Aaron Mandelmann – bass
Ebba Dankel / Sven Erik Lundeqvist – piano
Pontus Häggblom – drums

The jam session is a popular late-night element of the jazz festival that has popped up in various locations around Ystad over the years. And this year is something special – the newest venue for the festival jam sessions is Sweden’s oldest hotel, Hotel Continental du Sud.

The house band this year is the Aaron Mandelman Trio, led by bassist and composer Aaron Mandelmann, a Malmo-based musician, who has toured widely in Scandinavia and Europe. Pianist for the Wednesday session is Ebba Dankel, an award-winning pianist who is currently studying at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. For the second and third sessions, Sven Erik Lundeqvist, who led the festival’s jam session so succesfully for many years, returns at the keyboard. Providing the pulse for all three sessions is drummer, Pontus Häggblom.