Håkan Broström Quartet featuring Joey Calderazzo/Jeff ”Tain” Watts

Håkan first met Joey Calderazzo at a jam session in Umeå 1986. In 1994 they did their first tour together.However it took another 14 years before they played together again. This time, in 2008, they recorded the album "Refraction" with bassplayer Martin Sjöstedt and drummer Daniel Fredriksson.With this quartet they toured Scandinavia in April 2009 and April 2012. In December 2012 Calderazzo´s fellow musician from both Michael Brecker and Brandford Marsalis band, drummer Jeff "Tain" Watts, was invited to play with Håkan´s Quartet.

Now it´s time again.This time with Daniel Franck on bass.The music is mostly compostions from the band members with maybe a standard or two as well.

Håkan Broström is one of Sweden’s top names in jazz. He has played with some of the biggest names on the scene.Via the Norbotten Big Band, Swedish Radio JazzOrchestra and the band Sixtus, he has played with such legends as Herbie Hancock,McCoy Tyner, Dave Liebman,Kenny Wheeler,Chris Potter, Joe Lovano, Philip Catherine, Toots Thielemans and Putte Wickman .Håkan Broström has toured and played as aband leader and sideman with among others Tim Hagans, Bobo Stenson, Adam Nussbaum and Palle Danielsson.

Joey Calderazzo's career got off to a strong start with a series of fine Blue Note albums. He studied classical piano from age eight, discovered jazz a few years later, and hit the big time when he joined Michael Brecker's band in 1987. He went on to record with Brecker, Bob Belden, Jerry Bergonzi, Rick Margitza, and Bob Mintzer. In addition to his own projects, Calderazzo replaced the late Kenny Kirkland in the Branford Marsalis Quartet.With his rich catalog as accompanist and leader, Joey Calderazzo is indisputably one of the finest in jazz. He lays it all out — in conversation, in performance, and on recordings. There’s no filter between the musician and the music. Typically being the youngest musician in an established group has made Calderazzo a tough nut, a fearless improviser, and an outspoken individual pianists.

Jeff “Tain” Watts  is  one of the most in demand jazz drummers in the world today, Jeff joined the Wynton Marsalis Quartet in 1981 and proceeded to win three Grammy Awards with the ensemble. Watts left Wynton Marsalis in 1988. After working with George Benson, Harry Connick. Jr. and McCoy Tyner, he joined the Branford Marsalis Quartet in 1989.

Jeff joined Kenny Garrett's band after returning to New York in 1995 after three years in LA on the Tonight Show. Watts also continued to record and tour with Branford Marsalis as well as Danilo Perez, Michael Brecker, Betty Carter, Kenny Kirkland, Courtney Pine, Geri Allen, Alice Coltrane, Greg Osby, Steve Coleman, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, and Ravi Coltrane.A true jazz innovator, Watts never fails to deliver the percussive magic that has been his trademark since his emergence on the contemporary jazz scene.

Daniel Franck, born in Sweden but lives in Copenhagen,Denmark. where he has become one of the most hired bass player.He has played with people like Kenny Werner, Kirk Lightsey, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Scott Hamilton och Caecilie Norby, Benny Golson, Stacey Kent och Al “Tootie” Heath.