Thomas Backman
The Band
Josefine Lindstrand Oskar ScHönning Julia Schabbauer
Keyboards vocals Bass & guitar Drums vocals
Thomas backman
saxophones clarinets
"Crime Jazz”, “Jazz for a new generation” & “slow-burn yearning widescreen chamber pop” .
There are many ways trying to describe the unique sound of reedplayer Thomas Backman´s band. In the group, founded in 2016, Backman have put together some of his favorite musicians, all of them award winning, well-known Swedish musicians to an “all-star”-unit.
The members have worked with artists and bands like Django Bates, Uri Caine, Hilmar Jensson, Loney dear and Klabbes Bank.
At Aug 29 2018 the critically acclaimed debut album: ”Did you have a good day, David”? was released at the label Modern Musik. Since then the band have performed at major festivals and clubs such as The Rochester Jazz Festival and Nublu in USA, Pizza Express in London as well as Nefertiti Jazz Club and Stockholm Jazz Festival in Sweden
“Each player was a creative mastermind, maximizing their possible range and output. Whether teetering into techno, bursting into bombast, or coasting quietly on a beautiful melody, the quartet had the audience rapt for the full hour.”-Eli Stein, NYS Music
"The Swedish quartet’s mixture of slow-burn yearning widescreen chamber pop with elements of jazz and electronica deserves wider attention-------Sparkling synths and haunting hocketing vocals with beautiful lyrics in Swedish and English charting icy topographies reminiscent at times of Björk"
-AJ Dehany London Jazz News
”They played their proverbial asses off, generating an intensity that suggested that playing this music represented an essential cathartic process”-Ian Mann, The Jazz Mann
upcoming
June 5-6 2020--
Reykjavik, Iceland
Blackbird festival
postponed! NEW Dates TBA
May 8 2021
Västerås, Se
Jazzfesten konserthuset
Sep 17 2020
Umeå, sweden
studion
April 24 2021
Mölndal, se
katakomberna
previous
Aug 3 2016
Trosa, SE
Trosa Stads kyrka
July 14 2017
Söderhamn, se
Världsarvsjazzen
Okt 12 2016
Stockholm, Se
Stockholm Jazz
Festival
July 26 2017
Trosa, se
Trosa stads kyrka
August 16 2018
Trosa, SE
Trosa Stads Kyrka
August 30 2018
Stockholm, sE
scalateatern
Official release show!
March 9 2019
Helsingborg, SE
Tivoli
april 16 2019
bollnäs, se
bollnäs jazzclub
june 27 2019
New York city, ny, US
Scandinavia house
june 28 2019
New York city, ny, US
nublu 151
July 28 2017
Stockholm, se
Glenn miller cafe
October 15 2018
Stockholm, sE
glenn miller cafe
stockholm jazz festival
Apr 20 2017
Upplands Väsby, SE
Picchus Cafe
July 27 2017
Sandviken, se
musik i bruksmiljö
Apr 21 2017
Alvesta, Se
Alvesta Jazz & Blues
October 18 2018
Vänersborg, sE
Vänersborg musikförening
may 16 2019
gothenburg, se
nefertiti
June 22 2019
Washington, Dc US
Nordic jazz festival
August 14 2019
Trosa, Se
Trosa Stads Kyrka
October 2 2019
Sandviken, SE
Björksätra kyrka
Apr 22 2017
Kristianstad, Se
Blue Bird jazz
November 23 2018
London, Uk
Pizza Express soho
London jazz festival
Sep 27 2017
Gävle, se
Gävle jazzclub
Mar 7 2018
Malmö, se
bullret, inkonst
January 31 2019
Mariehamn, AX
Alandica Auditorie
May 4 2017
Umeå, Se
Umeå Jazzstudio
May 11 2017
Svalöv, se
Fridhems fhsk
June 30 2018
Sandviken, SE
Jazzfestival Bangen
March 8 2019
Malmö, se
Jazz i Malmö
June 24 2019
Baltimore, md US
An die Musik Live
February 1 2020
Strängnäs, Se
Åkers Kyrka
August 5 2020
trosa,se
trosa stads kyrka
June 26 2019
Rochester, ny, US
rochester jazz festival
June 25 2019
Cleveland, oh, US
bop stop at the
music settlement
"All the music on the album is done with care, precision and warmth" -Jan Gradvall Dagens Industri
It´s a, let me say it directly, very good debut. Varied, resourceful, personal and serious" -Dan Backman Orkesterjournalen
Rated 4/5
"A personal music that breaks the Imagination of traditional improvisation without templates or copying something else...."Jazz for a new generation"
-Göran Olson Gefle Dagblad
"We think of Kamasi Washington. But this swings a lot more than Washington....Throughout the whole album we are served musical experiences, extremely varied and nice --Jan Granlie, Salt Peanuts
"A band picked out at the finest delicatessen counter
-Patrik Lindgren, Lira
"Did you have a good day, David" is the name of Thomas Backman´s critically acclaimed debutalbum which was released digitally and on a vinyl limited edition release at the label Modern Musik with distribution of Klangbox at August 29 2018.
The album is recorded at Studio Dubious in Stockholm in November 2017 and consists of 9 songs, all of them Thomas compositions, and 3 of them written with Josefine Lindstrand´s lyrics.
Elements of bebop and freejazz as much as from hiphop, indie pop and chamber music appears in the music. Together with the dynamic arrangements, the intimite interplay and with Christoffer Roth´s carefully crafted mixes "Did You Have A Good Day, David?" sounds pioneering, unique and "outside the box" in the jazzgenre today.