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Thrilled to present this raucous double bill for the closing night of the 2025 Stockholm Jazz Festival.
Space — the trio of Lisa Ullén, Elsa Bergman and Anna Lund — destabilise conventional notions of the piano trio, making something new and unpredictable in their search for the sublime.
Returning to Stockholm for the first time since the five day run that netted their landmark 'Giant Beauty' recordings [Ahmed] rewire and reimagine jazz history in a gloriously locked-in summoning of collective joy — "a stamping, swinging, relentlessly propulsive music where profundity and physicality root right back to ecstatic feeling."
[Ahmed] – the quartet of Pat Thomas, Antonin Gerbal, Joel Grip and Seymour Wright – make music of heavy rhythm, repetition and syncopation set deep into an understanding of jazz and the obscure depths of its history. The group work and rework the music of the late musician Ahmed Abdul-Malik to create a stamping, swinging, relentlessly propulsive music where profundity and physicality root right back to ecstatic feeling.
Pat Thomas — Piano
Seymour Wright — Alto Saxophone
Joel Grip — Double Bass
Antonin Gerbal — Drums
Swedish piano trio Space works with nuance, power and precision. They draw from the American free jazz tradition and contemporary classical music, creating textured, dynamic soundscapes that shift from subtle to explosive.
With Lisa Ullén on piano, Elsa Bergman on double bass and Anna Lund on drums, each voice in the trio shines on its own while staying radically attuned to the others. Their latest album Embrace the Space (Relative Pitch, 2024) confirms their growing status as one of the most daring trios on today’s scene.
Lisa Ullén – piano
Elsa Bergman – bass
Anna Lund – drums