To be Benny again with ABBA the Show. I know this confuses the people who knows me as a jazz saxophonist and folk clarinetist but I am a musician who wears many hats 🙂 Except Benny doesn’t wear a hat. And I’m not even wearing a wig since my hair is cut just the right length… Tour schedule on the right and a promo video for he show below.
Maria McAteer – Her Night At Noon
The album is finally here! After 3 years of recording, mixing, mastering and cover designing the album has now been released through my label DartBird music. Both Maria and I are very proud! Get your downloadable copy below. I will set up a store for the physical CD’s as well but it might take a while. If you are interested in that send me an email at info@dartbirdmusic.com
Review of “My Friend Lester”
Here’s a fantastic review of My Friend Lester by Hope Wisechild for Brighton & Hove Free Press.
New dates and venue for My Friend Lester
Maria’s play “My Friend Lester” was a great success when we did it at the Jive Monkey in August. I am happy to tell you that we will perform it again, this time at the distinguished Marlborough Theatre. Get your tickets for either October 26 or 27! £8 Advance and £10 on the door.
My Friend Lester
My wonderful wife got all creative when we got back from our honeymoon and wrote an amazing play about the music and relationship between Billie Holiday and Lester Young. She’s Billie and I’m going to play Lester! It’s probably the first time the world sees a Swedish, bearded Lester Young. It has been so interesting doing the research for this. I have dived deep into his music and I feel like it has made my own jazz playing better. What a great man!
The show has so far only one performance, 3 August at the Jive Monkey in Brighton. Get your tickets here!
Music Transcription Service
I just added a new item at the top menu – Music Trancription Service. If you need sheet music of any kind, of any song, transposed into any key feel free to contact me. I’ve written hundreds of arrangements from lead sheets to big band and everything in between.
FishBulb – Björn Dahlberg Quartet live at the Brighton Blue Note
Here’s my tune FishBulb from the gig yesterday. Awesome playing by my friends I have to say!
Björn Dahlberg Quartet at the Brighton Blue Note
I’m super excited! Tonight I will be playing all my saxophones and clarinets at the Brighton Blue Note together with Paul Richards – Guitar, Jim Whyte – drums and Terry Pack – bass. Since I moved to the UK I haven’t really found an outlet for this material. The jazz I play have mostly been swing with the Magic Numbers and others and standards at the jam sessions. I love doing that and it’s been great exploring the earlier styles but to be able to play some of my own favourite compositions will be something extra. We will play several tunes from my old project Boogaloo B – A Technicolor soundtrack of twist and New Orleans funk and more. It’s 11pm-1am (jazz hours!) underneath the Greenhouse effect, 63 Church Rd, Hove, East Sussex, BN3 2BD.
Read more about it at Paul Richard’s site You can hear some of the music at my old MySpace site
“Brighton Boy” released!
Finally Maria McAteer’s debut single “Brighton Boy” is here! I’m especially proud since I wrote the music and plays a bunch of instruments on the track. Maria of course wrote the beautiful lyrics and sings with her gorgeous voice. Here is the video.
During a limited time you can get the single for free at mariamcateer.com
Made Up at Soho Theatre
I’m doing such an amazing show at the Soho Theatre at the moment. It’s an improvised play by three actors who call themselves Cartoon De Salvo and a four-piece band called the Adventurists. The title is given by the audience and then we as a band improvise the score and the actors improvise the story. It’s complete magic. You can book tickets here and read a great review here.
