Lina Nyberg

Swedish jazz singer and composer Lina Nyberg released her 13th CD ”The Show” (Moserobie records) in May 2009. A live recording from a small theater in Stockholm where Lina and her new band (Cecilia Persson, piano, Josef Kallerdahl and Peter Danemo, drums) celebrated her 20 year anniversary as an artist. The CD was nominated to a Swedish Grammy and has gained a lot of attention both in Sweden and abroad.
In April 2011 the band (that one year ago was reinforced with experimental guitarist David Stackenäs) will release a new CD (Moserobie Records). The music is a blend of influences from Brazilian Tropicalia, European Free form, modern
classical composers, the American songbook and old school jazz. Her odd and poetic lyrics has a comical twist as well as a drastic significance inspired by dreams and real life.
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REVIEWS:
About concert at April Jazz Festival in Espoo Finland in april 2010 "… one should expect innovation and experimentation from her, and this she supplied in quantity with an evening of her own quirky compositions and banter. Her polished, witty style is matched by her well balanced quartet featuring the male powerhouse of Josef Kellerdahl and Peter Danemo on bass and drums, and the equally quirky, delicate piano work of Cecilia Persson. Nyberg's writing style is something of a cross between glee club and post punk songstress, described elsewhere as "avant cabaret jazz."…” ANTHONY SHAW ALL ABOUT JAZZ
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".brings a rare quality to the music that has become harder to find on the other side of the Atlantic: sensual maturity, candidness, and an admirable insistence not to comply with market rules which tend to target conservative and inattentive listeners. Nyberg, who has performed with some of the best Swedish jazz musicians (including Palle Danielsson, Anders Jormin and Esbjörn Svensson), can be playful, funny and smart. But on Tellus, she takes more risks and explores new frontiers.Tellus is Nyberg's eleventh disc as a leader and her second for the independent Swedish Moserobie label.
She is accompanied by a triopianist Mathias Landæus, bassist Torbjörn Zetterberg, and newcomer Jon Fält, a member of Bobo Stenson's triobut she augments these fine players with some of the most adventurous players on the Swedish jazz scene: reed player Fredrik Ljungkvist and trumpeter Magnus Broo, both from the Swedish-Norwegian Atomic quintet; and guitarist David Stackenäs, a collaborator of Ken Vandermark and Mats Gustafsson. Eyal Haeuveni AllAboutJazz.com
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Theres something of Carla Bley in the avant-cabaret-jazz approach that Nyberg takes with this group. On Landala, a brief lyric introduction gives way to Per Texas Johanssons tenor saxophone solo and Broos overdubbed multiple trumpet lines.
The passage would surely stand on its own, as would the free jazz finale to Beijing. Prepared piano and roiling low tones introduce San Saba,
until a drunken swagger abruptly asserts itself, before reverting to the background, as Nybergs wordless chortles take the tune back into stranger regions of her world.
Tellus is, however, rather all-over-the-map. Fragments of singer-songwriter folkiness (Pincio) and minimal art rock (Salwa and Berlin) creep in alongside atonal lieder.
But Nyberg surely knows how to integrate what she hears, and the process goes beyond her own vocal lines. Clifford Allen AllAboutJazz.com