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Zethson, Alex / Johan Jutterstrom: It Could / If I [VINYL] (thanatosis produktion / Astral Spirits)

The first duo album from Stockholm's long-standing duo of Johan Jutterström and Alex Zethson, reimagining songs from jazz standards to Leonard Cohen and the Pet Shop Boys as deconstructed etudes and expressive palimpsests, where meaning emerges through reinterpretation, erasure, and the intimate process of performance and transformation.
 

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Alexander Zethson-piano

Johan Jutterstrom-saxophone

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UPC: 7320470273029

Label: thanatosis produktion / Astral Spirits
Catalog ID: THT39/ AS246
Squidco Product Code: 36259

Format: LP
Condition: New
Released: 2025
Country: Sweden
Packaging: LP
Recorded at Hugoteatern, Stockholm University of the Arts, The University College of Opera, on September 2nd, 2023. by Goran Stegborn.
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"Alexander Zethson has completed the bachelor performance programme in jazz at KMH and is currently studying at the second year of the master's programme with Lisa Ullén as his primary instrument teacher.

Alexander has participated in extensive concert and tour activities and has participated in fifteen record productions. The ensembles include:

• Niklas Barnö's free jazz group Je Suis!• A number of tours in Europe with Martin Küchen's group Angles 9

Alexander is also active as arranger and pianist in collaboration with the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, a cooperation which began in 2011. Zethson, Sofia Jernberg and Lene Grenager has arranged music from Hallingdal and Røros performed by the TJO with Zethson, Jernberg and violinist/Hardanger fiddler Olav Luksengård Mjelva."

-KMH Royal College of Music in Stockholm (https://www.kmh.se/alexander-zethson-received-the-rosenborg-gehrmans-scholarship)
10/8/2025

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Johan Jutterström is a Swedish woodwind player, known for the groups Belle, Crime Scenes, J/L Duo, and STHLM Svaga.

-Discogs, Johan Jutterstr website (http://johanjutterstrom.weebly.com/cv.html)
10/8/2025

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