MATHIAS SANDBERG - THE CAPTAIN

He has been called "one of Finland's best kept secrets", the highly acclaimed guitarist and composer Mathias Sandberg is one of the hardest working jazz musicians in the country. He has studied at Manhattan School of Music in New York and Berklee College of Music in Boston and worked with artists such as Georg Riedel, Pierre Swärd, Peter Asplund, Nick Mancini, Jukka Eskola, Teppo Mäkynen and Manuel Dunkel. Sandberg plays a hundred or so concerts a year and has toured both Europe and the United States.

”This is an excellent album... swings from start to finish” - Jazz Journal, UK

”Superb album... such a fresh take on the genre” Rochester City News, USA

Mathias Sandberg - Chicken Special (YouTube)


Mathias Sandberg's debut solo album The Doctor received both huge critical review and airplay on jazz radio stations in Europe, United States, South America, Asia and Australia. Sandberg's highly anticipated new trio album The Captain was released in 2023, followed by a 60-date nationwide tour. The album showcases his unique blend of hard swingin', groovy and soulful jazz with strong melodic writing, rhythmically playful improvisation and a delightful, almost telepathic interplay between the three.

Jan Sedlák is a bassist, composer and band-leader from the Czech Republic based in Aalborg (DK). Playing original music with projects such as The Collective Abroad, Eyal Lovett Trio, Pasaravičiene/Sedlák and Mathias Sandberg Trio, Jan is frequently performing alongside some of the best musicians in Europe.

Hans Kristian Knold is a hard-swinging drummer and a rising star on the Danish jazz scene who shared the stage and released music with many prominent musicians such as Fredrik Lundin, Martin Schack, Thomas Fryland, Christina Dahl and Fredrik Ljungkvist. In 2023, Knold graduated from the prestigious Nordic Master in Jazz program (Aarhus/Stockholm/Helsinki).