Biography
The ensemble known as Tingvall Trio, headed by pianist Martin Tingvall, merges contemporary and post-bop jazz with threads drawn from the Swedish, German, and Cuban roots of its members. Their first outing arrived as Skagerrak in 2006, while Vägen reached the German album chart in 2011. Three ECHO Jazz awards followed, and the group kept shaping its worldwide jazz approach across the 2017 release Cirklar, the 2020 album Dance, and Birds in 2023.
Martin Tingvall was born in 1974 in Sweden’s southern province of Schonen. He took up piano early, studied at Skurups Folkhögskola, and later sharpened his jazz piano technique, compositional craft, and improvisational skills at the Malmö School of Music as well as through private lessons with Bobo Stenson. After completing his training he settled in Germany, where he worked alongside artists including Udo Lindenberg, Inga Rumpf, and Gunther Gabriel.
In 2003 Tingvall formed the trio by teaming with Cuban bassist Omar Rodriguez Calvo and German drummer Jürgen Spiegel. Their modern jazz facility combined with the varied traditions each brought produced the 2006 debut Skagerrak. Wider notice came with Vägen in 2011, which entered the German charts. Following a live album the group delivered the studio recording Beat in 2014, then issued its seventh album, Cirklar, in 2017.
Accolades accumulated along the way, among them three ECHO Jazz awards for ensemble of the year. Dance appeared in 2020 and drew on an assortment of global styles spanning reggae, Latin, and Middle Eastern music. A similar fusion of Latin, African, and European elements surfaced on Birds in 2023.
Martin Tingvall was born in 1974 in Sweden’s southern province of Schonen. He took up piano early, studied at Skurups Folkhögskola, and later sharpened his jazz piano technique, compositional craft, and improvisational skills at the Malmö School of Music as well as through private lessons with Bobo Stenson. After completing his training he settled in Germany, where he worked alongside artists including Udo Lindenberg, Inga Rumpf, and Gunther Gabriel.
In 2003 Tingvall formed the trio by teaming with Cuban bassist Omar Rodriguez Calvo and German drummer Jürgen Spiegel. Their modern jazz facility combined with the varied traditions each brought produced the 2006 debut Skagerrak. Wider notice came with Vägen in 2011, which entered the German charts. Following a live album the group delivered the studio recording Beat in 2014, then issued its seventh album, Cirklar, in 2017.
Accolades accumulated along the way, among them three ECHO Jazz awards for ensemble of the year. Dance appeared in 2020 and drew on an assortment of global styles spanning reggae, Latin, and Middle Eastern music. A similar fusion of Latin, African, and European elements surfaced on Birds in 2023.
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