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 “ditt” sound och du kan spela mer “på röret” och forma ditt sound.
Kolla in deras hemsida: Drake Mouthpieces
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 Shorter at Fasching in Stockholm, and so on!
To make it happen, I have to tell someone about it, but still in my head I plan for some projects abroad with musicians I met earlier… And me and Anna Greta will do some new stuff with our quartet. Please listen to our band! Just click at “projects” and you can hear us! It will all happen!
And we’ve set up a tour with Dan Johanssons and my band! We go tomorrow for the first concert in Vänersborg, and continue to Kalmar. Please click at “live” and you can see where you can hear us. It will be a great pleasure to let the music grow by playing togheter on this tour! As I wrote before, the musicians in this band is my idols… They have inspired, and continue to inspire me with their great playing! I’m Super Happy!
Here’s some pictures form our concert at Jazz club Fasching. And once again, it is Kenth Wångklev who is photographer.
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 first concert on Jazz club Fasching in Stockholm, and I found myself on a concert playing with some of my idols! It was great fun to play together with Dan, Torbjörn Gulz, Kristian Leth and legendary bass player Palle Danielsson!
Right now we are working to get a tour together this autumn, and I know we will get it together! It will be a pleasure to do this tour with these amazing musicians!
Bandpresentation (Svenska)
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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 to the list of my own compositions, and I chose Billy’s and Duke Ellington’s Isfahan.
In 2015, we wanted to celebrate the centennial of Strayhorn with a couple of concerts. Here’s two clips from Glenn Miller Café in Stockholm when we invited Hans Backenroth and legendary Swedish trumpet player Jan Allan!
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 play concerts in concert halls together with the GMO, we 
played for for a big audience at outdoor scene Sollidenscenen at Skansen in Stockholm with NPO, a short tour with Peter Asplund is coming up, and we did a great project with Blue House Jazz Orchestra and Mith Frohman one month ago! Wow!
After 25 years with Tito Puente Mitch Frohman is the sax- and flute-sound of that genre! Amazing to hear him play and lead the band, and a great way to get in to that music!
On top of this, I will also do some small band stuff. We played at reopening of Jazz club Glenn Miller Café in Stockholm last week with a band great drummer Bengt Stark have put together. The club has been closed for three month, but they reopened 8th of October. It was just the same great feeling! A small place, huge crowd and everyone was happy! Perfect for Jazz!
We also planning a recording with my and Anna Gretas Quartet. And right now I book a tour together with Swedish trumpet player Dan Johansson.. We put a quintet together! I let you know more about the tour soon! 
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 us too! Hans is one of those musicians I heard live and listened carefully to when I started to play jazz. And last year we have done a couple of projects together! Amazing!
Pianist Ben Paterson is visiting from New York. We met in NY on a jam session six years ago, and have kept in touch and met both in Stockholm and NY during this years. Drummer Kristian Leth comes from Copenhagen to play with Scott Hamilton, and happily we got him on this project too! Off course I’ve heard Kristian play, but we’ve never play. It will be a great pleasure! Looking forward to three gigs in Sthlm!
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 8* and one NY Jazz 8. And off course I had to buy one of them..
Look and listen to the clip here: Drake Comparison
Please also go in to my “gear“-page and see some more clips with Aaron Drake mouthpieces and EGR ligatures!
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 coulpe of arrangements. Or a couple of great arrangements..!
I had the pleasure to play with the great Blue House Jazz Orchestra in Stockholm in a project where we played Herbie’s music. (Not together with Herbie though..) I played Baritone and shared this solospot with Inge Peterson on tenor. It was recorded! I’ll see if I can get it!
Jag har fått några fina bilder från Kenth Wångklev, vår mesta och bästa jazzfotograf!
