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Cool Funeral Beer at Stockholm and Umeå Jazz Festivals

2022-10-13 Public Rehearsal III will take place at Hörsalen, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden 7:30 p.m.on October 23, 2022. Tickets at...

Last concert with Beches Brew

2020-09-22 In December 2019 we did our last concert at Studio HPKSM in Gothenburg (they still have not paid...

“inimitable composer and guitarist Mr Klinghagen, the writer of this extraordinary music.”

2020-05-08 "Each of the musicians plays with idiomatic elegance, and as you are seduced you will be mesmerised by...

Hälsingland – by the lake, beside the trees

2019-10-15 On November 1st we release Göran Klinghagen's album Hälsingland, jazz music based on classical Swedish folk music songs,...

Final Beches Brew concert?

2019-10-13 Beches Brew is back at Studio HPKSM together with William Soovik's Grand Finale in Gothenburg on December 7...

Akkarai Sisters will be back in October

2018-07-26 We are extremely happy to have Akkarai Sisters with Jayachandra Rao and Shreesundarkumar back in October 2018 for...

First video from the Beches Indian Brew album

2017-08-09 Here is a relaxed version of "Congo Square" from the recording of Beches Indian Brew, filmed at Kulturhuset...

Here are our 2017 releases!

2017-07-31 Country & Eastern Newsletter August 2017 From August 24 you can enjoy three wonderful new albums: ORI VARIATIONS,...

Photos from the Bucky Dome in 1971 and 2012

2017-03-05 I just upped some photos from the Bucky Dome that was kindly provided by Moderna Muséet on my...

Beches Indian Brew – Swedish tour concluded – wonderful response

2017-02-18 Thank you all for a wonderful tour. We had full houses in Stockholm and Umeå and feel very...

C&E Newsletter – Januari 2017

2017-02-17 Farewell concerts in 2017 ! Country & Eastern newsletter Januari 2017 At the end of the summer I'll be...

C&E nyhetsbrev – Januari 2017

2017-02-17 Avskedskonserter 2017 ! Country & Easterns nyhetsbrev Januari 2017 När sommaren tar slut fyller jag 75 och tänker att 2017...

SIMBA – Månadens Indie: Country & Eastern

2016-12-27 Swedish Independent Music Business Alternative presents Indie of the Month for December 2016 - in Swedish

Beches Indian Brew – Swedish tour concluded – wonderful response

2016-11-05 Thank you all for a wonderful tour. We had full houses in Stockholm and Umeå and feel very...

Last concert on Beches Indian Brew tour + Edith video

2016-10-28 Saturday morning you can hear the Akkarai Sisters in Umeå and in the evening we play our last...

Copenhagen, Malmö last two days. Tonight we play Kristianstad

2016-10-22 Beches Indian Brew played Copenhagen on the 20th,  Malmö last night and at 7 pm we play at Kulturkvarteret...

Drawings by Martin Ehrling from our first concert

2016-10-18 On October 16 we gave our first Beches Indian Brew concert in Stockholm. Martin Ehrling did these. The...

Umeå Jazz Festival – from the press conference

2016-09-20 Umeå is where we conclude our tour for the Akkarai Sisters and for Beches Indian Brew. Today this...

The golden poster just arrived

2016-09-15 Now, just one month till the tour starts!

Our 2015 albums – Now via streaming

2016-09-04 One year has passed so now we make our 2015 releases available via streaming media. Last years albums...

Beches Indian Brew – concert tour October 16 – 29

2016-09-01 Thanks to a grant from Musikverket we have been able to visit India twice during the last twelve...

Huge update of the Country & Eastern site!

2016-08-31 There might still be some minor problems and some photos and stuff are not uploaded yet, but basically...

Presentation of our Karnatic guests

2016-08-13 At the new artist page you find a presentation of the Karnatic vidwans. We are proud and happy to welcome...

Apart & Pizza Excess w Beches Brew from TISS in Mumbai 20160112

2016-07-01 Joyful versions of Apart and Pizza Excess from our Beches Indian Brew tour, recorded at Tata Institute of...

”Kanjira Man” with Beches Indian Brew in October

2016-06-09 B. Shree Sundarkumar is one of the leading Kanjira artists in the world of Rhythm music. Having entered...

