Magnus Broo (born 27 June 1965) is a Swedish jazz musician (trumpet) known from own recordings and collaboration with Norwegian jazz musicians like in the band
Atomic.
Career
Broo was born in Husqvarna,
Västervik
Västervik is a city status in Sweden, city and the seat of Västervik Municipality, Kalmar County, Sweden, with 36,747 inhabitants in 2021. Västervik is one of three coastal towns with a notable population size in the province of Småland.
Cl ...
,
Småland
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Småland borders Blekinge, Scania, Halland, Västergötland, Östergötland and the island Öland in the Baltic Sea. The name ''Småland'' literally means "small la ...
, the son of a trumpeter, and participated in the
Visby
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big band before he attended musical training at
North Texas State University
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(1984–1990). Back in Sweden, he was incorporated into
Fredrik Norén Band (1991–1999), and also collaborated in the orchestra of
Lennart Åberg.
[
Broo's expression is a continuation of ]free jazz
Free jazz, or free form in the early to mid-1970s, is a style of avant-garde jazz or an experimental approach to jazz improvisation that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s, when musicians attempted to change or break down jazz conventi ...
and Ornette Coleman
Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman (March 9, 1930 – June 11, 2015) was an American jazz saxophonist, trumpeter, violinist, and composer. He is best known as a principal founder of the free jazz genre, a term derived from his 1960 album '' Free Ja ...
's style from the 1960'th, and he is central in the Norwegian/Swedish band Atomic (1999–).[ He also leads his own Magnus Broo Quartet'' with Torbjörn Gulz on piano, Mattias Welin on bass and Jonas Holgersson on drums. They released the albums ''Sudden Joy'' (1999), ''Levitaton'' (2001), ''Sugar Promise''(2003) and ''Pain Body'' (2008). Moreover, he also collaborates in Fredrik Nordström Quintet.][
]
Discography
Solo albums
;The Magnus Broo Quartet
*1999: ''Sudden Joy'' (Dragon Records), live recording
*2002: ''Levitation'' (Dragon Records)
*2003: ''Sugarpromise'' (Moserobie Music)
*2008: ''Painbody'' (Moserobie Music)
;Magnus Broo Trio
* 2018: ''Rules'' (Moserobie Music)
;
;Other projects
*2008: ''Game'' (PNL), with Paal Nilssen-Love
*2010: ''Swedish Wood'' (Moserobie)
Collaborations
;Within Atomic
*2001: ''Feet Music'' (Jazzland Recordings
Jazzland Recordings is a Norwegian jazz and improvised music label based in Oslo, Norway, often associated with nu jazz.
It was founded in 1996 by pianist Bugge Wesseltoft to release his "New Conception of Jazz" and operate as a standalone label ...
)
*2003: ''Boom Boom'' (Jazzland Recordings)
*2004: ''Nuclear Assembly Hall'' (Okka Disk), with "School Days"
*2005: ''The Bikini Tapes'' (Jazzland Recordings), live recording
*2006: ''Happy New Ears'' (Jazzland Recordings)
*2008: ''Retrograde'' (Jazzland Recordings)
*2008: ''Distil'' (Okka Disk), with "School Days"
*2010: ''Theater Tilters'' (Jazzland Recordings)
*2011: ''Here Comes Everybody'' (Jazzland Recordings)
*2013: ''There's A Hole in the Mountain'' (Jazzland Recordings)
*2015: Lucidity (Jazzland Recordings)
*2017: Six Easy Pieces (Odin Records)
*2018: Pet Variations (Odin Records)
;With Fredrik Nordström Quintet
*2004: ''Moment'' (Moserobie Music)
*2005: ''No Sooner Said Than Done'' (Moserobie Music)
*2008: ''Live in Coimbra'' (Clean Feed)
;With Adam Lane, Ken Vandermark
Ken Vandermark (born September 22, 1964) is an American composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist.
A fixture on the Chicago-area music scene since the 1990s, Vandermark has earned wide critical praise for his playing and his multilayered composit ...
and Paal Nilssen-Love
*2007: ''4 Corners'' (Clean Feed)
;Within "Boots Brown"
*2007: ''Boots Brown'' (Slottet Records)
*2014: ''Dashes To Dashes'' (Häpna Records)
;Within "Angles"
*2008: ''Every Woman Is A Tree'' (Clean Feed)
*2010: ''Epileptical West : Live in Coimbra'' (Clean Feed)
;With Marilyn Crispell
*2009: '' Collaborations'' (Leo Records)
;Within "The Godforgottens"
*2009: ''Never Forgotten, Always Remembered'' (Clean Feed)
;Within "IPA"
*2009: ''Lorena'' (Bolage Records)
*2011: ''It's A Delicate Thing'' (Bolage Records)
;Within "The Resonance Ensemble"
*2011: ''Kafka in Flight'' (Not Two Records)
*2012: ''What Country Is This?'' (Not Two Records)
*2013: ''Head Above Water, Feet Out of the Fire'' (Not Two Records)
;Within "Platform"
*2012: ''Takes Off'' (Clean Feed)
;Within "Angles 9"
*2013: ''In Our Midst'' (Clean Feed)
*2014: ''Injury'' (Clean Feed)
References
External links
Magnus Broo
on Myspace
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* in Orkesterjournalen
fly.to/broo
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1965 births
Living people
Swedish jazz composers
Swedish male jazz composers
Swedish jazz trumpeters
Swedish male trumpeters
21st-century Swedish trumpeters
21st-century Swedish male musicians
Atomic (band) members
Clean Feed Records artists
People from Huskvarna