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Nils Berg

Born: October 9, 1977

There is a particular quality to the music Nils Berg makes — something that feels simultaneously ancient and restless, rooted and searching. It is a quality that places him in a long line of Scandinavian artists who have found a way to distill the Nordic landscape and temperament into sound: the lyrical economy of Jan Johansson, the melancholy warmth of Lars Gullin, the way Grieg could make a simple folk melody feel like it carried the weight of an entire geography.

Berg, a saxophonist, bass clarinetist and composer based in Stockholm, works in the space where jazz meets that broader Nordic sensibility — music that breathes slowly, that favors atmosphere and silence as much as notes, and that treats emotion as something to be approached with patience rather than force. Dubbed "the Fellini of Swedish jazz" by Dagens Nyheter and described as "mysterious and irresistible" by Rolling Stone, he has spent two decades building a body of work that is genuinely hard to categorize, and all the more compelling for it.

Paid To Cry

By Nils Berg

Label: Hoob Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Paid To Cry; Eyes On The Prize (Paradise); Jag Skulle Bara Hem; The Wood Hotel; Hunden; The Bigger Seed; Blues For Siw; Legan.

Eyes On The Prize (Paradise)

August 18, 2026

Album: Paid To Cry
By Nils Berg
Label: Hoob Records
Released: 2026
Duration: 05:30

Seven Colors Of The Universe

By Nils Berg

Label: Hoob Records
Released: 2023

Nicole Johänntgen, Antonio Lizana, Henri Texier, Tiziano Tononi & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
December 2, 2023

This time we bring you jazz that refuses to respect boundaries, or “Somethin' Else from Somewher' Else." In this episode we illustrate how jazz is arguably the most welcoming music genre of all, perfectly blending with musical traditions from around the world, from Native American and Latin American roots to Fado, Flamenco, Baroque British music and ...

Tak for dit brev

By Tobias Wiklund

Label: ILK Music
Released: 2021
Track listing: Mor; Nu Sejler VI; Måneløb; Luft; Et Postkort; Opdrift; Den Blå Stol; Albert´s Tic Tac; Godmorgen træ; Gå Gå Gå; Dansk Kulturarv; To Virkeligheder.

Toldam / Riedel / Berg / Wiklund / Christensen: Tak for dit brev

by Troy Dostert
October 6, 2021

Danish pianist Simon Toldam has made his mark as an abundantly creative improviser, most recently manifest on his work with Ways--a duo comprised of saxophonist Brodie West and drummer Evan Cartwright. Their Fortunes (Lorna Records, 2020) was an album defined by unusual gestures and subtle refractions, keeping the listener guessing throughout. Toldam's latest release, Tak for ...

Thandi Ntuli (Live at Jazzwerkstatt)

By Thandi Ntuli

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2020
Track listing: Setting The Tone for Exile (Live at Jazzwerkstatt); New Way (Live at Jazzwerkstatt); Portal (Live at Jazzwerkstatt); Rainbow Shane & Rico's Intro (Live at Jazzwerkstatt); Rainbow (Live at Jazzwerkstatt).

Tony Allen, Hugh Masekela, Luciana Souza, Dave Douglas & Other New Releases

by Ludovico Granvassu
May 9, 2020

We may be in lock-down mode but oustading jazz releases keep coming out as if nothing were of the COVID and the social distancing, bringing us much needed relief. One more reason to pay tribute to today's artists and to encourage everyone to support the music scene by purchasing music directly from the musicians and labels ...

Lisen Rylander Löve: Oceans

by Troy Dostert
August 14, 2019

While up-and-coming Swede Lisen Rylander Löve is a talented tenor saxophonist, demonstrated nicely in the quartet Here's to Us on the undersung gem, Animals, Wild and Tame (Hoob Records, 2018), she is hardly content to limit herself to one instrument--or even one genre, for that matter. In Here's to Us she teams up with trumpeter Susana ...