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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...

The saxophonist Mats Gustafsson and trumpeter Goran Kajfeš already seem to work at a maddening pace, major figures of the European avant-garde whose hands are all over the Swedish jazz scene, from Gustafsson's indefatigable Fire! trio and his foundational work with GUSH which now stretches back more than three decades to the freeform theatrics of his quintet The End,...

Umeå, a small city on the northeast coast of Sweden which lies around 600 kilometres from Stockholm and wears a subarctic climate, with long and dark winters but warm summers imbued with the glow of a midnight sun, culturally punches several divisions above its weight class. Known for its birch trees and clean air, this fact owes partly to the...