En oförglömlig eftermiddag i Katalins Pub när den fantastiske trumpetaren Mårten Lundgren gästar, sjunger och svänger med sin trumpet i ett urval av sina bästa Jazzlåtar. Här tillsammans i ett tight sväng. Denna gång tillsammans med en speciellt inbjuden gäst – den skicklige Johan Alenius som svänger med sina saxar – Ambjörn Hugardt på bas – Jesper Sjökvist vibrafon och Håkan Jansson på trummor. Frivillig orkesterpeng men stöd gärna våra musiker på Swish 0703281850. Hjärtligt välkomna att njuta god stämning och spelglädje. /Trumåkan
Mårten Lundgren is a jazz-trumpetplayer and arranger mainly working in the Copenhagen/Malmö-area and can be heard in various constellations, from bigbands to small groups. Significant for his trumpetplaying is his ability to keep himself honest towards the music and also his ability to adapt his playing to the various demands he´s faced to.
Mårten was born in 1969 in the town Södertälje wich is situated about 30 km south of Stockholm.
He began playing the trumpet at the age of 9 and started studying at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm 1990 where he studied for trumpetplayers as Ulf Adåker, Gustavo Bergalli and Urban Eriksson. 1991 he took one year off to do his military service in a horseback-mounted military musicband, “Livgardets Dragontrumpetarkår”.
As early as during his time at the Academy, Mårten began to play proffessionally, and in 1992 he became a member of “Mats Holmquist Stora Stygga” and after graduating from the Academy he worked as a musician in Stockholm, playing with bands as “Stora Stygga”, “Stockholm Jazz Orchestra”, “Gugge Hedrenius Big Blues Band”, “Radiojazzgruppen”, “Ulf Andersson Band”, “Hector Bingert Latin Lover Big Band”, etc
In 1997 Mårten joined “The Ronnie Gardiner Septet” and could each summer until the summer of 2000 be heard at the Tivoli “Gröna Lund”. In 1997 Mårten substituted for the first time with Bohuslän Big Band, and played with them a lot for a period of 10 years.
In august 1999 Mårten moved to Copenhagen and managed in short time to establish himself on the jazzscene there.
Allready in november 1999 he played with “Niels-Jørgen Steen A-team” for the first time and shortly after Mårten managed to become a member of “The Tivoli Big Band” and can every summer be heard in the Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen.
In Denmark Mårten has also played with bands as “Bob Rockwell Quintet”, “The Danish Radio Big Band”, “The Orchestra”, etc….
In 2001 Mårten moved to Malmö, where he lives today. The same year he got the oppotunity to tour with the great swedish jazzmusician Arne Domnerus.
In 2003 the album “Travellin´” was released with Mårten as a leader.
In 2006/2007 Mårten studied arranging at the Academy of Music in Malmö for arranger Sten Ingelf.
Today Mårten is playing with in different constellations in the Malmö/Copenhagen-area.
Arrangör: Jansson Communication
