Magnus Ostrom (Sweden) at Bray Jazz Festival at Mermaid Arts Centre

About

Magnus Öström is one of Sweden’s top jazz stars, a band leader whose music is effortessly beautiful, drawing its influences liberally from jazz, electronica and rock.
For fifteen years Öström was the drummer with the Esbjorn Svensson Trio (e.s.t.), the most successful jazz band in the world at the time. His band honour that Nordic jazz tradition of creating a sound that has an epic and cinematic sweep.
“… utterly beautiful and compelling … the playing is immaculate, the compositions truly inspired, the arrangements magical." – BBC Radio 3