Ewan Svensson, since more than 30 years considered by many to be one of Sweden´s foremost and interesting jazz guitarists, has been both a member and leader of a succession of many jazz groups since the end of the 70´s. Except for jazz he has played in almost every musical genre. He has played the guitar since the age of 10 and at the age og 12 he got his first electric guitar. At that time he began playing in different pop&rock, and later, bluesbands as well as in proffesional dance-bands for some years. From being self-taught he applied for Music Conservatory in 1975 where he studied both classical and afro-american music for 4 years. At that time his interest for jazzmusic grew stronger and he also began writing original compositions. He graduated as pedagogue of jazzimprovisation as well as music teacher.

He has played, and still does, as sideman in a raw of groups but mainly he has concentrated on his own music and projects. In 1983 he formed his first group under his own name. It started out as a trio but grew to a quartet - Ewan Svensson Quartet which since then has existed in different constellations, toured regularly and made several records which have all been well received.
In 1987 it was time to put together a new trio, then for the purpose of accompanying the world-famous Polish saxophonist Zbigniew Namyslowski for a tour in Sweden. That collaboration continued for several years with tours to clubs, festivals and radio and TV engagements in different parts of Europe.

In 1989 The Falkenberg Jazz Festival was founded and ever since then Ewan has been the artistic director of the festival that this year celebrates 30 years!
In 1995 Ewan started a Jazzcourse and every summer since then he teach one week jazzimprovisation together with some of the best jazzmusicians in Sweden.

Records with ES-compositions:
FIRST FLIGHT(Crystal Eagle 1989),
STRING (String guitarduo 1990)
FLYING CARPET (Ulf Andersson Band 1998)
Since 1991 he has released 14 CDs with his own groups and mainly his own original compositions:
1991 PRESENT DIRECTIONS -Dragon Rec.
(Ewan Svensson Trio) w/ Palle Danielsson-bass, Magnus Gran-dr.
1993 REFLECTIONS - Dragon Rec.
(Ewan Svensson Quartet) w/ Ove Ingemarsson-tenorsax, Matz Nilsson-bass, Magnus Gran-dr.
1995 NEXT STEP - Dragon Rec. (Ewan Svensson Quartet)
1996 STREAMS - Dragon Rec. (Ewan Svensson Trio) w/ Yasuhito Mori-bass, Magnus Gran-dr.
2000 MEETING - Dragon Rec. (ESQ & Ginestra String Quartet)
2001 FIGURES - Dragon Rec. (Ewan Svensson Trio)
2004 JUST LIVE TO TELL THE TALE - Spice of Life (Ewan Svensson New Quartet )
w/ Antoine Herve - piano, Y. Mori - bass, M. Gran - dr.
2005 LIGHT&SHADE - Nocturne (Ewan Svensson Quartet feat. vocalist Linda Pettersson)
2009 THE SUNFLOWER - ESM Rec (Hannah & Acoustic 3)
w/ Hannah Svensson - voc. Mattias Grönroos - bass, Tommy Holmgren - dr.
2010 MOMENTS PASSED - Dragon Rec. (Ewan Svensson Trio plays standards)
2010 SUNRISE ON THE MOON - Dragon Rec.
(Ewan Svensson Trio with guests Linda Pettersson - vocal and Antoine Herve´- piano.)
2012 SOME FAVORITE THINGS - Dragon Rec. (Two Generations, Ewan & Hannah Svensson)
2015 FOR YOU - Dragon Rec (Two Generations)
2017 SOMETIME AGO - ESM Rec (Ewan Svensson solo)

ES has performed mostly in Europe but also in Japan, Brasil and USA. He has played with the most prominent
Swedish jazz musicians as well as international artists like:
Art Farmer, Bob Berg, Clark Terry, Scott Hamilton, Johnny Griffin, Ken Peplowski, Toots Thielemans, toured with Kenny Wheeler, Maria Schneider, Georgie Fame a.o.
In 1999 he was asked to write and arrange music for his quartet and a classical string-quartet which resulted in the cross-over project called MEETING with tours, Radio&TV and partially a new audience.

