Mjölby Storband – Big Band Music with tradition
Mjölby
Storband has a jazzhistory
of more than 30 years.
Mjölby storband started 1966 by Svante Johansson (picture). He has supplied the orchestra with
many arrangements during all these years still playing in the orchestra.
Bandleader begining from 2008 is the son of Svante, Niklas Hakegård. He has a proffessional background, even though not in the big band. The band participation is purely volontarely without salery.
Mjölby Storband is a traditional Big Band with a saxophone section, a trumpet and a trombone section, drums, bass, guitar and piano. Helene Hjertstedt is the vocalist.
The repertoire, which originally and mostely was influenced by Basie and Herman, has evolved to contain more than 800 arrangements with different styles of jazz music. From modern jazz to traditional swing music.
Benny Bailey at Linköping Jazz &Bluesfestival,1997 playing with Mjölby Storband
Svante Johansson
A special repertoire for dancing is included. Here you find music by
Glenn Miller, Basie, Sinatra and Nathalie Cole etc.
Many interesting names are among the guests featured by Mjölby Storband.
Despite that fact that this Web-Sliteis in Swedish,hopefully there are some pages interesting enough to look into.
Please send us a mail if you have any questions or want to book us.
