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Snake City North

Label: Moserobie
Released: 2005
Track listing: Snake City East

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Jonas Kullhammar: Snake City North

Read "Snake City North" reviewed by Michael McCaw


There is nothing quite like the muscular sound of a big band that is busting at the seams with energy while disposing of the all-too-common brassy clichés of big band recordings. Fronted by tenor saxophonist Jonas Kullhammar and his quartet with pianist Torbjörn Gulz, acoustic bassist Torbjörn Zetterberg, and drummer Jonas Holgersson, the Norrbotten Big Band ...

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Jonas Kullhammar Quartet/Norrbotten Big Band: Snake City North

Read "Snake City North" reviewed by Jack Bowers


It's been a while since we've heard from Sweden's intrepid Norrbotten Big Band from up near the Arctic Circle. On that last occasion (Future North, Double-Time, 1998), the NBB was led by American trumpeter Tim Hagans; this time, it is in the company of Swedish tenor saxophonist Jonas Kullhammar's impressive quartet. The quartet-within-a-band format is a ...

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Jonas Kullhammar: Snake City North

Read "Snake City North" reviewed by Clifford Allen


Where American jazz culture left off, Europe appears to have picked up some of the slack in a longstanding tradition of big bands. Though they're not always more economically viable on the other side of the pond, their mark on post-bebop jazz has nevertheless been undeniable. In addition to the freer organizations like Globe Unity, the ...


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