Peter Asplund Jazz Quartet June 16, 2007

The international face of jazz will be presented in a concert with the acclaimed Peter Asplund Quartet on Saturday, June 16 at 7:30 p.m. at the Williamsburg Library Theatre. Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for students with ID and free for those under 16. Tickets can be purchased at the Williamsburg Library, 515 Scotland Street, two blocks north of Merchants Square, or by calling (757) 259-4070. This is another in the library's Dewey Decibel Concert series.

The Peter Asplund Quartet is a dynamic and closely united group who represent some of the strongest voices to be found on the Scandinavian jazz scene today. "Asplund is a splendid trumpeter, one of Europe's finest, and his companions are world-class," says the website AllAboutJazz.com. Many Swedish critics picked his quartet's recent album, "Lochiel's Warning," as the best jazz album of the year. A music critic for Sweden's biggest daily newspaper wrote that the album is "an instant classic" and one of the best Swedish jazz albums of all times.
The album includes his original compositions and jazz standards such as "In A Sentimental Mood" by Duke Ellington, Rodgers' and Hart's "Falling In Love With Love" and Gershwin's "Summertime."

Peter Asplund, who is also a director of curriculum at the Stockholm Royal College of Music, has played in many famous Swedish jazz groups and numerous Swedish pop groups as well. Peter Asplund's trumpet playing has a melancholy touch that in some ways is a heritage of many of the Swedish jazz musicians from the '60s and '70s - such as the jazz pianist Jan Johansson.

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