Jazz Articles about Ulf Anderson

Ulf Anderson Band: Flying Carpet

by Jack Bowers
February 1, 1999

Here’s a high–energy blowing session by a quintet of Swedes whose radiant concepts have been harvested from the often–plowed but unremittingly productive realm of bop. In a blindfold test, one would not only be hard–pressed to identify their country of origin but even to declare with any degree of certainty that they are not based in, say, New York City or southern California (Andersson, who wrote and arranged all the songs on the disc, even pays tribute to one of ...