I am Samuel, a Swedish guitar player living in Copenhagen, Denmark. I play music with hints of jazz, country, metal, noise and blooming cherry trees. When not doing concerts, recordings or compose music, I teach musical interplay and improvisation at various schools in Sweden. I’m also a proud receiver of the “Jazz in Sweden” award 2010. An excerpt from the justification:
“Samuel holds an utterly personal attitude towards the jazz tradition by putting his expression in focus. With jazz as discourse and practice, Samuel lets his influences and fancies run wild and free, seemingly without restraint; with unexpected and exciting results as consequence – however always very focused and very, very much Samuel.”
Jazz in Sweden is an award that Caprice Records and Concerts Sweden have been giving annually since 1972, to a young Swedish musician or group that gets to represent Swedish jazz, abroad as well as in Sweden.
“Samuel Hällkvist represents something new in jazz and in music in general”
Lennart Götesson/Dalademokraten
“Samuel Hällkvist, has a unique way of bending and twisting notes”
Bruce Lee Gallanter/Downtown Music Gallery
“…he opens with a mean and distorted guitar solo, making a meditative moment in the middle of the cd possible this way. Also on other moments he adds interesting twists.”
Frans de Waard/Vital Weekly