Shree Sundarkumar, ”Kanjira Man”

2016-06-02 B. Shree Sundarkumar is one of the leading Kanjira artists in the world of Rhythm music. Having entered...

Beches Brew live @ Blue Frog, Mumbai

2016-05-31 A video by Jöns Jönsson from our gig at the Blue Frog in Mumbai on January 14, 2016....

Old and New Dreams – OND PINGST lördag-söndag på Pygmeteatern

2016-05-12 Den legendariske Bo Anders Persson från Träd, Gräs och Stenar är i stan på lördag! Man behöver inte...

Bengt Berger, drums, composer, leader

2016-05-05 ” There is vorticist movement in percussion colorist Bengt Berger's music. Like a whirling fluid mass slingshot around the...

Max Schultz, guitars, banjo

2016-05-03 ”Guitarist Max Schultz is a revelation, an inventive player with a sublime sense of melody.”  Max Schultz is...

Göran Klinghagen, guitars, banjo

2016-05-03 ”Klinghagen reevaluates fusion, mid-60s Miles Davis, and Ornette Coleman, melding these and other influences into a unique musical...

Jonas Knutsson, saxophones

2016-05-03 Jonas Knutsson, saxophones “Knutsson is also one of the most expressive saxophonists playing today. Combine this with his flawless...

Thomas Gustafsson, saxophones

2016-05-03 ”He plays the tenor and the soprano saxophone as if they were a prolongation of himself. His way...

Sir Thomas Jäderlund, saxophones, bass clarinet

2016-05-03 ”Breathtaking virtuosity and impeccable taste by a saxophonist with the whip-like crack of Eric Dolphy’s alto and a...

Stefan Bellnäs, bass, steel guitar

2016-05-01 ”He plays anything from metal to folk music as if it is his very speciality” Stefan Bellnäs hails...

“Jädermeister” from the India tour

2016-04-24 We are preparing some more videos from our Indian tour. In these we will focus not on the...

The first video from the January tour: “Happy Hindu”, Mumbai 2016

2016-02-05 On January 12, 2016 we played our last concert in Celebration of tabla guru Pandit Taranath Centenary in...

Beches Brew’s concerts in India – grand success!!!

2016-01-04 On the morning of January 3 we gave our concert in Chennai together with the four marvelous Karnatic...

On December 28 Beches Brew leaves for Chennai and Mumbai!

2015-12-27 There will be no album deliveries while we are in India. You may buy albums from our site...

Spjärnsvallet in Denmark last week

2015-12-16 These three young men could be heard in Aarhus and at Global in Copenhagen last week. Bengt Berger, Christer...

C&E Newsletter – November-15

2015-11-21 Berger Knutsson Spering in India – Praise for our new albums – Beches Brew gives two concerts in...

Rave reviews for BLUE BLUE by Berger Knutsson Spering Schultz!

2015-10-26 We were quite pleased with our album Blue Blue, but is it really THAT good? "Relationships come easy...

BKS completed the Pandit Taranath Centenary tour

2015-10-14 Here you see Berger Knutsson Spering together with many of Pandith Taranath's students since a very long time...

After 19 years the Berger Knutsson Spering trio found a fourth member…..Max Schultz! Now we release our first album BLUE BLUE!

2015-09-08 WELCOME TO RELEASE CONCERTS W BENGT BERGER, JONAS KNUTSSON, CHRISTIAN SPERING AND MAX SCHULTZ ON THURSDAY, FRIDAY AND...

Presenting our september releases 1: BLUE BLUE

2015-08-16 After 19 years as a trio, Berger Knutsson Spering found a fourth member and its Max Schultz. Here is...

Our new albums are in the mail today

2015-08-11 Is child labour and old people with a pension necessary to run a record label today? Today our...

Samples from our september releases

2015-07-25 By accident I published sample tracks from our three albums to be released on september 9. You can...

Jonas Knutsson turns 50 today – Congratulations!

2015-06-25 Jonas Knutsson is a very important part of Country & Eastern. Not only as a member of Berger...

Peter Sjöblom om våra senaste två skivor

2015-06-11 In "Tidningen Kulturen" you will find the most inspired music critique (if you read swedish): Det är i...

Max Schultz joins Berger Knutsson Spering – first album just recorded

2015-05-25 A week back Max Schultz joined Berger Knutsson Spering for a recording in the lovely Atlantis studio. Mixing...

