Rebecka Törnqvist

Rebecka Törnqvist was essentially the most essential artist in bringing up the eye in young feminine jazz vocalists in Sweden within the ’90s, though her single albums weren’t 100 % pure jazz, but instead pop with large jazz influences. Aside from getting a amount of followers within this design, she also revitalized the eye for your genre. This is not merely her function, but performers like Per “Tx” Johansson possess her to thank for raising the commercial prospect of Swedish jazz. Törnqvist’s debut recording, A Night SUCH AS THIS, was released exactly the same yr as Bo Kaspers Orkester released their effective jazzy debut. The albums had been similar in a few elements, but where Bo Kaspers Orkester got a witty, ironic stand in jazz music and extended towards R&B, Törnqvist lacked the irony and her strategy was serious, adult, and clean. In 1993, Törnqvist produced her debut using the recording A Night SUCH AS THIS. Support her was a big area of the Swedish jazz top notch, including titles like Esbjörn Svensson, Anders Widmark, and Per “Tx” Johansson, as well as the mix of jazz and pop demonstrated very successful, not really least commercially. Törnqvist’s following recording, POSITIVE THING, was certainly pop, but additionally showed affects from slick spirit and blues. In 1996, she released her initial pure jazz record, Stockholm Kaza Program, as well as saxophonist Per Tx Johansson and 2 yrs afterwards, Tremble My Center, that was a go back to the mixture of pop and jazz. Another calendar year she was among the members within the supergroup Gloria, produced by Lars Halapi, where Törnqvist sang as well as vocalist/songwriter Sara Isaksson. The group released a self-titled record in 1999. In 2001, Törnqvist released a fresh single record, this time made by Halapi, who acquired also created Gloria. Vad Jag Vill was her initial record in Swedish and was also a stage further from the laid-back jazz-pop that acquired produced her well-known.