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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. 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. For
the time being he works a lot with the Swedish vocalist Linda Pettersson
and in January 2005 another CD was recorded with ESQ and Linda. The music
is all ES-originals with lyrics by Dave Castle. It is called LIGHT&SHADE
and was released in September 2005. 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. |