Further Reading
9th February 2024
This week we have more Brazilian guitar vibrations, celebratory big band jazz from Doncaster as well as spunky Australian grooves. Some brilliant reworkings of classic jazz repertoire arrive from Sweden, and a repatriated vocalist shines as she takes to the stage once again.
"After the two critically acclaimed and award-winning albums ‘Longing’ and ‘What’s It All About?’, the jazz quartet Ellas Kapell are releasing their third album ‘For All We Know’. With innovative arrangements, which could almost be considered original compositions, the group continues to interpret traditional music from the world of jazz.
This time they are focusing on creating a musical atmosphere that allows you to both rest in the familiar as well as discover the unknown. The theme for the album is sorrow, yet with glimpses of something more. It is through the cracks that the light flows in and with their music, Ellas Kapell wants to echo those moments when the darkness shifts and despair turns to hope. While many have interpreted the classic jazz compositions of our time, few have done it in such innovative and creative ways as Ellas Kapell, if critics and audiences are to be believed.
The four members met in 2016 and have since released three (soon) albums, won the Golden Album Reader’s Choice Award (JAZZ/Orkesterjournalen), been named the Vocal Jazz of the Year by Lira Music Magazine, as well as have been streamed over 4 million times. During the last few years, the band has toured frequently, and worked together with renowned Swedish jazz musicians such as Magnus Lindgren and Karin Hammar. In 2017, Ellas Kapell participated in the SVT documentary “Vi äger drömmarna"" (‘We own the dreams’)."