Spjärnsvallet goes vinyl – release concerts

2015-05-09 The Gothenburg label Omlott has licensed Again and Again and is releasing a vinyl version with their own cover art on May...

Good reviews of last years releases arrived today!

2015-03-02 The new issue of Orkesterjournalen carries very positive reviews in swedish of our albums with Thomas Jäderlund Amazing...

OLD AND NEW DREAMS -our new club, next on saturday 28/2

2015-02-22 OLD AND NEW DREAMS Musical meetings on the last saturday every month January 31 LAS VEGA was back...

OLD AND NEW DREAMS – our new club opened on january 31

2015-01-19 OLD AND NEW DREAMS Musical meetings on the last saturday every month January 31 LAS VEGA is back...

Three days of release concerts starting TODAY!

2014-11-18 TONIGHT (Nov 18): Thomas Jäderlund Amazing Trio at Glenn Miller Café in Stockholm TOMORROW (Nov 19): Thomas Jäderlund Amazing...

Our November e-mail newsletters

2014-11-02 Info about our 2014 releases and release concerts: Here is the english e-mail: http://www.countryandeastern.se/category/2014-november-eng/ och den svenska e-posten: http://www.countryandeastern.se/category/newsletter/2014-november-swe/ If you...

Spjärnsvallet releases AGAIN AND AGAIN! in concert on December 8

2014-11-01 Country & Eastern is very happy to announce the release of the album AGAIN AND AGAIN with SPJÄRNSVALLET at a...

Four new C&E releases coming up! – October 2014 Newsletter

2014-10-19 All of the Country & Eastern releases in 2014 arrive in November this year. One great jazz album,...

Four new C&E Releases coming up! – October 2014 Newsletter

2014-10-19 All of the Country & Eastern releases in 2014 arrive in November this year. One great jazz album,...

Musical Jackpot but economic disaster – LAS VEGA CLOSED

2014-10-13 When you play music that’s not all that mainstream one of the most important recordings in the history...

Musical Jackpot but economic disaster – LAS VEGA CLOSED

2014-10-12 When you play music that’s not all that mainstream one of the most important recordings in the history...

LAS VEGA – ny Jazzklubb i Stockholm, varje lördag – höstens program

2014-10-06 On october 4 Bernt Rosengren was back and October 11 featured Max Schultz and Tommy Berndtsson with Christian Spering...

Live in Göteborg-Lund-Stockholm this weekend

2014-10-02 Torkel Rasmusson med Berger-Bellnäs på Stadsbiblioteket vid Götaplatsen på fredag kl 18. Beches Brew (very) BIG på Mejeriets...

Soon, very soon!

2014-08-28 Soon, very soon!

C&E on Soundcloud

2014-08-13 We have updated our Soundcloud site with free samples from all later releases. Try it when in need...

Country & Eastern on iTunes

2014-07-14 We have had a lot of problems getting correct titles and artists on iTunes for our productions but...

Fanart from Japan

2014-07-12 Japanese manga artist Harukichi just send us fanart from the duet album with Kjell Westling from 1977. Two more...

Live C&E music: Beches Brew on saturday and Berger KEIJSER Spering on sunday and then some more

2014-06-12 This saturday at 5 pm at Bengans in Gothenburg: Beches Brew will play a free concert with our...

Our next album: Sir Thomas plays JAZZ!

2014-05-09 Country & Eastern are happy to announce that we have completed recordings and mastering of our next album...

The Country & Eastern YouTube channel

2014-03-29 We are currently uploading various C&E related videos on our YouTube channel. So far there are videos of Bitter...

Our Newsletters – March 2014

2014-03-19 Here you find our newsletter in english and swedish

Really great reviews for Beches Brew BIG

2013-11-29 "There is a a good chance that anyone who experienced this great band will become a fanatic." -...

Berger Knutsson Spering at Plugged Records – interview and video

2013-11-07 Find out more about Plugged Records  

Beethoven Grand Tour completed – two videos

2013-09-28 In swedish: I Beethoven Grand Tour vill vi fånga den Beethoven som binder samman musikalisk tradition med omstörtande modernism,...

On Wednesday September 11 at 8 pm: Release/concert/party at Mosebacke

2013-09-09 Mexican master percussionist Rafael Sida has joined swedish-senegalese duo Ellika and Solo for the brilliant new album NOW....

Our new albums are in the mail today!

