Magnus Broo

If you already sensed that the free bop style played by Ken Vandermark has roots in rhythm 'n' blues, here is the recording that confirms your impression.

Here is a brand new album by norwegian star band The Core.This time expanded with swedes Magnus Broo and Jonas Kullhammar and the norwegian legend Vidar Johansen who is also the composer for this suite.This is a uniqe fresh album by some of the leading jazz musicians of scandinavia.

The association of trumpeter Magnus Broo with the Sten Sandell Trio was very much intended and searched for, giving continuity to another partnership in quartet: the one with John Butcher heard in the album “Strokes”. But something wasn't planned: the use of a Hammond B-3 organ.

Martin Küchen is naive and desperate, and maybe only because of that one might feel that each of his albums has a message. If this message may seem political, its sense is profoundly about human undertakings, and "Epileptical West", recorded live in Coimbra, Portugal, during the Jazz ao Centro festival, is no exception.

"This brand new 2CD documents an expanded Vandermark 5 at Chicago's Green Mill club in June of 2009. The quintet is assisted by Scandinavian stalwarts Magnus Broo (trumpet) and Håvard Wiik (piano), both members of Atomic who previously worked with several members of the Chicago outfit. The album once again proves that the Vandermark catalogue for this band is an awe-inspiring work-in-progress.