Tag: Linda Fredriksson

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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...

Singing through a ring modulator offset by the distortions and amplifications of the surrounding band, which drew upon an unconventional background in aspects of Dixieland jazz, Indian classical ragas, John Cage, and Karlheinz Stockhausen while earning equal renown for the left-wing political content of their music, as the frontwoman of The United States of America the vocalist Dorothy Moskowitz...