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Johannesson, Schultz and Berglund, featuring Jacob Karlzon: Cause And Effect

Read "Cause And Effect" reviewed by Chris Mosey

by Chris Mosey
February 24, 2013

Events from a momentous three-year musical period greatly influenced this album: in 1967 the death of John Coltrane; the release, two years later, of In A Silent Way (Columbia, 1969) by his former boss, trumpeter Miles Davis; and the demise of rock icon Jimi Hendrix in 1970. The line-up is Max Schultz, one of Sweden's best guitarists, former Herbie Hancock protégé Peter Johannesson (drums), the very gifted pianist Jacob Karlzon, and bassist Dan Berglund, formerly a mainstay ...

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Album Review

Johannesson & Schultz: Johannesson & Schultz

Read "Johannesson & Schultz" reviewed by Chris Mosey

by Chris Mosey
February 10, 2011

Johannesson & Schultz is an album that triggers memories of those heady days in the late 1960s when fusion was all the rage. One that evokes distant echoes of Miles Davis' In A Silent Way (Columbia, 1969) and the work of guitarist Larry Coryell. It harks back to the quieter, more meditative end of the genre, free of electronic excess and pretension. So just who are Johannesson and Schultz? Peter Johannesson is a Swedish drummer hitherto best ...