Bobo Stenson

Did you know that, in order to perfect his fingering and his technique on the piano, Bobo Stenson practices at home by playing some Johann Sebastian Bach? And that’s only one example of the many influences which can be perceived in this great jazz musician’s style, along with classic jazz, atmospheric jazz, avant-garde experiments, … The Trio combines them all in a surprisingly natural and spontaneous way.

Bobo Stenson started his career with the label ECM with his involvement in Jan Garbarek's Sart, one of the very first recordings of Manfred Eicher’s German record label. A month later, in his ECM debut as a leader Stenson tapes his trio album Underwear.

With Jan Garbarek, Stenson co-leads from 1988 the immensely popular quartet that records two ECM albums, nowadays counting as classics of the era.

In the late 1980s, Stenson's profile begins to rise even more due to his association with the American cult saxophonist Charles Lloyd whose return to music after a self-imposed absence of 20 years is one of the most significant jazz events of the 1990s. Whilst touring extensively with Lloyd in the U.S. and Europe, Stenson appears on Lloyd's first five ECM albums. During one of these recordings, on hearing about the collaboration with Polish trumpet player Tomasz Stanko, the producer M. Eicher convinces Bobo to bring Stanko back into contact with ECM. This leads to three even more extraordinary ECM albums by this trumpet player.

He currently has his own trio (with bassist Anders Jormin and drummer Jon Fält), which is often compared to the legendary trios of Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett.

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