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Albums
Ad lucem
  SE 44 02/17/2012 (1 week)
Trees of Light (with Lena Willemark & Karin Nakagawa )
  SE 41 03/27/2015 (1 week)

Anders Jormin (born September 7, 1957 in Jönköping ) is a Swedish jazz bassist, band leader and composer.

biography

Jormin is one of the outstanding double bass players and band leaders on the Swedish post-bop scene. After his studies he left the Gothenburg University of Music with a diploma in double bass and improvisation / music pedagogy in 1979. He was best known for his membership in the Rena Rama formation of Bobo Stenson and Palle Danielsson in the 1970s. He is also a much sought-after companion for jazz greats such as Lee Konitz , Joe Henderson , Don Cherry , Mike Mainieri , Kenny Wheeler , Albert Mangelsdorff , Dino Saluzzi , Norma Winstone and Marilyn Crispell . In addition, Jormin led various solo projects with which he has recorded numerous albums since the 1980s, including for the ECM label. In 1999 he made his solo album "Xieyi", on which he was accompanied by a brass ensemble. The bass player has worked regularly with ECM artists since the 1990s; he was involved in recordings by Charles Lloyd (such as on his album Canto , 1996), by Tomasz Stańko (on Liosia , 1996) and in productions by the formation " Magnetic North ". He has also been a member of the Bobo Stenson Trio for several years.

Jormin has also been teaching bass and improvisation at the Gothenburg University of Music since the 1980s . In 1995 he was visiting professor at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki . Jormin is also a member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Music and received an honorary doctorate from the Sibelius Academy in 2003, along with Esa-Pekka Salonen and Georg Sokolow .

Anders Jormin (2016)

Discography (selection)

  • 1984 - Nordic Light (Dragon)
  • 1988 - Eight Pieces (Dragon)
  • 1991 - Alone (Dragaon)
  • 1994 - Jord (Dragon)
  • 1996 - Once (Dragon)
  • 1998 - silvae (Dragon)
  • 1999 - Xieyi (ECM)
  • 2004 - In Winds, in Light (ECM)
  • 2004 - Aviaja (Footprint Records)
  • 2011 - Ad Lucem (with Fredrik Ljungkvist , Mariam Wallentin , Erika Angell, Jon Fält ; ECM)
  • 2015 - Trees of Light (with Lena Willemark & Karin Nakagawa ; ECM)
  • 2017 - Anders & Christian Jormin, Mats Gustafsson: Opus Apus

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anders Jormin in the Swedish charts
  2. ↑ so his homepage. At Kunzler Jazzlexikon , Hägersten is near Stockholm
  3. ^ Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians Profile Jormin
personal data
SURNAME Jormin, Anders
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish jazz musician (double bass)
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Jonkoping