Last fall, as part of a dynamic performance by Seval, the Swedish trumpeter Emil Strandberg shared his warm, melodic improvisational style with the audience of last year’s European Jazz Meets Chicago minifest, part of the annual Umbrella Music Festival that takes place at the Chicago Cultural Center. In that group, led by Chicago cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm, musicians create spontaneous arrangements for loose pop-like songs written by the leader. The group demonstrated an incredibly fluid sensibility, reacting adeptly to one another without ever losing a compositional thread. With some of his solo work outside of the group Strandberg keeps showing off why he’s a natural for the modus operandi at work in Seval.
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