At the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm Ewan Svensson received the pedagog-award for 2003 from His Majesty the King. For "important work within the music pedagogue area ". The individual motivation was: "for Ewan´s remarkable work with teaching improvisation where his students developes both personally and within the group, parallell. Ewan is also, through his own professional work as a jazzmusician, a great source of inspiration for his students".

In 2004 it was 20 years since the first edition of ESQ and he put together a new quartet with the same setting, guitar-piano-bass-drums feat. the great French pianist Antoine Herve. The CD JUST LIVE TO TELL THE TALE was recorded for the Japanese label "Spice of Life" and was released in Japan in March 2005.
In January 2005 another CD was recorded with ESQ and Linda Pettersson. The music is all ES-originals with lyrics by Dave Castle. It is called LIGHT&SHADE and the group performed a lot in Sweden as well as France and also had a great succes in Japan in 2006.

In 2007 ES received 2 different awards. In July a stipendium from the biggest folk-song-festival in Sweden, "Hwitan´s Visfestival" and in December he received Falkenberg City Cultural-prize for 2007.

From 2007 and forward Ewan has a.o. been playing a lot with his daughter Hannah, vocalist, in a band called Acoustic 3. They released the cd The Sunflower in 2009 and together they did 60-70 concerts/year.
In 2011 They started the duo Two Generations and they have, sofar, released the records Some Favorite Things
(2012) and For You (2015)

2013-14 Ewan play as a sideman in Janne "Loffe" Carlsson & Friends. He also started Ulf Andersson New Quartet together with saxophonist Ulf Andersson.
Another project started in the summer 2015 and is a real "dreamteam" called
Ewan Svensson Project feat. Diana Torto, (It)- John Taylor (UK)- Mads Vinding (DK)- Anders Kjellberg (S).

In 2016 he played a.o. with the great Randy Brecker at Falkenberg Jazz Festival.
2017 released his soloalbum Sometime Ago that got great rewievs. A.o. tour in Italy with the Italian singer Elisa Marangon Band. He also toured w/ Two Generations a tribute to Ella F & Joe Pass.
2018 tours in Sweden, Denmark. London Jazz Festival a.o. Writing arrangements on original tunes for West Coast big band, Gothenburg

Ewan Svensson, since more than 30 years considered by many to be one of Sweden´s foremost and interesting jazz guitarists, has been both a member and leader of a succession of many jazz groups since the end of the 70´s. Except for jazz he has played in almost every musical genre. He has played the guitar since the age of 10 and at the age og 12 he got his first electric guitar. At that time he began playing in different pop&rock, and later, bluesbands as well as in proffesional dance-bands for some years. From being self-taught he applied for Music Conservatory in 1975 where he studied both classical and afro-american music for 4 years. At that time his interest for jazzmusic grew stronger and he also began writing original compositions. He graduated as pedagogue of jazzimprovisation as well as music teacher.

He has played, and still does, as sideman in a raw of groups but mainly he has concentrated on his own music and projects. In 1983 he formed his first group under his own name. It started out as a trio but grew to a quartet - Ewan Svensson Quartet which since then has existed in different constellations, toured regularly and made several records which have all been well received.

In 1987 it was time to put together a new trio, then for the purpose of accompanying the world-famous Polish saxophonist Zbigniew Namyslowski for a tour in Sweden. That collaboration continued for several years with tours to clubs, festivals and radio and TV engagements in different parts of Europe.

In 1989 The Falkenberg Jazz Festival was founded and ever since then Ewan has been the artistic director of the festival.

