Results for "Erik Soderlind"

Erik Soderlind

Live Encounter

Label: Ubuntu Music
Released: 2019
Track listing: Encounter; Naima; Incazzato; Still; Second Impressions; Heartaches; Eddie Harris.

Frank Zappa's Jazz Legacy Refuses to Die, Part 2

by Ludovico Granvassu
December 26, 2018

This week we continue the retrospective dedicated to Frank Zappa's complex relationship with jazz, through a mix of the jazzier compositions performed by Zappa himself and countless tributes to his music paid by jazz musicians. As Frank Zappa loved to say, quoting Edgard Varèse, “the present day composer refuses to die" and the ...

Erik Soderlind: Happening

by Chris Mosey
November 4, 2011

The sounds on Happening hark back nearly two decades before its creator, Swedish guitarist Erik Söderlind was born--in 1981. They stem from the mid-1960s, when Jimmy Smith revolutionized the way the Hammond B3 electric organ was played and created a new genre of hard bop featuring the Hammond with guitar as second instrument. ...

Twist For Jimmy Smith

By Erik Soderlind

Label: Prophone Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Wives and Lovers; Close Your Eyes; Polka Dots and Moonbeams; Mr C; Twist for Jimmy Smith; The Shadow of Your Smile; Broadway; Willow Weep for Me; Blues for Pat Martino; Flamman; The Nearness of You.

Erik Soderlind: Twist For Jimmy Smith

by Chris Mosey
May 13, 2009

Erik Söderlind is a young man in no particular hurry. Not yet 30, he plays jazz guitar with supreme assurance, and on his debut album Twist For Jimmy Smith, he has put together a lovely, leisurely paced, always swinging collection of standards and originals that deserves worldwide recognition. Of course, he's unlikely to get it. We ...