Mathias Sandberg New Release, The Captain, And His 30-Date Tour

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Mathias Sandberg – new album and 30-date tour

Mathias Sandberg‘s highly anticipated new trio album The Captain is out now. The album was recorded live at the legendary Doo-Bop Club, and showcases his unique blend of hard swingin’, groovy and soulful jazz with strong melodic writing, rhythmically playful improvisation and a delightful, almost telepathic interplay between the three.

The highly acclaimed guitarist and composer Mathias Sandberg has been called “one of Finland’s best kept secrets”, and is one of the hardest working jazz musicians in the country.

Sandberg studied at Manhattan School of Music in New York and Berklee College of Music in Boston and worked with some of the greatest artists on the Nordic jazz scene, including Georg Riedel, Pierre Swärd, Peter Asplund, Jukka Eskola, Teppo Mäkynen and Manuel Dunkel to name a few.

Sandberg plays a hundred or so concerts a year and has toured both Europe and the United States. His trio with Zacharias Holmkvist on bass and Stefan Brokvist on drums, is now embarking on a 30-date nationwide tour to celebrate the new release.

Check out the tour dates HERE.

Listen to, order and/or download The Captain HERE.

ABOUT MATHIAS – Born in Jakobstad on the west coast of Finland, Sandberg started playing guitar at the age of eleven and landed a teaching job at the main music school in the region just five years later. After graduating from the conservatory in his hometown and a short stint at the Berklee College of Music, he moved to New York City to attend the prestigious Manhattan School of Music.

After returning back to Finland to his new home base of Vaasa, he formed the Mariah Hortans / M Sandberg Duo, with whom he has released three albums and played more than 700 concerts both domestically and in the US.

Sandberg also formed the now almost legendary soul jazz quartet Dr. Sandberg’s Soul Clinic. Though the band was short-lived, “The Doctor”, as he is still referred to, soon formed the first incarnation of the Mathias Sandberg Trio, which has since become the hardest touring jazz group in Finland.

In the last two years, the Mathias Sandberg Trio has in spite of several lockdowns, played more than 100 concerts from Enontekiö in the North to Helsinki in the South – in line with their socially and environmentally informed motto of bringing jazz to the people, not the other way around.’

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