Joel Svensson Guitarist

  • News

    It has been a while now since my last update.

    I’ve been on a lot of conserts lately. Mostley at Glenn Miller Café and Fasching.

    Fläsket Brinner, Max Shultz and Way Beyond Band, The Beginners, Karl Olandersson.

    And I Played With Tigrén, Adefeldt, Tilling, Kviberg i torsdags på Stampen. That was a great Consert and a great audience. The Swedish Glam-rockers Crashdiet was actually sitting right in front of the stage. The Band and also hangarounds… Around 15 peaople in that gang. And thay were really fun and enjoyed our old swing/bop/blues-mix.

    I have orderd a new Ibanezguitar thats gonna arrive on tuesday! Gonna be fun.

    It looks like this:

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    I found it online at grear4you.com.

    At a really nice price. Thanx Ola Bengtsson for the recomendation :))

    I have also played on Rune Gustafssons old Anniversary Ibanez Les Paul. What a guitar!

    Here is some pictures:

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  • Jazztime

    I was at the StClara jam in Old town Stockholm today. It was fun!

    Met alot of old and new friends.

    Got new gigs at GMC also. Gonna be awesome!

    Rock n roll

  • Saturday blues

    I went to the Jazzbrunch at Mosebacke in Stockholm today to meet my friend Max Shultz and check he’s playing.

    I consider him to be one of the three best guitarists in Sweden, maybe the greatest.

    He’s a beast at blues!!

    He got excellent time and feeling! also great technique and flawless tone.

    He has taken the best things from Scofeild, Robben Ford, Mcloughlin and combined that with all he’s own stuff. I like it very mutch.

    He was playing there with Claes Askelöf, another great guitarplayer from Stockholm.

    They asked me to sit in on some songs and it was very fun!

     

    Here is some photos that Jan Hedin took 🙂

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    Me and Max outside in the cold.. -16c

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    Rock n’Roll

  • Me playing Doug Raneys solo on How deep is the ocean

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    My favourite part is 1:20 into the video when Doug plays a 2bars phrase that i think is in 5/8. That sound pretty great! pretty hip 😉

    I played with about the same gear as Doug on the clip to sound more like him.

    I used a Gibson Super400, Polytone Minibrute 3 with 15inch speaker and Trex-room-mate reverb.. I dont have any reverb in my polytone.

    I think Doug used a Gibson L7 and also a Polytone minibrute but with 10inch speaker on the album “Cuttin’ Loose” from 1978.

    I have written the solo down on notes if somebody wanna have it and try to play it themselves.

    Here is the PDF:

    How deep is the ocean Doug Raney solo

    Rock n Roll

  • Fun Jamsession

    Today I was  at Tönnånger and had a Jamsession with my old friends Steve, Bengt and Göran. We had a great time. Playing Bebop, Blues and having lot of Coffee. I also borrowed a Tenorsaxophone from Göran that Im gonna start play a little on.

    He got three tenors so he said I could try it out for a while. Its gonna be fun!

    Tomorrow im gonna put up a solo i transcribed recently. And Im also gonna write a little about it 🙂

    Its Doug Raneys solo on the song How Deep Is The Ocean.

    Heres a Photo from the session, Nice looking rehearsalroom 😀

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  • Great day at “Trettondagsjazzen”

    I played with Bosse Tigréns Quartet today at Gävle Conserthouse.

    It was a great ca75min gig (one set) and fun to meet alot of old friends that also played there.

    Some of the guys that played was Gus Dahlberg, Jutterström, Bertil Jonasson, Karl Olandersson to name a few

    I also met my old friend Göran Rahm (Saxophoneplayer) and alot of other people i know from Gävle (my hometown).

    Its 200km north of Stockholm.

    Bosse Tigréns Quartet was:

    Bosse – Clarinett

    Roffe Andersson – drums

    Uffe Mugnusson – Bass

    Folke Westerlund – Piano

    + Me.

    It was very fun and I might play with Bosse soon again.

    Here is some pictures from today:

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  • Joel Svensson – Doug Raney

    I want to write some words about Doug Raney. He is the son of the guitarist Jimmy Raney who played with Stan Getz among others.

    Doug is one of the best Jazzguitarists ever, and he has the best sound also.

    Doug often play Gibsonguitars and polytone-amp.

    I’ve seen him with Ibanez-guitars also but he’s main model is some kind of Gibson

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    He got some albums on the Danish label “Steeplechase” that is totally awesome.

    My favourites is:

    1. Cuttin loose’

    2. Introducing Doug Raney

    3. Listen

    4. Lazy Bird

    The albums features players like: Bernt Rosengren, Nils Henning Örstedt Pedersen, Billy Hart, Harace Parlan among others.

    Here is some links:

    Me playing Dougs solo from “Four” on hes album Cuttin loose. (Im 17 years old on this clip, now im 22)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-fsH9t6YfM

    Doug playing “Should I Care” and talking about jazzguitar on some TV Show:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH0SH_eCgx0

    Doug playing “How deep is the ocean”, also from Cuttin Loose’

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtY6gbeb3Ng

    I hope more people will hear Doug and appreciate he’s guitarplaying because I think he’s one of the big ones like Benson, Joe Pass.

    See ya

  • New gig

    Hey

    Im playing in Gävle at the conserthouse big stage kl 13:00 on Sunday 6 Januari. It’s a Jazzfestival there called “13dagsjazzen”.

    Gonna be fun to play in my Hometown.

    http://www.gavlejazz.se/

    Im gonna play with Bosse Tigréns Quartet. It’s music in the style of Benny Goodman :). Some nize Swing-jazz.

    My good friend Roffe Andersson is gonna play drums in the band. Its gonna be really fun to play with him again. He is the drummer of Sandviken Big Band who is one of Swedens Finest Big Bands.

     

    Here is some Photos from the nice Jamsession in Huddik.

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    Rock n roll 🙂

  • Jamsession in Hudiksvall

    Today was fun! I went to Hudiksvall and participated in my friend Martin Bergers Jamsession at the Jazzclubb there.

    It was around 12-15 musicians and a sitting audience of about 80-people so it was a very nice session.

    Some of the players were Martin Berger, Kristoffer Sundman, Johan Timan, Eddie Mikka, Ulrika Beijer, Gunnar Åkerhielm, Gösta Svensson… and a lot more 🙂

    It was a great time. Mostly traditional Jazz.

     

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    In the car. On my drive there and back. I listened on the new Unofficial Biography about Yngwie Malmsteen. Its very interesting!

    Im gonna write more about that when i have listen to the whole book 🙂

    I got it on CD as a Christmas present 🙂

     

    Later when i got home, I practised Classical Guitar 2hours 🙂

    It was the first time i played classical for like 2years but Im gonna pick it up again.

    Im Working on Vals Venezolano NO 3 (Natalia) by Antonio Lauro right now.

    Im gonna record a video and put up here when I have practiced it enough.

     

  • Good musicmovies

    I’ve resently seen two very good movies that i recomend.

    1. Mo’ better blues, that features the music of Branford Marsalis Band and Jeff “Tain” Watts is also in the movie.

    Really cool movie with nice music.

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    2. Sweet and Lowdown. Its about the worlds second best guitarist after Django Reinhardt. Its very funny! and I really enjoy Sean Penns acting.

    Djangostyle music all through the movie. niize!

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