Magnus Broo
Magnus Broo is a Swedish jazz musician known from own recordings and collaboration with Norwegian jazz musicians like in the band Atomic.
Career
Broo was born in Husqvarna, Västervik, Småland, the son of a trumpeter, and participated in the Visby big band before he attended musical training at North Texas State University. Back in Sweden, he was incorporated into Fredrik Norén Band, and also collaborated in the orchestra of Lennart Åberg.Broo's expression is a continuation of free jazz and Ornette Coleman's style from the 1960'th, and he is central in the Norwegian/Swedish band Atomic. He also leads his own 'Magnus Broo Quartet with Torbjörn Gulz on piano, Mattias Welin on bass and Jonas Holgersson on drums. They released the albums Sudden Joy, Levitaton, Sugar Promise and Pain Body. Moreover, he also collaborates in Fredrik Nordström Quintet.
Discography
Solo albums
;The Magnus Broo Quartet- 1999: Sudden Joy, live recording
- 2002: Levitation
- 2003: Sugarpromise
- 2008: Painbody
- 2018: Rules
- 2008: Game, with Paal Nilssen-Love
- 2010: Swedish Wood
- 2013: ''Bubble''
Collaborations
- 2001: Feet Music
- 2003: Boom Boom
- 2004: Nuclear Assembly Hall, with "School Days"
- 2005: The Bikini Tapes, live recording
- 2006: Happy New Ears
- 2008: Retrograde
- 2008: Distil, with "School Days"
- 2010: Theater Tilters
- 2011: Here Comes Everybody
- 2013: There's A Hole in the Mountain
- 2015: Lucidity
- 2017: Six Easy Pieces
- 2018: Pet Variations
- 2004: Moment
- 2005: No Sooner Said Than Done
- 2008: Live in Coimbra
- 2007: 4 Corners
- 2007: Boots Brown
- 2014: Dashes To Dashes
- 2008: Every Woman Is A Tree
- 2010: Epileptical West : Live in Coimbra
- 2009: Collaborations
- 2009: Never Forgotten, Always Remembered
- 2009: Lorena
- 2011: It's A Delicate Thing
- 2011: Kafka in Flight
- 2012: What Country Is This?
- 2013: Head Above Water, Feet Out of the Fire
- 2012: Takes Off
- 2013: In Our Midst
- 2014: ''Injury''