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 8 CDs with his own groups:
PRESENT DIRECTIONS (Ewan Svensson Trio 1991) w/ Palle Danielsson-bass, Magnus Gran-dr.
REFLECTIONS (Ewan Svensson Quartet 1993) w/ Ove Ingemarsson-tenorsax, Matz Nilsson-bass, Magnus Gran-dr.
NEXT STEP (Ewan Svensson Quartet 1995)
STREAMS (Ewan Svensson Trio 1996) w/ Yasuhito Mori-bass, Magnus Gran-dr.
In 1999 he was asked to write and arrange music for his quartet and a classical string-quartet which resulted in the CD MEETING (ESQ&Ginestra String Quartet 2000) tours, Radio&TV and partially a new audience.
FIGURES (Ewan Svensson Trio 2001).

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.

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.
A new cd is planned to be released in 2008.

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.