Oh yes, that's how I look! You already know the Jens Filipsson and saxophone player part, but let me also add that I live in Stockholm, Sweden, where I play jazz & other beautiful music in many different constellations. My own band is a modern jazz quintet named Usual Suspects, which you can make friends with on the music page.
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I’m back in Austria after my visit to Sweden and the gig at New Sound Made festival. I really enjoyed to be home and see all friends again, and to hear a lot of them at the festival, there were quite a few really nice musical moments during the three days.
Unfortunately the weather wasn’t the [...]
Tomorrow at 11:35 I’m taking off from Vienna International Airport, and 2 hours and 25 minutes later I’m landing in Stockholm. I can’t wait, I’m really looking forward to going home this time, I haven’t been in Sweden since Christmas.
On Wednesday New Sound Made Festival starts and runs until Friday. We’re playing with Blue Corners [...]
Yesterday I played with the Uni Big Band on the Wiener Stadfest (Vienna City Feast). The day didn’t start that good, I woke up and felt I were about to get migraine. Some times I can manage to stop it with some aspirins, and luckily this was one of those days.
The gig it self took [...]
I have finally redesigned the look of the comments here on jensfilipsson.com, something I’ve been planing to do for a long while now. Here’s the result:
I have implemented Gravatar support which, if you’re registered at www.gravatar.com, adds your sweet face next to your comment. If you’re not registered, a random colorful pattern will show up [...]
Just came home from a big band rehearsal for a gig tomorrow on Wiener Stadtfest at Judenplatz here in Vienna. We rehearsed in a tiny little basement with no airflow whatsoever. It was warm, it was stuffy and it was LOUD! The band was very good though and I’m looking forward to the gig tomorrow. [...]