Chapter Seven "Thumbs Up"

Thums Up

Chapter Seven

The Jazz in Sweden award in 1988 was given to the  Chapter Seven group. The founder of the group, Bengt Berger,...

Lulu Alke

Lulu Alke

Lulu Alke

It was a landslide victory for the 1989 Jazz in Sweden winner Lulu Alke.Over the years the critics have written...

Encore

Encore

Jazz in Sweden – 1990

At the end of 1989, a jury of ten well-known figures within the Swedish jazz world chose the group Encore to put...

Stina Nordenstam

Stina Nordenstam

Memories of a Color

Jonas Knutsson: Views

Views

Jonas Knutsson

Jonas Knutsson’s was elected to do the Jazz in Sweden record in 1992. The motivation was that Jonas Knutsson...

Max Schulz, guitar

Max Schulz

Guitar

The 1993 Jazz in Sweden award was given to Max Schultz. According to the jury Max had developed a clever and...

Jazz Furniture

Jazz Furniture

Magnus Broo/Per ”Texas” Johansson/Fredrik Ljungkvist/Esbjörn Svensson, Dan Berglund/Magnus Öström

Jazz Furniture was the name of a jazz group that spoke for themselves. They did this by, among other means,...

Jeanette Lindström Quintet: Another Country

Another Country

Jeanette Lindström Quintet

Before the 1995 year Jazz in Sweden CD had been released, few people had ever heard of Jeanette Lindström....

Amanda Sedgwick: Volt

Volt

Amanda Sedgwick

The 1996 Jazz in Sweden award went to saxophone player Amanda Sedgwick. She has composed the music on this CD...

Blue Pages

Blue Pages

Blue Pages

The Jazz in Sweden award 1997 was given to the group Blue Pages. It consisted of the two saxophone players...

Harald Svensson "Vanished into the Blue"

Harald Svensson

Vanished into the Blue

The idea behind the Jazz in Sweden award was always to promote younger artists who were not yet established and...

Magnus Lindgren "Way out"

Way out

Magnus Lindgren

This is the 1999 Jazz in Sweden award, Way out.  Magnus Lindgren was born in 1974 and grew up in the town of...

Johan Borgstöm Smile and be serious

Johan Borgström

Smile and be serious

The saxophonist Johan Borgström was given the Jazz in Sweden award in 2000, and redorded the CD “Smile and be...

Lindha Svantesson: Far from Alone

Lindha Svantesson

Far from Alone

Jazz in Sweden award 2001, Lindha Svantesson (nowadays Lindha Kallerdahl) has broad-ranging musical experience:...

Fredrik Nordström: On Purpose

On Purpose

Fredrik Nordström

The Jazz in Sweden cd, 2002 was On purpose with saxophonist/composer Fredrik Nordström. Born in Sandviken,...

Josefine Cronholm och IBIS: Hotel Paradise

Hotel Paradise

Josefine Cronholm & Ibis

Jazz in Sweden prize winner 2003, Josefine Cronholm, comes from Småland in southern Sweden. Since the middle of...