From Gothenburg Sweden comes this young band that’s eager to create something different. From the foundation in jazz and improvisation to inspiration from other genres, they search for the new and undiscovered in order to make their own sound.
From the band’s very beginning they have had a mutual musical understanding which has grown and developed into a playful way of making songs that has an original sound.
2011Johan Christoffersen won the soloist prize in 2011 as part of the Johan Christoffersen Trio.
The trio consist of a graduate and two existing students of the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. Johan Christoffersson is despite his young age a remarkable musician. From a base etched in 60s jazz, he embarks on a musical journey, in search of his own evasive limitations. With him on his journey are his equally daring and skilful companions - Petter Olofsson on bass and Konrad Agnas behind the drums. Together, they work tirelessly hard to establish themselves as representatives of the new generation of jazz musicians and can be found playing at venues in and around Sweden.
The Isabel Sörling group from Sweden is characterised by their dramatic interaction and music in which composed parts mix with free improvisation in an engaging way. They grab the audience with their intensity and presence.
2009
Naoko Sakata Trio combines three unique, individual musical voices that embrace the listener in landscapes of beauty and exploding improvisations. Contrasts between simplicity and complexity, tenderness to natural outbursts are exposed within the groups energy. Their repertoire has its fundamental grounding in free improvisation expressed within their original compositions.
The quintet was started in 2007 and plays compositions by Kristin Amparo.
In the suite "Just the beginning", I write about my life, my background and how it has effected me. My lyrics are straightforward,unpolished and together with the melodic compositions it makes an interesting enviroment for improvisation.
Welcome to enjoy a concert that will take you from minimalism to explosion.
This band from Stockholm was chosen at the Swedish Jazz Celebration in Luleå to represent Sweden at the Nordic YNJC-finale in Mariehamn.
"Med övertygande briljans och känslomässig bredd skapar de sin musik med stark scennärvaro och smittande lekfullhet".
Lekverk is razor-sharp jazz with unexpected and daredevil maneuvers
Lekverk is a trio in the truest sense. A whole composed of three parts where no accompaniment. The listener is invited into musical univers where everything is important and nothing is wrong. Lekverk conveys equal parts seriousness and serenity as spontaneous and contagious joy and their music is both Nordic reverent and rousing rhythmic and swinging.
"De har blivit kallade landets allra främsta unga jazzband för sin förmåga att försvara jazzens traditioner samtidigt som de tillför något nytt. I andra sammanhang kallas de "bäst i den svenska hiphopklassen".
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