Anders Jormin

Anders Jormin

born on 7/9/1957 in Jönköping, Sweden

Anders Jormin

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Anders Bertil Michael Jormin, born 7 September 1957 in Jönköping, is a Swedish bassist and composer.[1]

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 since 2002. In 1995 he undertook a visiting professorship at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. The same appointed him Doctor honores causa (honorary doctorate) in 2003.[2]

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.[3] 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, Reflections (1996). In November 2010 he was awarded the Swedish Royal Music Academy Jazz Prize.

Discography

As leader

  • Nordic Lights (Dragon, 1984)
  • Eight Pieces (Dragon)
  • Alone (Dragon, 1991)
  • Jord (Dragon, 1995)
  • Once (Dragon)
  • Silvae (Dragon, 1998)
  • Xieyi (ECM, 2001)
  • In Winds, In Light (ECM, 2003)
  • Aviaja (Footprint, 2005)
  • Songs in Meantone (Footprint, 2011) – with Karin Nelson and Jonas Simonson
  • Ad Lucem (ECM, 2012)
  • Provenance (Footprint, 2013)
  • Between Always and Never (Swedish Society Discofil, 2014)
  • Trees of Light (ECM, 2015) – with Lena Willemark and Karin Nakagawa

As sideman

With Don Cherry

  • Dona Nostra (ECM, 1994)

With Mark Feldman

  • What Exit (ECM, 2006)

With Charles Lloyd

  • Notes from Big Sur (ECM, 1992)
  • The Call (ECM, 1993)
  • All My Relations (ECM, 1994)
  • Canto (ECM, 1996)

With Tomasz Stańko

  • Matka Joanna (ECM, 1994)
  • Leosia (ECM, 1996)
  • From the Green Hill (ECM, 1998)

With Bobo Stenson

  • Very Early (Dragon)
  • Reflections (ECM, 1993)
  • War Orphans (ECM, 1997)
  • Serenity (ECM, 1999)
  • Goodbye (ECM, 2004)
  • Cantando (ECM, 2007)
  • Indicum (ECM, 2011)
  • Contra la Indecisión (ECM, 2018)

As leader and sideman

With brother Christian Jormin

  • Provenance (Footprint Records/Bo Ejeby Förlag/Naxos, 2013)

External links

  • Anders Jormin Homepage accessed November 15, 2011
  • Anders Jormin - "Sound is an image starting inside", Jazzdimensions Interview 2012

References

  1. ^ Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians: Anders Jormin Archived February 13, 2015, at the Wayback Machine. access November 14, 2011
  2. ^ "Profile Jormin, Anders". Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians jazz.com. Archived from the original on 13 February 2015. Retrieved 29 January 2015. 
  3. ^ Kelman, J. Anders Jormin: Touching the Heart and Spirit, All About Jazz, October 4, 2004
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