1 Nov 2026
Concerts
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Stockholm Jazz Festival: Céline Dessberg’s mystical jazz spell

Last weekend, Fasching welcomed Céline Dessberg, a French-Mongolian singer and yatga player who blends the cultural influences of both countries into nostalgic soft jazz. Growing up between France and Mongolia, she draws on the Buddhist and pastoral traditions of her Mongolian heritage alongside influences such as jazz musician Chet Baker and the eclectic pop of […]

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Stockholm Jazz Festival: corto.alto’s jazz rave

Liam Shortall, known as corto.alto, is a Glasgow-based composer and multi-instrumentalist who is quickly but steadily rising to fame with his take on blending jazz with electronics, hip-hop, soul and funk. This year, he took the Stockholm stage with support of Terra Kin, an intimate folk guitar soloist. Jazz rave? Yes, sir, it’s possible. In […]

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Stockholm Jazz Festival: Danny Grissett Trio’s lagom jazz

Danny Grissett is an American jazz pianist and composer known for his lyrical touch and smooth delivery. This year, he came to Stockholm with his trio, featuring British bassist Orlando le Fleming and Italian drummer Francesco Ciniglio. They performed Danny Grissett’s own tunes with a focus on his 2025 Travelogue album, alongside his arrangements of […]

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Stockholm Jazz Festival: Bohren & der Club of Gore’s still dark jazz

Bohren & der Club of Gore is a German band featuring Morten Gass on guitar, keyboards and drums, Robin Rodenberg on bass and drums, and Christoph Clöser on saxophone, piano, keyboards and drums. Best known for their distinctive dark jazz, ambient textures and doom-laden soundscapes, the band builds its music around minimalism, stillness and space.  […]

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Stockholm Jazz Festival 2026: Rymden’s art of tension 

Rymden are a Scandinavian jazz trio: Norwegian pianist and keyboardist Bugge Wesseltoft, Swedish bassist Dan Berglund and drummer Magnus Öström. Since their 2019 debut Reflections and Odysseys, they have blended minimalism with melancholy and dramatic intensity. Their sound ranges from atmospheric piano to rhythm-driven improvisation. On their latest album, Valleys and Mountains (2023), they build […]

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Stockholm Jazz Festival 2026: Cochemea’s rhythmical witchcraft

For over 25 years, American saxophonist and composer Cochemea has worked across genres, drawing on his Yaqui heritage and Mexican roots to create music that connects ancestral traditions with contemporary sounds. His trilogy, All My Relations (2019), Vol. 2: Baca Sewa (2021) and Vol. 3: Ancestros Futuros, explores the relationship between past, present and future, […]

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Dexys Midnight Runners: A prescription against boring ageing

Dexys Midnight Runners are an English band led by singer and songwriter Kevin Rowland. Best known for their 1982 hit Come On Eileen, they have reinvented their sound repeatedly over more than four decades, from brass-driven soul to folk-tinged pop, while keeping the raw emotional intensity that defines their music. Last Sunday, Dexys Midnight Runners […]

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Yasukazu Kano and Mattias Lindberg – Prayer for Peace

Japanese shinobue musician Yasukazu Kano and Swedish jazz pianist and composer Mattias Lindberg have been building a musical dialogue between Japan and Sweden through an ongoing collaboration. Their music weaves traditional bamboo flute with jazz, improvisation and Nordic soundscapes, moving between stillness, energy and spontaneity.  The theme of the concert – peace – comes from […]

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Mulaa Joans brings a whole lot of feeling to Stockholm

There was something rather fitting about Mulaa Joans’ Stockholm debut at Debaser Nova on Monday night: the 19-year-old artist played to a room filled largely with girls around her own age – and quite a few who were clearly young enough to still need a parent to get them through the door. But if anyone […]

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Plastilina Mosh Bring 30 Years of Mexican Irreverence to Stockholm

There are concerts where you listen to a band. And then there are concerts where the entire room seems to collectively decide that, for the next couple of hours, there is absolutely no reason to stand still. Last night at Debaser, the latter happened. For their first-ever performance in Stockholm, Mexican duo Plastilina Mosh arrived […]

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