Stockholm-based Italian bassist/composer Ilaria Capalbo is equally at ease building hard-swinging lines and improvising on the whole sound-spectrum of the instrument. Aside from leading her own band she is one of the co-leaders of critically acclaimed Italian trio KÓSMOS, bass player in Fredrik Nordström’s DOLORES and a member of Blue Note/Verve pianist Chihiro Yamanaka’s European Trio. She has composed music on commission for Nobel Museum and NobelCreations, contemporary Swedish dance company Cullberg Balletten and festival Explorations of Now.

• Ilaria Capalbo: bass/compositions
• Thomas Backman: alto sax/clarinets
• Fredrik Nordström: tenor/baritone sax/flute
• Andreas Hourdakis: gitarr
• Fredrik Rundqvist: trummor

Photo: Massimo DeDominicis