Tag: Goran Kajfeš

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The 58th iteration of the Umeå Jazz Festival brought some familiar faces to the north of Sweden, offering its usual blend of marquee names and local favourites alongside other enticing if lesser-known acts. The festival also continues to expand its approach to the rest of the city, with a week-long calendar of events heralded by Jazzcafé Swingfabriken astride Umeå University's...

In the chill of last November I was in the audience for the debut outing of Cosmic Ear, a new quintet starring some of the leading lights of the Swedish jazz scene in the form of Mats Gustafsson, Goran Kajfeš, Christer Bothén, Juan Romero and Kansan Zetterberg. Landing right on my doorstep just a few weeks after the 56th iteration...

It's sometimes said that we know less about the ocean than we do about outer space, a palpable nonsense which points to how much of the ocean we have left to explore and pricks at a notion that William Burroughs and plenty other writers or esotericists have plied, which is that to go out and to gain a fuller...