Per Texas Johansson

Big Band Stories

By Fredrik Nordstrom

Label: Bluenord Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: East Broadway Noodles; ENYAW; Another Mountain; Peaches; Epicenter; Everblue; Blubby; The Ferret; See You At Babas.

Louis Sclavis, David Le��n, Roby Glod & Joy Guidry

by Maurice Hogue
March 28, 2024

Reed players have taken over the house this week. The eminent clarinetist Louis Sclavis stars in an excellent quartet using music, text and spoken word to create a moody sonic landscape out of short stories, poems and aphorisms by French and African authors. Other European saxophonists heard are Luxembourg's Roby Glod in a familiar setting with ...

Per "Texas" Johansson: Orkester Omnitonal / Den s???msta l???sningen av alla

by Vincenzo Roggero
February 21, 2024

Curiosa la vicenda artistica e umana di Per Texas Johansson. Inizia da piccolo a suonare il clarinetto per poi avvicinarsi ad una vasta gamma di altri strumenti a fiato. Durante gli anni '90 pubblica una serie di apprezzati album diventando musicista di spicco della scena svedese ma durante un viaggio in Tanzania incontra un infermiere norvegese ...

Frank Carlberg, Karl Evangelista & Benoit Delbecq

by Maurice Hogue
February 13, 2024

Thelonious Monk has always been a magnet for jazz pianists. Frank Carlberg's fascination with the mysterious Monk has led to a second recording with his large ensemble. It's called Elegy For Thelonious. San Francisco guitarist Karl Evangelista is one who tends to fly under the radar, but his recent What Else Is There?, recorded in Chicago, ...

Per Texas Johansson, Anke Helfrich & Machine Mass Sextet

by Maurice Hogue
January 30, 2024

Last show of another year of great music, and I usually try to do something special or different, but I was kind of tapped out for ideas until I happened to come across We'll Rise, a new recording by German pianist and singer, Anke Helfrich. I loved the message she was trying to convey through her ...

Ludovico Granvassu's Garden of Jazzy Delights 2023

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 3, 2024

If it is true that, like The Police once put it, “when the world is going down you make the best of what's still around," then throughout 2023 jazz fans were better off than most other social groups. In a year in which everyday news brought ever more inconceivable disappointments, jazz musicians, labels, festivals and venues ...

Rite of Passage

By Konrad Agnas

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Intro; M?nen och Vargen; Don Rhythmicon; Untitled 1972; Siwa; Half Year Song; Bismillah; Arthur and Jeremiah; Untitled 1971; Rite of Passage.

Ariba

By Daniel Bingert

Label: Moserobie
Released: 2023
Track listing: Benny Monk; Ulla My Dear; Ariba; Mobley Phone; I Shot a Elephant in my Pyamas; Latin Good Times Spela Roll; Tom of Norway; Kennet Lemur; SoulnNedgangen; Alvsala Lullaby.

Family

By Gard Nilssen

Label: We Jazz Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: The Space Dance Experiment; Spending Time With Ludde; Letter to Alfred; Boogie Stop T?ffel; The Healing Force Of the Trojan Horse; Supersonic; Dolphin Disco; SP68.