Jazz Articles about Fredrik Lundin

Fredrik Lundin Overdrive: Choose Your Boots

by Jack Bowers
July 1, 2002

Fredrik Lundin’s Choose Your Boots is best described as “rock–Jazz,” generally well–played but encumbered along the way by musically prefabricated special effects and funky rhythms that lend the enterprise a “retro–’70s” ambiance. What it lacks is a clear center of gravity or personality, if you will, that would serve to tie its various ingredients together. Lundin wrote and arranged everything (co–wrote “Agent Ericsson’s Secret Identity” with pianist Jacob Karlzon), so the album represents his musical vision, which, if nothing else, ...