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Bohuslan Big Band

Bohuslän Big Band is one of Northern Europe’s foremost big bands and an essential part of the Scandinavian jazz scene. The big band collaborates with national and international artists and composers contributing to an active and vibrant music life both domestically and internationally.
 

A Well Noted Jazz Company

The history of Bohuslän Big Band goes back to the early 1800s when they were one of many military orchestras in Sweden under the name of Bohus Battalion. From the mid-1950s, the band developed into one of Sweden’s only two fully professional big bands and consisting of sixteen full-time musicians.

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Lumen

Label: Prophone Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Lumen; Across the Crystal Sea; Suite for the Americas; Prayer for Peace; Expeditions; Galactic Panama; One for Toni (Dedicated to Toni Mor; Irremediablemente; Sunburn and Mosquito.

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

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

Read "Frank Zappa's Jazz Legacy Refuses to Die, Part 2" reviewed by Ludovico Granvassu


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 ...

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Article: Album Review

Bohuslan Big Band: Don't Fence Me In

Read "Don't Fence Me In" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


Some of the finest compositions in The Great American Songbook, one of Europe's most talented big bands and one of the best arrangers Britain has produced. Put them all together on one CD, and it doesn't disappoint. The Cole Porter songs on Don't Fence Me In are among the most familiar in popular music, but while ...


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