Tingvall Trio

The Tingvall Trio are audience favorites, and for good reason. Their albums are titled “Birds,” “Skagerrak,” and their latest, “PAX”—meaning peace. The album covers feature forests shrouded in fog and a road in the morning mist. Naturalness, idyll, peace: this seasoned trio embodies everything that music can and should be. At the center are three distinctive personalities: Omar Rodriguez Calvo, arguably the most melodic bassist in the jazz world; pianist Martin Tingvall, with his crystalline touch; and drummer Jürgen Spiegel, whose virtuosity lies above all in his ability to listen. Three vertices of an equilateral triangle.

For over twenty years, they have been refining their shared language: Swedish, Cuban, German—and yet a single language. Multiple recipients of the Echo Jazz Award, they are at home in Europe’s great concert halls, yet have never lost the chamber-music character of their early days. “PAX,” released in August 2025, is more restrained than its predecessors and, at the same time, more dense. Rodriguez Calvo’s bass no longer functions merely as a foundation but as a second melodic voice. Anyone familiar with the trio knows: here, complexity unfolds without any showy gestures. Those who don’t know them have picked a good day to change that.