Anders Jormin
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Anders Bertil Michael Jormin, born September 7, 1957 in Jönköping, is a Swedish bassist and composer.
Jormin established a musical partnership with Bobo Stenson
in the mid-1980s which led to international recognition playing with Charles Lloyd, in the early 1990s. In the late 1990s he also performed regularly with Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stańko
.
Jorman has played and toured internationally with many musicians including Elvin Jones
, Don Cherry
, Lee Konitz
, Joe Henderson
, Paul Motian
, Rita Marcotulli, Norma Winstone
, Mike Manieri, Mats Gustafsson
, Albert Mangelsdorff
, Dino Saluzzi
, Marilyn Crispell
and Kenny Wheeler
.
Anders Jormin also teaches double bass and improvisation and holds a Professorial post at the Academy of Music and Drama at Gothenburg University. In 1995 he undertook a visiting professorship at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki.
Anders Jormin brother is a percussionist and pianist Christian Jormin.
(1996). In November 2010 he was awarded the Swedish Royal Music Academy Jazz Prize.
With Charles Lloyd
With Tomasz Stańko
With Bobo Stenson
Jormin established a musical partnership with Bobo Stenson
Bobo Stenson
Bo Gustav Stenson is a Swedish jazz pianist. Stenson was noted as early as 1963, when he stepped up from the local scene in Västerås to start playing frequently in Stockholm, where he accompanied a long line of visiting American players including Sonny Rollins, Stan Getz and Gary Burton...
in the mid-1980s which led to international recognition playing with Charles Lloyd, in the early 1990s. In the late 1990s he also performed regularly with Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stańko
Tomasz Stanko
Tomasz Stańko is a Polish trumpeter, composer and improviser. Often recording for ECM, Stańko is strongly associated with free jazz and the avant-garde....
.
Jorman has played and toured internationally with many musicians including Elvin Jones
Elvin Jones
Elvin Ray Jones was a jazz drummer of the post-bop era. He showed interest in drums at a young age, watching the circus bands march by his family's home in Pontiac, Michigan....
, Don Cherry
Don Cherry (jazz)
Donald Eugene Cherry was an innovative African-American jazz cornetist whose career began with a long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman. He went on to live in many parts of the world and work with a wide variety of musicians.-Biography:Cherry was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and...
, Lee Konitz
Lee Konitz
Lee Konitz is an American jazz composer and alto saxophonist born in Chicago, Illinois.Generally considered one of the driving forces of Cool Jazz, Konitz has also performed successfully in bebop and avant-garde settings...
, Joe Henderson
Joe Henderson
Joe Henderson was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. In a career spanning more than forty years Henderson played with many of the leading American players of his day and recorded for several prominent labels, including Blue Note.-Early life:From a very large family with five sisters and nine...
, Paul Motian
Paul Motian
Stephen Paul Motian was an American jazz drummer, percussionist and composer of Armenian extraction.He first came to prominence in the late 1950s in the piano trio of Bill Evans, and later led several groups...
, Rita Marcotulli, Norma Winstone
Norma Winstone
Norma Ann Winstone MBE is a British jazz singer and lyricist. In a career spanning over forty years she is best known for her wordless improvisations....
, Mike Manieri, Mats Gustafsson
Mats Gustafsson
Mats Olof Gustafsson is a Swedish saxophone player and a stalwart on the Scandinavian free jazz scene. He is known for his tonal belligerence and intensity when improvising....
, Albert Mangelsdorff
Albert Mangelsdorff
Albert Mangelsdorff was one of the most accredited and innovative trombonists of modern jazz who became famous for his distinctive technique of playing multiphonics.-Biography:...
, Dino Saluzzi
Dino Saluzzi
Timoteo "Dino" Saluzzi is an Argentine musician.The son of popular carpero composer and instrumentalist Cayetano Saluzzi, Dino played the bandoneón since his childhood...
, Marilyn Crispell
Marilyn Crispell
Marilyn Crispell is an American jazz pianist and composer.-Biography:Crispell studied classical piano and composition at the New England Conservatory of Music. She has been a resident of Woodstock, NY since 1977 when she came to study and teach at Karl Berger's Creative Music Studio...
and Kenny Wheeler
Kenny Wheeler
Kenneth Vincent John Wheeler, OC is a Canadian composer and trumpet and flugelhorn player, based in the U.K. since the 1950s....
.
Anders Jormin also teaches double bass and improvisation and holds a Professorial post at the Academy of Music and Drama at Gothenburg University. In 1995 he undertook a visiting professorship at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki.
Background
Anders Jormin grew up in a musical family with a father who was a professional jazz musician and learned to perform jazz standards at an early age, he studied classical music on piano and bass at the University of Gothenburg and has a long-standing appreciation of folk music and combines classical music with folk and jazz in his compositional approach.Anders Jormin brother is a percussionist and pianist Christian Jormin.
Awards and Recognition
Jormin has received several awards including the Jan Johansson Scholarship (1992), Jazz Kannan (1994) and a Swedish Grammy for best Jazz album with the Bobo Stenson Trio, ReflectionsReflections (Bobo Stenson album)
Reflections is an album by Swedish pianist Bobo Stenson recorded in 1993 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 3 stars stating "Stenson shows more energy than one might expect to hear on an ECM date, although he also has several introspective...
