Summer Jazz
Swinging & Atmospheric
An exclusive, jazz-infused concert experience with the Evmark Trio, who both sing and play. Three worlds – one stage, where Legrand, Sting, and The Beatles meet jazz. A musical mix that leaves no one untouched, featuring music by Django Reinhardt, Michel Legrand, Ted Gärdestad, and Dan Evmark’s own compositions. There will also be Swedish folk songs, jazz classics, and a touch of French film music.
Together with the Little Venice Ensemble, this becomes a wonderfully genre-crossing Midsummer concert with jazz, French elegance, and richly resonant strings.
Evmark Trio:
Mother Margaretha has worked with many of Sweden’s most established jazz musicians and has performed in various constellations. She has recorded four albums – “Havsvind” with Jan Allan, “Reflektioner” with Anders Hagberg, “Indian Summer” with Nils Landgren, and “Get Out of Town” with Rolf Jardemark.
Father Dan, pianist, arranger, and composer, was inspired to a life in music after meeting Lars Gullin at the age of ten. He studied at the University of Music in Gothenburg and has worked as a piano teacher both there and at Ingesund School of Music. Dan has participated in many productions and television projects, and has composed and produced three albums with musicians from the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, released on Naxos. He is also an artist and has held several exhibitions under the title “MUSIC ART.”
Together with their daughter Amelie, they form the Evmark Trio, which often offers audiences both laughter and tears. It is life, atmospherically accompanied by Swedish, American, and French tones with plenty of swing and musical playfulness.
Participants:
Little Venice Ensemble
Björn Kleiman – violin
Daniel Eklund – viola
Lily Beatrice Cooper – cello
Evmark Trio
Margaretha Evmark – vocals, double bass, guitar
Amelie Evmark – violin, vocals
Dan Evmark – piano, keyboards, vocals, arrangements
Jazz is a music genre characterized by, among other things, improvisation, advanced harmony with blue notes, syncopation, swing, musical instruments that “respond” to each other (so-called call and response), and polyrhythms. The term jam is jazz musician slang.
The word “jazz” has an uncertain origin, and a wide range of theories about its etymology have been proposed. One of these is that the word originally had a sexual meaning (similar to the term Rock ’n’ Roll) and would come from the word “jasm” or “jizm,” which in the mid-19th century referred to virility and vitality, with an origin as slang for semen. The word appears to have been used in print in sports journalism before it came to be used for a musical form.