Bobo Stenson

Born in 1944 (in Sweden) Bo Gustav Stenson, better know as Bobo Stenson, the baby of the family, receives his first musical inspiration from his family. His father and mother play, respectively, piano and violin. His two brothers and sister (also respectively) practice the drums, trombone and cello.
As a child, Stenson studies classical piano at the home of Werner Wolf Glaser, (a German-born Swedish composer, conductor, pianist, professor, music critic and poet (1910-2006), who becomes his most important teacher and mentor for 15 years.
The trio recordings War Orphans (1998, ECM 1606) and the double CD Serenity (2000, ECM) (with Anders Jormin on bass and Jon Christensen on drums and recorded at an extraordinary site in front of HageGarden) place Stenson firmly among the greatest living jazz pianists. The recordings, (including excellent compositions by Stenson), become albums of the month in publications around the world.
Meanwhile, in response to a delightful concert in Antwerp a second solo album is recorded.
At the release of the trio album Goodbye (2005), (this time with Paul Motian in the drummer’s seat), Stenson tours the United States once more, playing seven cities in seven days. In 2005 he receives the Swedish royal medal Litteris et Artibus, awarded for important contributions to culture, especially music, dramatic art and literature. Stenson has been referred to as "the greatest living jazz pianist born outside the United States. He is a poet of the first order. Stenson's spontaneous melodic and harmonic discoveries, his trajectories and distant departures, arrive at a breakthrough to lyricism that, once found, sounds like it has always been there" (JazzTimes, 2005, Thomas Conrad).
A year later Stenson wins the European Jazz Prize, Musician of the Year.
In 2008 the trio releases a new CD Cantando: this time with Jon Falt on drums and Anders Jormin on bass. The album is lauded by the international press, and in 2009 receives the Swedish award for best jazz music. The trio criss-crosses Europe, and appears at major jazz festivals.
The new ECM album Indicum (ECM) with regular bass player Anders Jormin and drummer Jon Fält  - recorded in Lugano in December 2011 - explores a broad arc of material. Wide-ranging repertoire has become a hallmark of Bobo Stenson albums.
  With “Indicum” the trio gets in 2013  - for the third time -  the Manifest Prize, is  Grammy-nominated and becomes OJ ‘s (OrkesterJournalen ) Golden Disk winner.