{{short description|Swedish bassist and composer (born 1957)}} {{BLP sources|date=April 2017}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Anders Jormin | image = Anders Jormin (214343).jpg | caption = Jormin with Sinikka Langeland at Cosmopolite, Oslo 2016 | birth_name = Anders Bertil Michael Jormin | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1957|9|7|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Jönköping]], Sweden | genre = Jazz | occupation = Musician | instrument = Double bass | years_active = | label = | associated_acts = [[Charles Lloyd (jazz musician)|Charles Lloyd]], [[Bobo Stenson]], [[Tomasz Stańko]] }}
'''Anders Bertil Michael Jormin''' (born 7 September 1957) is a Swedish bassist and composer.<ref>[http://www.jazz.com/encyclopedia/jormin-anders Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians: Anders Jormin] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150213133838/http://www.jazz.com/encyclopedia/jormin-anders |date=February 13, 2015 }} access November 14, 2011</ref>
Jormin established a musical partnership with [[Bobo Stenson]] in the mid-1980s which led to international recognition playing with [[Charles Lloyd (jazz musician)|Charles Lloyd]], in the early 1990s. In the late 1990s he also performed regularly with Polish trumpeter [[Tomasz Stańko]].
Jorman has played and toured internationally with many musicians including [[Elvin Jones]], [[Don Cherry (jazz)|Don Cherry]], [[Lee Konitz]], [[Joe Henderson]], [[Paul Motian]], [[Rita Marcotulli]], [[Norma Winstone]], [[Mike Mainieri]], [[Mats Gustafsson]], [[Albert Mangelsdorff]], [[Dino Saluzzi]], [[Marilyn Crispell]], and [[Kenny Wheeler]].
Anders Jormin also teaches double bass and improvisation and holds a Professorial post at the Academy of Music and Drama at [[University of Gothenburg]] since 2002. In 1995 he undertook a visiting professorship at the [[Sibelius Academy]] in Helsinki. The same appointed him Doctor honores causa (honorary doctorate) in 2003.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jazz.com/encyclopedia/jormin-anders |title=Profile Jormin, Anders |publisher=Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians jazz.com |accessdate=29 January 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150213133838/http://www.jazz.com/encyclopedia/jormin-anders |archivedate=13 February 2015 }}</ref>
==Background== Anders Jormin grew up in a musical family with a father who was a professional pop musician and learned to perform jazz standards at an early age, he studied classical music on piano and bass at the University of Gothenburg and has a long-standing appreciation of folk music and combines classical music with folk and jazz in his compositional approach.<ref>Kelman, J. [https://www.allaboutjazz.com/anders-jormin-touching-the-heart-and-spirit-anders-jormin-by-john-kelman Anders Jormin: Touching the Heart and Spirit], ''[[All About Jazz]]'', October 4, 2004</ref> Anders Jormin’s brother is the percussionist and pianist Christian Jormin.
==Awards and honors== Jormin has received the Jan Johansson Scholarship (1992), Jazz Kannan (1994), and a Swedish Grammy for Best Jazz Album with the Bobo Stenson Trio, ''[[Reflections (Bobo Stenson album)|Reflections]]'' (1996). In November 2010 he was awarded the Swedish Royal Music Academy Jazz Prize.
==Discography== [[File:Berg-Kolve-Jormin-Vossajazz2016.jpg|600px|thumb|Jormin, [[Ivar Kolve]] and [[Espen Berg (musician)|Espen Berg]] <br/>with [[Kåre Kolve]]'s Interactions at [[Vossajazz]] 2016.]]
===As leader=== * ''Nordic Lights'' (Dragon, 1984) * ''Eight Pieces'' (Dragon) * ''Alone'' (Dragon, 1991) * ''Jord'' (Dragon, 1995) * ''Once'' (Dragon) * ''Silvae'' (Dragon, 1998) * ''[[Xieyi (album)|Xieyi]]'' (ECM, 2001) * ''[[In Winds, In Light]]'' (ECM, 2003) * ''Aviaja'' (Footprint, 2005) * ''Songs in Meantone'' (Footprint, 2011) * ''[[Ad Lucem]]'' (ECM, 2012) * ''Provenance'' (Footprint, 2013) * ''Between Always and Never'' (Swedish Society Discofil, 2014) * ''[[Trees of Light]]'' with [[Lena Willemark]] and Karin Nakagawa (ECM, 2015)
===As sideman=== '''With [[Don Cherry (jazz)|Don Cherry]]''' *''[[Dona Nostra]]'' (ECM, 1994) '''With [[Marilyn Crispell]]''' *''[[Spring Tour (album)|Spring Tour]]'' (Alice Musik Produktion, 1995) '''With [[Mark Feldman]]''' *''[[What Exit]]'' (ECM, 2006) '''With [[Charles Lloyd (jazz musician)|Charles Lloyd]]''' *''[[Notes from Big Sur]]'' (ECM, 1992) *''[[The Call (Charles Lloyd album)|The Call]]'' (ECM, 1993) *''[[All My Relations (album)|All My Relations]]'' (ECM, 1994) *''[[Canto (Charles Lloyd album)|Canto]]'' (ECM, 1996) '''With [[Tomasz Stańko]]''' *''[[Matka Joanna]]'' (ECM, 1994) *''[[Leosia (album)|Leosia]]'' (ECM, 1996) *''[[From the Green Hill]]'' (ECM, 1998) '''With [[Bobo Stenson]]''' *''Very Early'' (Dragon) *''[[Reflections (Bobo Stenson album)|Reflections]]'' (ECM, 1993) *''[[War Orphans]]'' (ECM, 1997) *''[[Serenity (Bobo Stenson album)|Serenity]]'' (ECM, 1999) *''[[Goodbye (Bobo Stenson album)|Goodbye]]'' (ECM, 2004) *''[[Cantando (Bobo Stenson album)|Cantando]]'' (ECM, 2007) *''[[Indicum (album)|Indicum]]'' (ECM, 2011) *''[[Contra la Indecisión]]'' (ECM, 2018) '''With [[Kenny Wheeler]]'''
* [https://www.discogs.com/release/1800754-Kenny-Wheeler-It-Takes-Two It Takes Two !] (C.A.M. Jazz – CAMJ 7786-2, 2006)
==References== {{Commons category}} {{reflist}}
==External links== *[http://www.xgac.se/jormin/ Anders Jormin Homepage] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20160303234037/http://www.jazzdimensions.de/interviews/the_world/2012/anders_jormin.html Anders Jormin - "Sound is an image starting inside"], Jazzdimensions Interview 2012
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