Artist description SPIRITS REJOICE is a free jazz quartet. Free enough to pick up a beat or a melody when it comes along or to let it pass by and move into some other, looser mode of expression – and jazz enough to acknowledge its roots in the North American power-freeform of the sixties – such as Albert Ayler and John Coltrane - and also the bluesy, driving swing of Charles Mingus. This said, though, it must be noted that Spirits Rejoice have their very own sound and musical language. The limits are set only by Duke Ellington’s classic definition of good music: ”If it sounds good, it is good”. Anything and everything can happen, and the recurrent motifs in the music are hooks, fragments, themes for improvisation rather than compositions as such. Most melodies are children of the moment which are brought up in a loving environment and then allowed to grow into something else. The core of this music is energy and improvisation, and the result is a jubilant celebration, full of joy, sorrow, anger and humour, as serious as your life

Music Style Free Jazz

Musical Influences Albert Ayler, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Roswell Rudd, Archie Shepp

Similar Artists Albert Ayler, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Roswell Rudd, Archie Shepp

Artist History Started in 1999. Andersson, Risheden and Strängberg are associates in arranging improvised/experimental music events under the name NOW/BRÖTZ, and took help from drummer Söderling. Andersson and Risheden formerly played together in free jazz quartet Kosmofon.

Group Members Ingemar Andersson: double bassJan Risheden: tenor saxophoneHåkan Strängberg: trombone, preachingAnders Söderling: drums

Instruments Tenor saxophone, trombone, double bass, drums

Albums Rejoice! (BRAX 003)

Press Reviews MAGAZINE GROOVE #1 2001:"Spirits Rejoice borrow their name from Albert Ayler, which gives a hint about what these four Swedes sound like. Jazz that is free, but in effective motion. The first half hour and the first three tunes are high voltage music that swings enormously. I love when the wind players 'get stuck' on a melodic fragment, just to release a catapult load of tones in perfect time that grab the listener on their way." - Peter Sjöblom

Location Goteborg, Västergötland - Sweden

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