When Don Cherry arrived in Sweden, it was a country where jazz had been overtaken by pop music and where there...

Red Mitchell is well known as one of the most innovative bassists on the jazz scene. His artistic versatility may...

Before recording the second album in the Improvisational series, Mats Öberg’s headstrong interpretations of...

This record is a portrait of Lars Sjösten (1941-2011) - jazz pianist, arranger, and composer, and for his entire...

The 1976 Jazz in Sweden award was given to jazz quintet Opposite Corner from Gothenburg. The group was one of the...

Equinox was elected by readers of the musical magazines Orkester Journalen and Tonfallet as the jazz group most in...

The jazz quartet Birka was formed in Stockholm in 1976 by the drummer Rune Carlsson. Its name came naturally, as...

The winner of the 1985 Jazz in Sweden award was the group Wail from Malmö in southern Sweden. They started as a...

In 1980, Fredrik Norén Band won the award ”Jazz in Sweden”. Only a decade before, one could often hear jazz...

Björn Alke’s Quartet was founded in 1973, and performed, from the very beginning, a highly personal music:...

The 1979 Jazz in Sweden prize was awarded to Mount Everest, a group founded in Gothenburg in 1970. In the...

The group Förklädd Gud ("God in Disguise") started in the beginning of the 1970’s and from 1976 with the...

Änglaspel (Angel Chimes) was elected by the readers of the musical magazines Tonfallet and Orkester Journalen as...

Soul Train was led by the nowadays well known Swedish vocalist Claes Janson and keyboardist Staffan Abeleen...

Tommy Koverhult (1945-2010) had, before these recordings, for many years been reputed as one of the foremost tenor...

The name Entra Camaleón is a phrase that drummer Anders Kjellberg picked up when he visited Cuba at the end of the...