MARTIN TINGVALL

Post-Fusion Contemporary / Post Bop / Fusion • Sweden

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Martin Tingvall was born in the province of Schonen, in southern Sweden, in 1974. After attending a music high school he initially studied jazz piano, composition and improvisation at ‘Skurups Folkhögskola’, then at the Malmö Academy of Music. He also found time for an overseas semester in the Netherlands, at the Groningen conservatoire.

In 1999 Martin Tingvall completed his degree with a diploma concert at the Malmö Academy. That same year he moved to Hamburg where he has collaborated with many well-known artists from very different musical genres, such as Inga Rumpf, Orange Blue and Udo Lindenberg. He has also been on stage as a special guest alongside Till Brönner, Chris Barber, Pete York, Kurt Elling and Klaus Doldinger.

As a composer he was responsible for pieces for the ‘Vier Pianisten’ (Four Pianists) – four pianists from different genres, namely Joja Wendt, Sebastian Knauer, Axel Zwingenberger and Martin Tingvall himself on read more...

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MARTIN TINGVALL Tingvall Trio ‎: Skagerrak album cover

3.50 | 2 ratings

Tingvall Trio ‎: Skagerrak
Post Bop 2006

MARTIN TINGVALL Tingvall Trio ‎: Norr album cover

3.50 | 2 ratings

Tingvall Trio ‎: Norr
Post Bop 2008

MARTIN TINGVALL Tingvall Trio ‎: Vattensaga album cover

3.52 | 2 ratings

Tingvall Trio ‎: Vattensaga
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2009

MARTIN TINGVALL Tingvall Trio : Vägen album cover

2.57 | 2 ratings

Tingvall Trio : Vägen
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2011

3.50 | 1 ratings

En Ny Dag
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2012

MARTIN TINGVALL Tingvall Trio ‎: Beat album cover

4.50 | 1 ratings

Tingvall Trio ‎: Beat
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2014

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Distance
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2015

MARTIN TINGVALL Tingvall Trio ‎: Cirklar album cover

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Tingvall Trio ‎: Cirklar
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2017

3.00 | 1 ratings

The Rocket
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2019

MARTIN TINGVALL Tingvall Trio : Dance album cover

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Tingvall Trio : Dance
Fusion 2020

MARTIN TINGVALL When Light Returns album cover

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When Light Returns
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2021

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Birds
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2023

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MARTIN TINGVALL The Rocket in Space album cover

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The Rocket in Space
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2019

MARTIN TINGVALL live albums

3.09 | 2 ratings

In Concert
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2013

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MARTIN TINGVALL Tingvall Trio : Vägen

Album · 2011 · Post-Fusion Contemporary

snobb

Good news for everyone with a strong nostalgia for the melodic/melancholic side of EST's music - the fourth Tingvall Trio release is just honey for your soul! Recorded at the same studio in my beloved Italian Udine as their previous album (in 2009), this release is based on the same concept.

Nordic nu jazz roots (read - cool melancholic tunes with simplistic rhythms) are successfully melted with a warm Italian polished sound standard. As a result you have a strong collection of very accessible, even catchy in moments (but not memorable at all) compositions. You don't need to be a jazz fan to like this music (possibly it sounds a bit sarcastic, but it's even better - if you're not).

This current release is in fact nothing else but a repeat of the quite successful formula presented on this trio's previous album. No one expects experimentation or drastic direction changes from contemporary jazz artists, but on this release the musicians moved in an overly safe way. These are well composed songs that are pleasant and almost free of improvisation for the higher listener's comfort. the few post-bop inclusions sound more like useless attributes than natural components of sound.

Good jazz-related soundtrack for Nature's World series documentary, fits well for late summer evening dinner on the terrace.Even their previous album sounds really inventive and fresh comparing to this one. Hope trio's next work will contain more life and spices on it.

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MARTIN TINGVALL Tingvall Trio ‎: Vattensaga

Album · 2009 · Post-Fusion Contemporary

snobb

Hamburg-based Tingvall Trio is well known around Germany and often is compared with EST.Such comparison has its ground - Trio's leader Martin Tingvall is Swedish pianist and his music is obviously influenced by Bobo Stenson and is full of Nordic aerial melancholy.

At the same time two other Trio's members bring quite different flavor to band's music - Jürgen Spiegel is a rock drummer from Bremen and Cuban bass player Omar Rodruguez Calvo brings warm and soulful southern breeze (more Mediterranean than Latin though).

Trio's third album was recorded at the ArteSuono studio in Italy, known by series recordings for ECM, so album's final sound is a combination of all above mentioned factors: catchy,warm,but with Nordic/ECM aerial feel, polished on Italian manner,but with some deep bass fragments, full of dreamy Fazioli grand piano music.

Strong contemporary jazz album by its sound could be placed somewhere in between of more energetic Hiromi's music and Leszek Mozdzer/Lars Danielsson beautiful Chopin/Pasadoble tunes.