Lasse Lindgren

Lasse Lindgren Big Constellation: The Unrecorded Fox

by Jack Bowers
July 3, 2018

When it comes to playing high-note jazz trumpet, the late great Maynard Ferguson was, is and perhaps always will be the standard to which every specialist in that limited field aspires. Yes, there have been assorted claimants--Cat Anderson, Ziggy Elman, Jon Faddis, Dave Stahl, Eric Miyashiro, Wayne Bergeron and Dennis Noday spring to mind--but no one has yet come close to equaling Ferguson's near-superhuman command of his horn at the stratospheric level. Sweden's Lasse Lindgren is also ...