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Jan Lundgren celebrates Andre Previn and Cole Porter
by Chris Mosey
What do Andre Previn and Cole Porter have in common? Well, with Saul Chaplin, Previn adapted Porter's greatest hit, the score for the 1953 MGM musical Kiss Me Kate. Apart from this, and with little apparent consequence until now, both men greatly influenced the life of Torgil Rosenberg, a Swedish dentist, amateur flier and jazz enthusiast. ...
Jordan Young Group: Jordan Young Group
by Chris Mosey
At best, the Jordan Young Group cooks like one of those hard bop organ-led outfits of the 1960s. At worst it PiNGs. The “PiNGs" are short clips from a long improvisation, credited on the sleeve as a composition by its initiator, organist Brian Charette, who calls it “a song with no consequences." Young says, “I felt ...
Johanna Grussner: From Scandinavia to NYC... and back again
by Chris Mosey
Johanna Grüssner is a truly remarkable young woman. Aged 28, she has emerged as one of the best, most professional jazz singers in the Nordic Area after paying her dues in the toughest environment jazz has to offer; gigging around clubs in New York City, including Birdland, where she sang backed by a big band she ...
Johanna Grussner: Come Rain Or Come Shine
by Chris Mosey
Her clear-as-a-bell vocals, assured phrasing and near perfect grasp of English put Johanna Grüssner right at the top of the current crop of Scandinavian female jazz singers. Come Rain Or Come Shine is her third solo album and best yet: a gently swinging, highly enjoyable mix of straight jazz and Brazilian samba, performed with supreme professionalism. ...
Niels Lan Doky: Return to Denmark
by Chris Mosey
The trouble with Niels Lan Doky is that, like Saint Paul, he seeks to be all things to all men. He's a pianist, basically in the Bill Evans tradition when it comes to jazz, but says he's equally at home with classical, world, pop, soul, rhythm and blues and electronic music. He lays claim to being ...
Thomas Hulten: Slide Side
by Chris Mosey
Thomas Hultén is a versatile, extremely busy and, presumably, God-fearing and honest young/youngish trombonist who started playing the instrument with the local Salvation Army band in his home town of Katrineholm, Sweden, at the age of 10. Displaying a healthy disrespect for musical categorization, he went on to play with various symphony orchestras ...
Lill Lindfors: Lill
by Chris Mosey
Alas, Lill Lindfors remains best known outside Sweden for her “wardrobe malfunction" in the 1985 Eurovision song contest, actually a well-handled publicity stunt. She's actually a remarkably good vocalist and a dynamic performer, worth far more than that annual dose of television schlock. Lindfors is not known for singing jazz but does it extremely well.
Mads Vinding: Bubbles & Ballads / Bass & Bones
by Chris Mosey
With the death of Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen in 2005, the keys to the kingdom of double bass playing in Denmark passed at long last to Mads Vinding. Only two years separated the two men--Pedersen was born in 1946, Vinding in 1948--but “young" Vinding always found himself in the giant shadow cast by Pedersen. ...
Papa Bue: 80 at 80
by Chris Mosey
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was an age of duffle coats, beards, sandals and sunglasses. It was the age of Trad. It was how European youth discovered jazz. Britain had Chris Barber, Ken Colyer and, a little further down the line--by which time newspaper headlines were referring to ...
Joonatan Rautio Trio: Commitment
by Chris Mosey
This is that exceedingly rare item: a Finnish jazz record intended for the wider world. Ever since 1926, when the SS Andania famously put into Helsinki harbor with its “hot" band, The Andania Yankees, jazz has been part of musical life in this small country on the outer fringes of Europe. However, local jazzers, it must ...
