Toppklass is a guitar trio, but also a bass trio and a drum trio. A trio looking for new ways to play jazz.

Boel Mogensen - 🎻
Johan Ekeberg - 🎸
Maria Dahlin - 🥁

A native of the Bronx, Samara Joy became entranced by classic R&B as a child and cut her teeth as a singer in her church’s gospel choir. And while her family history is deeply musical — her grandparents helmed the Philadelphia gospel group the Savettes, and her father, the musician and songwriter Antonio McLendon, has produced, composed and arranged his own astounding original work — she didn’t delve into the jazz tradition until college at SUNY Purchase. During her studies there she won the 2019 Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition, which introduced her to the larger jazz scene as a rising star to watch.Joy released her self-titled debut on the Whirlwind label in 2021, followed a year later by Linger Awhile, her breakout Verve debut.  

 Portrait, is the proper follow-up to Linger Awhile, her 2022 breakthrough LP, and it represents the next phase in her continuing artistic evolution — unbound by expectations. It also spotlights her burgeoning gifts as a lyricist, in ingenious arrangements that meld her thoughtful words with music by Charles Mingus, Sun Ra and her late mentor Barry Harris. Co-produced with the veteran trumpeter/bandleader and multi-Grammy winner Brian Lynch, the album was tracked in streamlined sessions — just two or three takes of each tune — at one of jazz’s most hallowed sites, Van Gelder Studio. The vocalist offers an album that both honors jazz heritage while staking out bold, singular territory.

JUNO is a young band consisting of five musicians who met at the prestigious Jazz Academy in Trondheim, Norway. Their catchy pop tunes combine complex groovy rhythms, rap and experimental improvisation. All of these elements result in an exciting and energetic live performance, which during the last two years has been widely appreciated by the Norwegian audience.

In 2019 they will release their first record with Kristoffer Lo (known from Highasakite and PELbO) as their producer. 

Thea Ellingsen Grant, vocal
Malin Dahl Ødegård, vocal
Mona Krogstad, tenor saxophone
Georgia Wartel Collins, upright bass
Ingvald Vassbø, drums

Jazzsångerska och låtskrivare baserad i Göteborg.

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I am a young producer based in Sweden and i make electronic music. Hope you enjoy✌️


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