Alabaster Deplume: Spiritual jazz adventure

Poet, saxophonist and improviser. Alabaster DePlume creates music that unfolds in the moment. His compositions are built on circular melodies and glowing saxophone lines, often played by musicians who haven’t rehearsed. His latest record, A blade because a blade is whole, was described by Dagens Nyheter as “tender folk jazz that heals the soul.” His music shifts between comfort and protest, with words that encourage, confront and open up