snobb Swedish trumpeter Magnus Broo is well known for being a member of the Nordic all-stars band Atomic, and the avant-garde/nu jazz mixing fashionable ensemble Angles. His regular collaborations with Ken Vandermark and Mats Gustafson are another part of his musical story, but beside of all this, he has been leading his own quartet for years!

Known for his explosive, angular and sometimes quite out and quirky collaborative works, one can expect to find similar music on his solo recordings, but his quartet's music is different.

'Painbody' is obviously influenced by Don Cherry's early works, the opening cut "Africa" and the closer "Don Don" both are direct road signs to it. It is a bit unusual, but the whole album is very light, relaxed and is more similar to Cherry and Coleman's music than Atomic's twisted sound attacks.

Stylistically Magnus varies between avant-garde from the early 70s, post bop and even some bop. The music is very optimistic, sunny and (with few exemptions) sounds as if it was recorded forty years ago. I believe Magnus solo releases are his return to his roots, music for fans beyond his participation in better known and more popular projects, but this album is of a high quality and really far from just a free time side-project. Possibly you wouldn't find here a lot of original ideas or experimentation, but everyone with a love for the "golden age in avant-garde jazz" will enjoy this music for sure.