(1996). In November 2010 he was awarded the Swedish Royal Music Academy Jazz Prize.
As leader
- Nordic Lights (Dragon, 1984)
- Eight Pieces (Dragon)
- Alone (Dragon, 1991)
- Jord (Dragon, 1995)
- Once (Dragon)
- Silvae (Dragon, 1998)
- Xeiyi (ECM)
- In Winds, In LightIn Winds, In LightIn Winds, In Light is an album by Swedish basist and composer Anders Jormin recorded in 2003 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars stating "This is a startling record, literally unlike anything ever heard before. These players make...
(ECM)
As sideman
With Don CherryDon Cherry (jazz)
Donald Eugene Cherry was an innovative African-American jazz cornetist whose career began with a long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman. He went on to live in many parts of the world and work with a wide variety of musicians.-Biography:Cherry was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and...
- Dona NostraDona NostraDona Nostra is an album by jazz trumpeter Don Cherry with Bobo Stenson and Lennart Åberg recorded in 1993 and released on the ECM label. The album was Cherry's last as a leader prior to his death in 1995.-Reception:...
(ECM, 1994)
With Charles Lloyd
- Notes from Big SurNotes from Big Sur-Track listing:# "Requiem" - 8:01# "Sister" - 8:51# "Pilgrimage to the Mountain Part 1: Persevere" - 7:22# "Sam Song" - 7:54# "Takur" - 4:27# "Monk in Paris" - 9:38# "When Miss Jessye Sings" - 9:55# "Pilgrimage to the Mountain Part 2: Surrender" - 4:31...
(ECM, 1992) - The CallThe Call (Charles Lloyd album)-Track listing:# "Nocturne" - 5:14# "Song" - 12:45# "Dwija" - 6:46# "Glimpse" - 8:33# "Imke" - 3:55# "Amarma" - 7:18# "Figure in Blue, Memories of Duke" - 9:25# "The Blessing" - 10:54# "Brother on the Rooftop" - 11:57*Recorded in Oslo, Norway in July 1993...
(ECM, 1993) - All My RelationsAll My Relations (album)-Track listing:# "Piercing the Veil" - 8:27# "Little Peace" - 6:35# "Thelonious Theonlyus" - 7:48# "Cape to Cairo Suite " - 15:26# "Evanstide, Where Lotus Bloom" - 10:56# "All My Relations" - 10:54# "Hymne to the Mother" - 8:38...
(ECM, 1994) - Canto (ECM, 1996)
With Tomasz Stańko
Tomasz Stanko
Tomasz Stańko is a Polish trumpeter, composer and improviser. Often recording for ECM, Stańko is strongly associated with free jazz and the avant-garde....
- Matka JoannaMatka JoannaMatka Joanna is an album by Polish jazz trumpeter and composer Tomasz Stańko recorded in 1994 and released on the ECM label. The music was inspired by Jerzy Kawalerowicz's 1961 movie Matka Joanna od Aniołów.-Reception:...
(ECM, 1994) - LeosiaLeosia (album)Leosia is an album by Polish jazz trumpeter and composer Tomasz Stańko recorded in 1996 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Michael G. Nastos awarded the album 3½ stars stating "As ECM recordings go, Leosia is one of the label's, and certainly trumpeter Tomasz Stanko's,...
(ECM, 1996) - From the Green HillFrom the Green HillFrom the Green Hill is an album by Polish jazz trumpeter and composer Tomasz Stańko recorded in 1998 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:...
(ECM, 1998)
With Bobo Stenson
Bobo Stenson
Bo Gustav Stenson is a Swedish jazz pianist. Stenson was noted as early as 1963, when he stepped up from the local scene in Västerås to start playing frequently in Stockholm, where he accompanied a long line of visiting American players including Sonny Rollins, Stan Getz and Gary Burton...
- Very Early (Dragon)
- ReflectionsReflections (Bobo Stenson album)Reflections is an album by Swedish pianist Bobo Stenson recorded in 1993 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 3 stars stating "Stenson shows more energy than one might expect to hear on an ECM date, although he also has several introspective...
(ECM, 1993) - War OrphansWar OrphansWar Orphans is an album by Swedish pianist Bobo Stenson recorded in 1997 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars stating "While the last Bobo Stenson Trio offering found the band cohesively searching for a new harmonic language together...
(ECM, 1997) - SerenitySerenity (Bobo Stenson album)Serenity is an album by Swedish pianist Bobo Stenson recorded in 1999 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:The Penguin Guide to Jazz selected this album as part of its suggested Core Collection....
(ECM, 1999) - GoodbyeGoodbye (Bobo Stenson album)Goodbye is an album by Swedish pianist Bobo Stenson recorded in 2004 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 3½ stars stating "Goodbye is one of, if not the most expansive and diverse collections pianist Bobo Stenson has ever released.....
(ECM, 2004) - CantandoCantando (Bobo Stenson album)Cantando is an album by Swedish pianist Bobo Stenson recorded in 2007 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars stating "This is a stellar effort that announces -- hopefully -- an extended run for this trio".-Track listing:# "Olivia" -...
(ECM, 2007)