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grammis:: Grammy Award 2016 (Sweden) ::
Best jazz album 2015 - Folk (Caprice Records)

:: Grand Prize Académie Charles Cros 2015, France ::
Album Jazzoo - Oddjob (Little Village / Harmonia Mundi)

:: Grammy Award 2014 (Sweden) ::
Album Jazzoo - Oddjob (Headspin Recordings) best album for children

:: Best album of the year 2011 :: Sunday Times, UK ::
Album Clint (ACT)

:: Grammy Award 2003 (Suède) ::
Album Oddjob (Headspin Recordings) best jazz album 2002

 

Following JAZZOO, winner of the Charles Cros Grand Prix de l'Académie 2015 (FR), for the Best Children's Album and the Swedish Grammy Award 2014. And following CLINT, awarded 'Best Jazz Album 2010' by The Sunday Times (UK) and also winner of the 'Nordic Music Prize 2011' for his X/Y album, Goran Kajfes, accompanied by his collegiate group ODDJOB and musicians, friends and collaborators of 20 years standing is now back in another register with their two new albums, FOLK, winner of Best Jazz Album 2015 at the 2016 Swedish Grammy Awards and last PLAYS WEATHER REPORT, a tribute to this legendary group.

The Oddjob five-piece band is a perfect example of the energy and high quality of the current Scandinavian scene. The previous nine albums were critically acclaimed by both the Swedish and the international press and were all nominated for Grammy Awards in Sweden winning the prize three times.

For Eponyme (2002), for Jazzoo, Best Children's Album in 2014, and for Folk, Best Jazz album 2015 at the 2016 Grammy Awards

Awarded four stars by Jazz Magazine (May 2016)

About Folk : The excellent Swedish jazz group Oddjob, have taken on the challenge of exploring and recording live seven compositions inspired by the album Lockrop & Vallatar (Caprice records). The latter was made up of a series of rare audio files from the agricultural world recorded by Matts Arnberg between 1948 and 1964.

By using these sounds, the group has rediscovered a form of pastoral music which had completely disappeared from the cultural heritage including ambiance and noises from the countryside featuring bird song, the voices of young shepherds talking to the flock, the sound of a birchbark trumpet (forerunner of the trumpet) or the spilopipa (a wooden whistle).

The backdrop of original sounds was handpicked and woven together using contemporary writing forms and passed through Oddjob's subtle jazz filter. It is a concept and an interpretation only this musical group could depict in such an original and creative fashion. The music is powerful, moving with a striking precision but also playful and contemporary.

The group says it is the best music they have recorded to date.

 

 

 

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Oddjob - Album Luma - "Dariaa"

Oddjob -Album Folk - "Folk No 1"

Oddjob- Album Plays Weather Report - "River People"

Press releases
Jazz Magazine
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“Everyone agreed and was knocked out by Goran Kajfes on the trumpet. His playing brings together elements that are rare to find in the same musician. He is powerful, even agressive, yet always very melodic . At the end of the concert, he showed just how magnificently he could play the blues. A real revelation!“ Jean-François Mondot - Jazz Magazine

“It's so beautiful, it makes you want to cry. A must-have among contemporary jazz albums and one which in the not too distant future will become a jazz classic.
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Jazz Magazine 4 étoiles ****
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"... Straightaway seduced by the style of this Swedish five-piece band who harmoniously mix acoustic and electric sounds in their winning compositions featuring excellent soloists. Fascinated by the totally unconventional rhythms and melodies, they use folklore as an original source of inspiration for the compositions which follow atypical, inspiring outlines... A huge success." Pascal Rozat

Citizen Jazz
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"The success of the disc resides in the phase closer to us on the chronological frieze: rewriting. The transfiguration of these pastoral themes sounds as if they had been written in the present. Oddjob is simply endowed with a particular talent: knowledge to transmit." Citizen Jazz – Anne Yven

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Upcoming dates
02 Feb 2021
(SE) Jazz in Halmstad
Halmstad (SE)
Oddjob
02 Feb 2021
(SE) Nissanscenen
Halmstad (SE)
Oddjob
04 Feb 2021
(SE) Caféscenen i Spira
Jönköping (SE)
Oddjob
07 May 2021
(SE) Victoriateatern
Malmö (SE)
Oddjob
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Formation on tour

Formation on tour

Goran KajfeŠ – Trumpet // Per "Ruskträsk" Johansson - Alto saxophone, flute, bass clarinet // Daniel Karlsson – piano, rhodes, electrical organ // Peter Forss – bass // Lars Skoglund – drums

ODDJOB 5tet
 - Program Folk

ODDJOB 5tet - Program Oddjob 20 years (Sumo, Clint, Koyo, etc...)

Discography

Discography

Plays Weather Report
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Folk
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2014 |
Live in Bremen
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2013 |
Jazzoo ‎(CD, Album)
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2010 |
Clint ‎(CD, Album)
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2008 |
Sumo ‎(CD, Album)
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2006 |
Luma ‎(CD, Album)
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2003 |
Koyo
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2002 |
OddJob ‎(CD, Album, Dig)
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Press review

Press review

oddjob - folk press review
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Distinctions

Distinctions

2017 |
Nomination Grammy Award (SE
Oddjob Plays Weather Report
2016 |
4**** Jazz Magazine (FR)
Folk - Oddjob
2016 |
Grammy Award 2016 (SE)
Folk - Oddjob - best jazz album 2015
2015 |
Grand Prix de l’Académie Charles Cros (FR)
album Jazzoo - Oddjob - best album children
2014 |
Grammy Award 2014 (SE)
album Jazzoo - Oddjob - best album children 2013
2011 |
Nordic Music Prize (NO)
album X/Y- best nordic album 2011
2003 |
Grammy Award 2003 (SE)
album Oddjob eponyme - best jazz album 2002
Biography

Biography

Trumpeter extraordinaire, co-founder of Headspin Recordings.

Goran is of Croatian heritage, grown up in Sweden in a family of musicians and artists. He is, since many years, an obvious authority at the very core in the Swedish music scene. A sought after session player, touring musician, arranger and producer. Goran has performed with José Gonzales, Stina Nordenstam, Eagle-Eye Cherry, Lester Bowie, The Soundrack of our Lives and many many others. Last year he was appointed Artist in Residence at Stockholm Jazz Festival. He was given the honour of composing and performing the opening ceremony of Stockholm Museum of Modern Art in 2006. He´s written music to several movies and produced a number of albums including ”Clint” by Oddjob that was named Jazz Album of the Year by Sunday Times in the UK 2010.

Kajfes debut Home (2001), where a mulitude of influences was mixed into an appealing and spicy brew established him as being at the forefront of crossover visionary electro-jazz. The sequel, Headspin (2005) won the Swedish grammy award for best jazz album for the very same reasons. The albums took Goran around the world performing with his own band.


Line-Up :

Goran Kajfes - trumpet
Jonas Kullhammar - flute and tenor saxophone
Per "Ruskträsk" Johansson - flute, sopranino and baritone saxophone
Jesper Nordenström - organ
Andreas Söderström - electric guitar
Johan Berthling - electric bass
Johan Holmegard - drums

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