So, what have I been up to this summer? Well, biggest event was no doubt playing the Stockholm Jazz Fest with Magdalena Konefal.
Magdalena Konefal
Magdalena writes some beautiful music and plays together with a very nice band, The Rebirth Station. Our horn section, Neighbourhood Horns, joined for this gig, and the result came out very well I must say. I hope we get to do more gigs together with Magdalena in the future!
It was my first time at Stockholm Jazz Fest, and hangin’ there really was a blast. The festival area is on beautiful Skeppsholmen in Stockholm, right next to the water. The weather was great the whole week, I saw some wonderful acts (Sonny Rollins, Roy Hargrove, McCoy Tyner, Bill Frisell, Mike Stern, Meshell Ndegeocello, Gilberto Gil, Erykah Badu, Estelle, just to mention a few…), had a daily intake of good food and beer backstage, lot’s of good friends that also visited the festival and so on… Everything was perfect to be honest!
From what I understand they didn’t make a profit this year, but the arrangers still hope for another one next year. I totally fell in love with the festival and really hope there will be more of them. I think a jazz festival is something important for a big city like Stockholm, it’s a unique and very nice event that stands in good contrast to many other things happening in town.
YouTube
I found these two videos on YouTube, the first one is from when we played Nyhetsmorgon (the morning news) in Swedish TV4 before the festival, and the other one is from the actual gig at the festival. Enjoy!