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Georg Riedel: Dance Music: Georg Riedel Meets Ekdahl/Bagge Big Band
by Jack Bowers
Czech-born, Swedish-bred bassist Georg Riedel, best known as a composer of ten or more film scores, returns to his first love, big-band jazz, to conduct an evening of Dance Music with Sweden's world-class Ekdahl/Bagge Big Band, recorded in June 2019 at Fasching Jazz Club in Stockholm. Before arriving at “Dance Music," the hour-long concert opens with Riedel's three-part “Song for Nobody," also suitable for dancing and well-received by the audience at Fasching. Part 3, a lovely ballad, ...
Continue ReadingEkdahl / Bagge Big Band: New Thing
by Jack Bowers
It's always exciting and pleasurable to welcome a new member into the jazz world's ever-shrinking big-band fraternity--especially one as sharp and energetic as this. The tasteful and impressive Ekdahl / Bagge Big Band--from Stockholm, Sweden, no less--takes its name from those of its co-leaders, drummer Per Ekdahl and pianist Carl Bagge who composed and / or arranged seven of the nine numbers on the band's dazzling debut album, New Thing. Putting its best foot forward from the ...
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