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Framat!

By Scheen Jazzorkester

Label: Grong
Released: 2025
Track listing: M?rk; B?garna och r?relserna; Fram?t!; No Time To Lose; Glossolalia; Leif H?kon; Enhyllning Kerstin; Keijsers dans.

Scheen Jazzorkester & Fredrik Ljungkvist: Framat!

by Mark Corroto
June 8, 2025

Scandinavian large ensembles have much to teach their more conservative American counterparts about reinventing the jazz orchestra for the 21st century. Fram?t! by Scheen Jazzorkester is a powerful affirmation of this idea. This Norwegian ensemble has consistently pushed the boundaries of large ensemble jazz, and Fram?ti--their tenth release since forming in 2010--is another compelling addition to ...

The Death Of Kalypso

By Magnus Broo

Label: Thanatosis Produktion
Released: 2024
Track listing: Messieurs-dames (Stuck In The Arching Caverns Of Hermes�� Court); Une Certaine Paix; A Campaign Of Tragedy (string quartet); Fetus Of Dawn (Kalypso Talks To Her Son Nausithous And Sings To The Gods); A Campaign Of Tragedy (aria); Cutting The Woods; The Caves Of Ogygia l; The Caves Of Ogygia ll; Kalypso In Karlsbad, Haunted By Dreams; A Campaign Of Tragedy; Outro And Overture; The Death Of Kalypso.

Angles + Elle-Kari With Strings: The Death Of Kalypso

by Chris May
May 18, 2024

As a genre, jazz-opera is thinly populated. The recorded archive is marked more by quality than quantity, with albums by Mike Westbrook and Kate Westbrook, Carla Bley and Charlie Haden to the fore. But the best ever jazz-opera, in this parish anyway, predates anything by these musicians. Composer Todd Matshikiza and lyricist Pat Williams' King Kong ...

In This Forever Unfolding Moment

By Vilhelm Bromander

Label: Thanatosis Produktion
Released: 2023
Track listing: In This Forever Unfolding Moment; L?t V?ra T?rar Bli V?ra Vapen; Blommor Och Br?d.

Johan Lindstrom & Norrbotten Big Band

By Johan Lindstrom

Label: Moserobie
Released: 2023
Track listing: Parade; Interlude; Blues for Somliga; End of the Dark Hours; Ostanvik; Ritmo Bolsillo; Pasacaglia; Arctic Mambo; Nobi.

Petrichor

By Ahanes

Label: Clean Feed Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: India; Sand; Piper; Canon.

A Muted Reality

By Martin Kuchen

Label: Clean
Released: 2022
Track listing: Muted Reality; The Hidden Balcony; Fkk Down, Fkk Off.

K?lltorp Sessions Volume Two

By Mattias St?hl

Label: Moserobie
Released: 2022
Track listing: Vetstugo; Pondus Och Swing; Guldkort; Nu B?rjar Det; I-Land Du V?lsignade; Vi G?r Till skolan (Alt Take); Ayler-Ekberg; POK.