Tobias Sjogren

Tobias Sjogren and Per Jorgensen: Unspoken Songs

by AAJ Staff
September 22, 2006

Music is a conversation, but it can also be many conversations. Some are pure expression, others are polemical, others yet shared whispers. But if there's genuine dialogue in the exchange between the speaker and the listener, then the ideas and feelings wend their way down a communal, expanding path. There is also another kind of conversation that we rarely have time for these days: the one with yourself.

With Unspoken Songs, guitarist Tobias Sjögren and vocalist/trumpeter Per Jørgensen have produced ...

Lars Danielsson: Libera Me

by John Kelman
October 19, 2004

When the bonus track on an album is the most adventurous piece, you know there might be trouble. And that's not to say that bassist Lars Danielsson's latest album, Libera Me , is bad; it isn't. In a year where we've seen other artists mesh jazz improvisation with an orchestra, most notably pianist Steve Kuhn with Promises Kept (ECM) and Charlie Mariano with Not Quite a Ballad (Intuition), it has come to pass that these two disparate concepts--the obvious demand ...