Records with ES-compositions:
FIRST FLIGHT(Crystal Eagle 1989),
STRING (String guitarduo 1990)
FLYING CARPET (Ulf Andersson Band 1998)
Since 1991 he has released 13 CDs with his own groups and mainly his own original compositions:
1991 PRESENT DIRECTIONS (Ewan Svensson Trio) w/ Palle Danielsson-bass, Magnus Gran-dr.
1993 REFLECTIONS (Ewan Svensson Quartet) w/ Ove Ingemarsson-tenorsax, Matz Nilsson-bass, Magnus Gran-dr.
1995 NEXT STEP (Ewan Svensson Quartet)
1996 STREAMS (Ewan Svensson Trio) w/ Yasuhito Mori-bass, Magnus Gran-dr.
2000 MEETING (ESQ & Ginestra String Quartet)
2001 FIGURES (Ewan Svensson Trio)
2004 JUST LIVE TO TELL THE TALE (Ewan Svensson New Quartet ) w/ Antoine Herve - piano, Y. Mori - bass, M. Gran - dr.
2005 LIGHT&SHADE (Ewan Svensson Quartet feat. vocalist Linda Pettersson)
2009 THE SUNFLOWER (Hannah & Acoustic 3) w/ Hannah Svensson - voc. Mattias Grönroos - bass, Tommy Holmgren - dr.
2010 MOMENTS PASSED ( Ewan Svensson Trio plays standards)
2010 SUNRISE ON THE MOON ( Ewan Svensson Trio with guests Linda Pettersson - vocal and Antoine Herve´- piano.)
2012 SOME FAVORITE THINGS (Two Generations, Ewan & Hannah Svensson)
2015 FOR YOU (Two Generations, Ewan & Hannah Svensson)

ES has performed mostly in Europe but also in Japan, Brasil and USA. He has played with the most prominent Swedish jazz musicians as well as international artists like:
Art Farmer, Bob Berg, Randy Brecker, Clark Terry, Scott Hamilton, Johnny Griffin, Ken Peplowski, Toots Thielemans, toured with Kenny Wheeler, Maria Schneider, Georgie Fame a.o.
In 1999 he was asked to write and arrange music for his quartet and a classical string-quartet which resulted in the cross-over project called MEETING with tours, Radio&TV and partially a new audience.
At the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm Ewan Svensson received the pedagog-award for 2003 from His Majesty the King. For "important work within the music pedagogue area ". The individual motivation was: "for Ewan´s remarkable work with teaching improvisation where his students developes both personally and within the group, parallell. Ewan is also, through his own professional work as a jazzmusician, a great source of inspiration for his students".
In 2004 it was 20 years since the first edition of ESQ and he put together a new quartet with the same setting, guitar-piano-bass-drums feat. the great French pianist Antoine Herve. The CD JUST LIVE TO TELL THE TALE was recorded for the Japanese label "Spice of Life" and was released in Japan in March 2005.

In January 2005 another CD was recorded with ESQ and Linda Pettersson. The music is all ES-originals with lyrics by Dave Castle. It is called LIGHT&SHADE and the group performed a lot in Sweden as well as France and also had a great succes in Japan in 2006.
In 2007 ES received 2 different awards. In July a stipendium from the biggest folk-song-festival in Sweden, "Hwitan´s Visfestival" and in December he received Falkenberg City cultural-prize for 2007.
From 2007 to 2011. Ewan has a.o. been playing a lot with his daughter Hannah, vocalist, in a band called Acoustic 3. They released the cd The Sunflower in 2009 and together they did 60-70 concerts/year.
In 2011 They started the duo Two Generations and the record Some Favorite Things was released in 2012.

2013-14 Ewan play as a sideman in Janne "Loffe" Carlsson & Friends. He also started Ulf Andersson New Quartet together with saxophonist Ulf Andersson.

A new project took place in the summer 2015 and was a real "dreamteam" called
Ewan Svensson Project feat. Diana Torto - John Taylor - Mads Vinding - Anders Kjellberg. Just two weeks before the first concert the outstanding pianist John Taylor passed away, very tragic but the Italian pianist Stefano Battaglia replaced him so the concerts could be done.

In fall 2015 a new album "For You" w/ Two Generations was released.

2016 cont. with tours a.o. with a project by Hannah Svensson with Mattias Svensson-bass and Alvin Queen on drums.
Performed with Randy Brecker on Falkenberg Jazz Festival. Concerts with Georgie Fame, Lianne Carrol a.o.

2017 A new soloCD "Sometime Ago" with standard-tunes was released in spring 2017. Italian tour w/ Elisa Marangon, Roberto Olzer a.o.