JAZZ & BLUES REPORT (US)
”Anders Hagberg has produced a recording of considerable substance and beauty.”

”Hagberg’s superb flute playing is displayed on the opening ”Islands of the North” with the wonderful backing by the rhythm section. Pianist Toivanen is a marvelous musical companion. The lyrical tone of Hagberg’s bass flute opens the pensive rendering of ”Inga” with restrained, supportive backing. With technical command of his instruments, Hagberg’s focus is on fostering a mood…The title track incorporates ambient sounds on an austere, dreamy tone poem with Hagberg’s soprano sax conjuring up an arctic night over the light foundation provided by the rhythm section, with Norbakken being especially outstanding with his percussion on this selection. Some of the same qualities are also present in ”Silent Ways,” with the voicing added by Lundberg’s bass adding to the distinctive mood engendered by Hagberg’s flute…”
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Lira Magazine (2020 Top List):
“This year’s most suggestive jazz. The music of masterful wind player Anders Hagberg is palpably borne up by precisely this quality of suggestiveness—as if each note carries an image, a feeling, an impulse toward something higher.”
Review in Swedish

OJ Jazz (Recommended Pick):
“Music with spiritual depths…Skillful, passionate performances, beautiful and sublime, with a hint of mystery tucked in tenderly here and there.”

TEXTURA (Canada): “Music that exudes feeling, warmth and humanity, and presents small-group interplay at an exceptionally high level” (Canada)
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Opulens magazine for culture and the arts (5/5):
“Musicians of the highest caliber…world-class.
A musical voyager in the borderlands between jazz, folk and chamber music. He (Hagberg) preserves places, memories of people and musical encounters by letting them all live on in his music.”

For the new album, NORTH, Anders has put together a Nordic “dream team” of his new and old musical colleagues. The music for NORTH was recorded over two days in late February 2020, just before the world was paralyzed by the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic.

Taking a handful of compositions as a starting point, the recording session for NORTH captured musicians in a flow of inspired, intuitive collaborative music-making, present in the moment and open to meeting one another in improvised musical interludes.

Anders Hagberg – flutes, soprano sax, ambient sounds
Joona Toivanen – piano, zither
Johannes Lundberg – double bass, voice
Helge Norbakken – percussion

LIVE MUSIC FROM SWEDEN feat. TRUST

Anders Hagberg TRUST – LIVE at FOLK. September 21, 2019

NEW ALBUM – TRUST

”An enchanting musician who unites the improvised freedom of jazz with an archaic quality.” UNT

”A fantastic interpretation of waves, winds and the singing of whales.” GT

ANDERS HAGBERG and JOHANNES LANDGREN
–flutes/soprano sax & church organ/piano

”Celestial inspiring music.” all about jazz

“These two musicians … create an organic, almost physical sensuality.”/Lira

“You just feel very grateful…unbroken passion.” /Hallandsposten

”Hagberg and Landgren offer some stunning moments.” /Greenman Review

”Magical Melange” (Times of India)

VIDEO from our main concert at Sori Festival, Jeonju, South Korea, Oct 3, 2018.

UPCOMING TOUR IN NOVEMBER, 2018 at Swedish Jazz Clubs.

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Review in Swedish

ANDERS HAGBERG QUARTET – STORIES OF NOW

“…exquisite world jazz, both rhythmically rich and mellifluous…” Lira

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”… Hagberg plays, constantly inventive and with a highly vocal quality to his musicianship.”    GP

” The groups´ improvisational quality was finely balanced with a sense of direction and destination; one was carried along a world journey.”               Washington D.P.

“…The world…grow both larger and smaller when we listen to Stories of now.”  OJ

Anders has been commissioned to compose music for a number of films, dance performances and exhibitions of visual arts.

TEACHING
Anders is a Professor in Musical Performance, specialized in Improvisation at the Academy of Music and Drama, Gothenburgh University.
His work includes teaching (individual and ensemble classes in improvisation, lectures and seminars) supervising student thesis, mentorship.

His work with artistic development and research at the Academy resulted in conducted several projects and recordings.
Link to published works

Here is an article about teaching improvisation at the University. Instrumentalundervisning i improvisation – en balansgång mellan tre perspektiv

He has been doing Workshops and Master Classes all over Scandinavia as well as in America and Asia.

As a pedagogue he is offering seminars, courses and masterclasses in Jazz, Improvisation and World Music.

Since 2007 he has been teaching at the Summer course Blekinge Jazz & World.

WINDUO
”Human communication, crossing musical borders…astoundingly expressive”. / JazzLife, Tokyo

Anders Hagberg and japanese bass player Yasuhito Mori started playing duo together in 1985. Since then they have gone through many phases, developing the rare touch that only somes from a long musical friendship.

Both musicians work in other groups but keep returning to this duo, where the traditional roles of solo and comp are replaced by an open script for two voices in free flight. On the repertoire you will find Japanese lullabies and Swedish folkmelodies, but also bluesy rhytmic grooves and viruoso unison parts in a close dynamic interplay.

Winduo has made 5 CDs and toured both Europe and Japan. They have also performed with others, including Japanese pianist Wong Wing Tsan, a number of Swedish and Indian percussionists, modern dance ensembles and with the Ginestera string quartet.

EARTHSONGS
”Boundary crossing music at its very  best…modest beauty, magical sounds…breaths love, veneration and respect for the roots.”

Earthsongs was formed by Anders Hagberg from a will of expressing his nordic roots, using the melodies from joiks and herding calls as a starting point for improvisations. Together with experiences of Indian and Japanese music, Earthsongs has explored soundworlds where jazz, world and ambient meet.

The CDs EARTHSONGS and THE HERD were both nominated for swedish grammy award and the group has featured some of the finest nordic traditional vocalists including Sami Inga Juuso and Faroese Eivor Palsdottir. Earthsongs has been featured at the openings of several festivals and exhibitions where Stockholm Millenium Celebration and ”Eldnatt” at Urkult Festival is worth noting. In 2004 they recorded music for STENRISTARNA, a TV-documentary. The CD and DVD was released in 2005.

”Earthsongs amused me deeply and wholehearted. Beautiful lines, interesting harmonies and rhytmical variety were  forming the base of their success.” Dziennik Polski.