Ewan Svensson, since 25 years considered by many to be one of Sweden´s foremost and interesting jazz guitarists, has been both a member and leader of a succession of many jazz groups since the end of the 70´s. Except for jazz he has played in almost every musical genre. He has played the guitar since the age of 10 and at the age og 12 he got his first electric guitar. At that time he began playing in different pop&rock, and later, bluesbands as well as in proffesional dance-bands for some years. From being self-taught he applied for Music Conservatory in 1975 where he studied both classical and afro-american music for 4 years. At that time his interest for jazzmusic grew stronger and he also began writing original compositions. He graduated as pedagogue of jazzimprovisation as well as music teacher.

He has played, and still does, as sideman in a raw of groups but mainly he has concentrated on his own music and projects. In 1983 he formed his first group under his own name. It started out as a trio but grew to a quartet - Ewan Svensson Quartet which since then has existed in different constellations, toured regularly and made several records which have all been well received.
In 1987 it was time to put together a new trio, then for the purpose of accompanying the world-famous Polish saxophonist Zbigniew Namyslowski for a tour in Sweden. That collaboration continued for some years with tours to clubs, festivals and radio and TV engagements in different parts of Europe.
Records with ES-compositions:
FIRST FLIGHT(Crystal Eagle 1989),
STRING (String guitarduo 1990)
FLYING CARPET (Ulf Andersson Band 1998)
Since 1991 he has released 9 CDs with his own groups and mainly his own original compositions:
1991 PRESENT DIRECTIONS (Ewan Svensson Trio) w/ Palle Danielsson-bass, Magnus Gran-dr.
1993 REFLECTIONS (Ewan Svensson Quartet) w/ Ove Ingemarsson-tenorsax, Matz Nilsson-bass, Magnus Gran-dr.
1995 NEXT STEP (Ewan Svensson Quartet)
1996 STREAMS (Ewan Svensson Trio) w/ Yasuhito Mori-bass, Magnus Gran-dr.
2000 MEETING (ESQ & Ginestra String Quartet)
2001 FIGURES (Ewan Svensson Trio)
2004 JUST LIVE TO TELL THE TALE (Ewan Svensson New Quartet ) w/ Antoine Herve - piano, Y. Mori - bass, M. Gran - dr.
2005 LIGHT&SHADE (Ewan Svensson Quartet feat. vocalist Linda Pettersson)
2009 THE SUNFLOWER (Hannah & Acoustic 3) w/ Hannah Svensson - voc. Mattias Grönroos - bass, Tommy Holmgren - dr.

ES has performed mostly in Europe but also in Japan, Brasil and USA. He has occasionally played with a lot of artists like:
Art Farmer, Bob Berg, Clark Terry, Scott Hamilton, Johnny Griffin, Toots Thielemans, toured with Kenny Wheeler, Maria Schneider, Georgie Fame a.o.

In 1999 he was asked to write and arrange music for his quartet and a classical string-quartet which resulted in the cross-over project called MEETING with tours, Radio&TV and partially a new audience.

At the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm Ewan Svensson received the pedagog-award for 2003 from His Majesty the King. For "important work within the music pedagogue area ". The individual motivation was: "for Ewan´s remarkable work with teaching improvisation where his students developes both personally and within the group, parallell. Ewan is also, through his own professional work as a jazzmusician, a great source of inspiration for his students".

In 2004 it was 20 years since the first edition of ESQ and he put together a new quartet with the same setting, guitar-piano-bass-drums feat. the great French pianist Antoine Herve. The CD JUST LIVE TO TELL THE TALE was recorded for the Japanese label "Spice of Life" and was released in Japan in March 2005.
In January 2005 another CD was recorded with ESQ and Linda Pettersson. The music is all ES-originals with lyrics by Dave Castle. It is called LIGHT&SHADE and the group performed a lot in Sweden as well as France and also had a great succes in Japan in 2006.

In 2007 ES received 2 different awards. In July a stipendium from the biggest folk-song-festival in Sweden, "Hwitan´s Visfestival" and in December he received Falkenberg City cultural-prize for 2007.

For the last 2 years ES has, a.o. been playing a lot with his daughter Hannah, vocalist, in a band called Acoustic 3. They released the cd The Sunflower in 2009 and together they do 60-70 concerts/year.