Lasse Törnqvist All Stars

The autumn season of Uppsala Jazz Club ended on Dec 5th when Lasse Törnqvist All Stars visited Pub 19 in Uppsala. They played a lot of good mainstream jazz.



The group consists of Lasse Törnqvist (cornet), Erik Persson (stand-in for Klas Lindquist), (alt.sax); Dicken Hedrenius (trombone), Erik Söderlind (guitar), Patrik Boman (bass), Jesper Kviberg (drums).



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Missisippi Seven at Uppsala Jazz Club

Last Sunday the trad jazz band Missisippi Seven had a concert at Pub 19 in Uppsala. The concert was arranged by Uppsala Jazz Club.



From a listeners point of view: This is music that really makes you happy. Good musicians. Nuff said.

Well, almost. What also makes you smile is that talk inbetween the songs by drummer Bertil Ekman. He seems to have a infinite supply of entertaining useless facts.



From a dancers point of view: Missisippi Seven plays trad jazz in a moderate tempo that you could easily do lindy to. The tempo is a little slow for balboa but they could probably throw in a couple of faster tunes if you asked them.

They played two of my favorite songs: "Diga Diga Doo" (also the name of the their new album where my photos is on the album cover) and "Blues My Sweetie Naugthy Gives To Me".

Here's my own useless but entertaining fact: mostly you hear "Blues My Sweetie Naugthy Gives To Me" played instrumently by for instance Sidney Bechet but there is actually lyrics to the song which list all the kinds of blues that you can get.

One of the kinds of blues is "The blues you get from women, when you see them going swimming, and you doesn't have a bathing suit yourself".



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Trinity at Uppsala Jazz Club: Photos

The jazz group Trinity played yesterday at Pub Nitton in Uppsala at a concert arranged by Uppsala Jazz Club.

The band consists of Ali Djeridi (drums), Andreas Hellkvist (Hammond) and Amanda Sedgwick (saxophone) who this time replaced Karl Olandersson (trumpet).



They played groovy jazz from the 1960's. It becomes especially groovy when Andreas Hellkvist attackes the key of his Hammond organ.



My favorite song of the concert was The Preacher by Horace Silver. Very groovy indeed.


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Jazz photography: Stockholm Classic Jazz Band

Yesterday The Stockholm Classic Jazz Band played at a concert at Pub 19 in Uppsala.

Pub 19 is a classic stomping ground for jazz listners, a couple of years ago "Katalin and all that jazz" was located here before they moved to the new location right by the central station. The pub really has an intimate feeling. All around the walls there are photos of many musicians that has played there over the years.



Stockholm Classic Jazz Band played good trad jazz and had a really good lineup of musicians. One of them is Bent Persson, the trumpet player. I have one of his cds: Swingin' Straight, when I spoke to him he said that he usually plays other kinds of jazz than what's on that cd. So I guess Bent Persson mostly plays trad jazz.



Jens Lindgren on trumpet and song is another member of the Stockholm Classic Jazz Band. What you might not know is that he and Lennart Westerlund and the dance group The Rhythm Hot Shots started Jesses Jazz Club that was located at Katariahissen (Pryssgränd) where there was dancing every week to live bands. In the early days Jens Lindgren was the MC of the night. One of these days I might go through my old photo albums, I might have some photos from Jesses Jazz Club (or better yet, you send me one!).

When the rent became to high they had to move to another location. The dance night has now transformed into Zackes Jazz Corner which is hosted each Wednesday at the Chicago Dance Studio owned by The Harlem Hot Shots. Chicago Dance Studio is located at Hornsgatan 75 in Stockholm.

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Stockholm Classic Jazz Band: Concert Sun 30 nov at Pub 19

Join me tomorrow, Sunday Nov 30th, at a concert with Stockholm Classic Jazz Band at Pub 19 in Uppsala at 15.00.

Stockholm Classic Jazz Band play trad jazz and has some of the very best musicians in that genre: Bent Persson (trumpet), Jens Lindgren (trombon, song), Göran Eriksson (clarinet, alto saxophone), Holger Gross (banjo, guitar, bandleader), Göran Lind (bass) and Christer Ekhé (drums).

The concert is arranged by Uppsala Jazz Club.

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Emma Larsson: Jazz concert photos

On Sunday, The Emma Larsson Quartet played at Pub 19 at a concert arranged by Uppsala Jazz Club.

The quartet consists of Emma Larsson (vocals), Seppo Kantonen (piano), Tomi Salesvou (drums) and Ville Huolman (bass).

Everybody in the band are very talented, they are very good at what they do. If you like this style of jazz, you should see them or buy their album. But it's not really my preferred style of jazz, so (as I've mentioned before) it spoke more to my brain than my heart.



The next concert arranged by Uppsala Jazz Club will be at November 16th 15.00 with Lill-Bength.

I've heard from the jazz promotor Björn Sjödin that there will be a lot more jazz on Sundays at Pub 19 later on in the autumn, more about that in another blog post.




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Emma Larsson at Pub 19 today

Today the jazz singer Emma Larsson and her quartet will play at a concert at Pub 19 in Uppsala at 15.00. The concert is arranged by Uppsala Jazz Club and costs 120 kr.

Listen to Emma Larsson at MySpace.

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Sweet Emma & The Mood Swingers: Music video shoot

Last Sunday Sweet Emma & The Mood Swingers shot a music video at Grand. Along with the band there were a lot of dancers from Swingkatten dressed up in the style of the 1940's and 1950's.

Sweet Emma & The Mood Swingers is a rhythm & blues band from Uppsala that also plays jump blues. They are collecting material for their second album that hopefully will be out sometime next year.

Sweet Emma & The Mood Swingers will play tonight at Pub 19 in Uppsala at 21 o'clock. If you have the opportunity, you should see them.

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Have you seen or heard Sweet Emma & The Mood Swingers before? What do you think of them? Tell me.

Jazz jam session at Pub 19, Uppsala

Last night was a jazz jam night at Pub 19, where everybody could bring their instrument and jam together.

This was a nice evening and the best was when jazz singer Sani Gamedze from South Africa took the stage. Just wonderful.

She will sing at Katalin Thursday Feb 8th with Democracy of jazz.

The photo was taken by me and may not be used elsewhere without my permisson. You also see Erik Ojala on bass. I don't know the drummers name, if you know, please tell me.