2013-08-07 Here is a link to the newsletter:

Also on september 11: Beches Brew BIG and BAG

2013-07-19 Livet Nord – voice, violinJonas Knutsson - soprano- alto -baritone saxophones, percussionThomas Gustafsson – soprano- tenor saxophonesSir Thomas...

Next album: Beches Brew BIG – ALIVE

2013-05-24 There is a minor problem though. We recorded two nights in Stockholm and Gothenburg and the Beches Brew band...

Live jazz at S/S Marieholm, Gothenburg on tuesday may 14

2013-05-12 Wonderful trumpetist Staffan Svensson will be our guest on the lovely ship S/S Marieholm for our second concert...

Beethoven Grand Tour – rehearsals started

2013-05-03 Country & Eastern has recieved a grant from Statens musikverk to produce a piece that Niklas Rådström presents...

All of our 2012 releases

2012-11-17 Bengt Berger-Roland Keijser-Kjell Westling: The Vedbod Tapes and More Vedbod TapesIn a “vedbod” (woodshed in swedish) in the...

New releases from Country & Eastern

2012-10-06 On october 20 and 21 these two albums will be released in concerts in Stockholm and Gothenburg:Saturday October...

PIECE IN PEACE

2012-10-03 Överallt i vårt samhälle står tomma klangrum och tysta orgelpipor och väntar på att fyllas med ny musik....

Swedish National Treasure Nr 5: Jonas Knutsson

2012-10-03 Den 19:e september 2012 tilldelades Jonas Knutsson hederstiteln "Swedish National Treasure No 5", varpå han prompt spelade en...

Jonas Knutsson awarded Swedish National Treasure No 5

2012-10-01 "Gång på gång tror man att han kommit så långt som är möjligt i sin musik och i...

PIECE IN PEACE

2012-09-29 All around are to be found empty acoustic rooms and silent organ pipes waiting to be filled with...

Beches Brew BIG had a wonderful september tour

2012-09-25 The opening of our last night on the Beches Brew BIG tour in september 2012. At Nefertiti in...

Swedish National Treasure No 5: Jonas Knutsson

2012-09-20 On september 19 2012 Jonas Knutsson was awarded "National Treasure No 5", whereupon he played a magnificent version...

Mångkanalsinspelning på Fasching och Nefertiti

2012-09-18 Sigge Krantz spelar in oss med alla dessa mikrofoner onsdag och fredag så allt bör komma med. Här är...

Beches Brew BIG! Septemberturnéns tre sista konserter!

2012-09-18 Förra året fick jag till min stora glädje Jan Johansson- stipendiet. Med det följde en konsert vid årets...

Beches Brew – på cd

2012-09-18 Albumet kom ut 2009. Det innehåller en hel del av låtarna vi kommer att spela under septemberturnén. Raul...

Beches Brew BIG – september tour is NOW!

2012-09-06 THE BAND:Livet Nord - voice, violin Jonas Knutsson - saxophones Thomas Gustafsson - saxophones Sir Thomas Jäderlund - voice, saxophones, bass clarinet  Mats Öberg - voice, harmonica, keyboards Göran...

Bucky Dome Finale on september 9

2012-09-05 Xylofonorkestern Stora Blå with Christer Bothén at 1 pm The Don Cherry Workshop at 3 pm with Berger Knutsson...

Beches Brew BIG! September tour

2012-09-05 Last year I was the proud recipient of the Jan Johansson stipend, which included a concert date at...

The Bucky Dome in the summer of 2012

2012-09-04 In the garden shared by the museum of Architecture and the Museum of Modern Art, the Bucky Dome,...

Beches Brew BIG! Septemberturné

2012-09-04 Förra året fick jag till min stora glädje Jan Johansson- stipendiet. Med det följde en konsert vid årets...

Beches Brew – på cd

2012-09-03 Albumet kom ut 2009. Det innehåller en hel del av låtarna vi kommer att spela under septemberturnén. Raul...

The Beches Brew album – english

2012-08-26 This cd was released in 2009. It contains quite a few of the songs we will play in...

The last Don Cherry workshops coming up

2012-07-31 We restarted the Cherry Workshops in august and will play every tuesday at 5 p.m. until the last...

Country & Eastern News – may 2012

2012-05-10 Hectic days for Country & Eastern: A few days after the end of the Bible we are heavily...