressive and sensitive interplay with a quartet that always seems to know ...
read moreJoakim Milder, Fredrik Ljungkvist, Pär-Ola Landin, Christopher Cantillo: Trädet
by Luca Casarotti
Chi fosse alla ricerca di un disco che rievoca l'estetica del free jazz degli albori senza suonare inattuale, può ascoltare questo Trädet. Il lavoro, allo stesso tempo di recupero e rinnovamento del linguaggio, è ben svolto da un quartetto collaborativo (cioè senza leader) al suo esordio discografico, ma composto da musicisti già affermati: il sassofonista Joakim Milder, il sassofonista e clarinettista Fredrik Ljungkvist, il bassista Pär-Ola Landin e il batterista Christopher Cantillo. Nelle formazioni ...
read moreMilder - Ljungkvist - Landæus - Augustson - Rundqvist: The Music Of Anders Garstedt
by Angelo Leonardi
Non era il debole sole del Nord ad animare la musica di Anders Garstedt ma un coinvolgimento nel modern mainstream anni cinquanta, sia statunitense che europeo. Parliamo al passato perchè il trombettista svedese è scomparso a soli trentun anni nel 2000. Era nato a Karlstad la città prospicente il lago Vänern e dopo aver studiato il folklore del suo Paese e il jazz negli Stati Uniti, aveva operato come trombettista e autore nella Fredrik Norén Band. Lo si può ascoltare ...
read moreNils Lindberg / Margareta Bengtson: As We Are
by Chris Mosey
With climate change and recent weather, the Shakespearean sonnet Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?" would seem to have become a trifle outmoded. Still, where there's a Will there's a way and Nils Lindberg has set the piece to music.
Lindberg is a true Renaissance man. From his home in Gagnef, a small village deep in the forests of the Swedish province of Dalecarlia, he emerges every now and again to dazzle us ordinary mortals with his many ... read moreJoakim Milder: Monolithic
by Matthew Wuethrich
When Louis Armstrong laid down his Hot Five and Hot Seven sessions, he defined jazz as a soloist's art. Since his compact ruminations, generations of players have allowed the solo to define their identity and their composing. Think of Coleman Hawkins' Body and Soul," Bud Powell's titanic keyboard workouts, Miles Davis opening new modal spaces on So What" and John Coltrane's cataclysmic reworking of My Favorite Things"—these were pinnacles of how the solo has driven jazz composition to date.
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