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Ulf Bandgren

Ulf Bandgren

About Me

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After breaking the ”neck” off his first banjo, eleven year-old Ulf Bandgren stepped into a music store in Uddevalla. He wanted a new one. Instead, the creative shop assistant gave him a six string guitar banjo and this was his way into the magic world of guitar playing. Today he is a musician in great demand within different musical genres. However his heart beats within Jazz music in which he teaches guitar/ensamble at the Academy of Music and Drama, University of Gothenburg.

Here is a selection of artists/musicians/conductors Ulf has worked with during his career:

Etta & Debbie Cameron, Svante Turesson, Bernt Rosengren, Krister Andersson, Anders Jormin, Tomas Franck, Sven-Eric Dahlberg, Rickard Åström, Erik Norström, Ace Of Base, Carola Häggqvist, Bengt Andersson, Lagaylia Frazer, Lill-Babs Svensson, Ove Ingmarsson, Ursula Dudziak , Sonya Hedenbratt, Yasuhito Mori,Tommy Körberg, Willy Lundin, Brazz Brothers, Nisse Landgren, Justo Almario , Jan Allan, Lill Lindfors, Putte Wickman, Lars Jansson, Peter Burman, Terje Sundby, Anders Persson, Erik Gullbrandsson, Eva Rune, Yasuhito Mori, Helen Sjöholm, Monica Domenique, Susanne Alfvengren, Roger Pontare, Sanna Nielsen, Charlotte Perrelli.

Mario Venzago, Nemi Järvi, Pietro Rizzo, H.K Gruber, Martin Yates, Anthony English, Finn Rosengren, Anders Eljas.


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Member Since: 4/6/2008
Band Website: imogena.se/catalogue/cd.php?catid=IGCD%20094
Band Members: Anders Persson, Anders Jormin, Peter Burman,Terje Sundby, Niclas Rydh, Lennart Grahn, Robin Rydqvist, Tomas Josson, Joakim Rolandsson, Christer Olofsson
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CD Review, All About Jazz:While eleven musicians are named in the album’s booklet, only five comprise the core unit on Ulf Bandgren’s perceptively drawn Nordic Sketches, and the harmonious interplay among them is a pleasure to hear. Bandgren’s expressive guitar, acoustic or electric, traverses the landscape with smooth, colorful strokes while the others in his quintet (and from time to time a six–member company of brass and reeds) consummate his well–proportioned tone poems. It’s not music to raise one’s hackles but flows to an unpretentiously mellow groove that produces its own rewards. The eight songs are Bandgren’s, and each one is agreeably symmetrical and musically impressive. The brass and reeds make their first appearance on track 2, “Nimba,” and provide further melodic adornment on “Bugs,” “Neptunus” (which opens with a tasteful unaccompanied choral section for the ensemble before Bandgren and the quintet make their entrance), “Waltz from Koster” and the bluesy “You Know When You Got It.” Bandgren’s lissome guitar and Anders Jormin’s resonant arco bass set the tone on the pensive finale, “Vitra,” on which they impart earnest sentiments while colleagues Peter Burman, Anders Persson and Terje Sundby furnish listening ears and resourceful hands, as they do on every selection. One of them (I assume it’s Persson, as he’s listed on piano, Burman ..boards”) is a strong soloist as well, showing that ability rather quickly on the opening “Sketch.” The music is quite Nordic in temperament, with a deceptively cool veneer shielding a much warmer nucleus that is closest to its heart. Even though the warmth isn’t always conspicuous, it is no less exhilarating when one uncovers it.~ Jack Bowers
Jazzfestival 2006 Italy.Ulf Bandgren Git .Svenna Dahlberg Piano.Reymond Rea Bass.Dieter.Schöning.Violin. Benkt-Åke Nilsson.Drums
Record Label: Imogena
Type of Label: Indie