When you have the pleasure to meet a lot of people, as you do as a musician, you often talk about starting different projects. Could be a new band or a recording or just a concert. Because of lack of time or different circumstances it’s not always happening… Dan Johanssons and my band started as […]
If you have read some of my earlier post, or if you know me, you know I love to play in great Big Bands! So off course, I’m very happy when I get the chance to sub for Sweden’s greatest tenor sound, my colleague, friend and amazing musician Karl-Martin Almqvist in Ann-Sofi Söderqvist Jazz Orchestra! […]
Ett meddelande till alla saxofonister i Sverige! Nu finns Aaron Drakes munstycken på Jonas Näslund i Stockholm. Åk dit och provspela deras fantastiska munstycken! Jag har spelat på deras munstycken senaste fyra åren och varit otroligt nöjd! Bra välgjorda munstycken med bra respons. Utan att har för mycket karaktär känns det som att de projicerar […]
After a very nice summer, it’s time for new concerts and projects during autumn! During the summer I’ve done a lot of great concerts. Concerts in small places on the countryside, and gigs on festivals together with Håkan Broströms New Places Orchestra, and I played with Mats Holmqvist Stora Stygga celebrating Polar Prize Winner Wayne […]
The last years I’ve had the pleasure to play with many of the musicians I’ve been listening to for years, and the ones who has been my big inspires! After a couple of gigs in big band constellations, Dan Johansson and I decided to start a small group together. In January we did the […]
For a long time, Billy Strayhorn has been one of my favorite composers! After a couple of bars, you can hear one of those characteristic melodic motives, or a typical harmonic progression, and you know you are listening to music of Billy Strayhorn. When I recorded my album, I wanted to add a standard tune […]
I will give a report from a very nice autumn! As I wrote before, I love to play with great big bands. And this autumn I will play with four of Swedens best bands! Håkan Broströms New Places Orchestra, Blue House Jazz Orchestra, Peter Asplund Big Band, and the Glenn Miller Orchestra. We will […]
Upcoming weekend I have the pleasure to play with some really great musicians! Erik Söderlind and I realised that we’ve just played in big bands together, and put this ”small band” project together. We’re very happy to invite Ben Paterson and Kristian Leth from USA and Denmark! And very happy Hans Backenroth will play with […]
It went for vaccation to Barcelona, but off course I had to stop by the great saxophoneshop Sax On! I meet the very nice saxophoneplayer Miguel Fernández who works in the store, and I tried some great horns and mouthpieces. I also did this comparison between two different Aaron Drake mouthpieces. One Jerry Bergonxi Masterserie […]
As a huge fan of Joe Lovano I just have to put up a link to this amazing clip! Wow! Mel Lewis Orchestra plays Bob Mintzers great arrangement of Herbie Hancock’s Eye of the Hurricane. If I got the story right, Bob left the band for another gig, and as an apologize he wrote a […]
