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Red Mitchell: A Declaration of Interdependence
by Jack Bowers
An out–of–the–ordinary 1988 session by the “Red Mitchell Trio,” which, courtesy of modern technology, is composed of Red Mitchell on bass, Red Mitchell on piano and Red Mitchell on vocals. The “leader,” of course, was known primarily as a bassist (the past tense is used because he passed away in November ’92), but his “sidemen” are ...
Lisa Linn: On Such a Wonderful Summer Night
by Jack Bowers
Although the liner notes describe an outdoor concert on a football green with thousands seated on the grass and Lisa Linn singing from atop a lorry, Summer Night is actually a studio date recorded in March/April ’98 at Radio Sweden. So much for truth in advertising. As for the music, it’s pleasantly loose and swinging, but ...
Jan Lundgren: Conclusion
by Jack Bowers
Conclusion, recorded in 1994, marked not an end but the beginning as leader of his own trio for pianist Jan Lundgren (which must be Swedish for “spectacular”). Lundgren, who turned 33 last month, has since verified his position as one of the most accomplished young pianists on the Jazz scene, in Sweden or anywhere else. Lundgren ...
Jan Lundgren / Peter Asplund Quartet: California Connection
by Jack Bowers
The “California connection” on this colorful studio date, recorded in January ’96, is scrupulously forged between two marvelous young Swedish musicians, Asplund and Lundgren, and a duo of long–time West Coast stalwarts, Carpenter and Kreibich. Although Asplund was only 27 at the time and Lundgren 29, they play with an awareness and maturity far beyond their ...
Rich Matteson Sextet: "Pardon Our Dust, We're Making Changes"
by Jack Bowers
If the late Rich Matteson had chosen performing instead of education as a career, he could’ve challenged harmonica virtuoso Toots Thielemans for top honors each year in Down Beat magazine’s “miscellaneous instruments” category. Matteson, who established the Jazz Studies program at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, often joked that he was “the world’s greatest ...
Ake Persson: The Great
by Jack Bowers
For more than two decades Åke Persson was widely recognized as Europe's foremost Jazz trombonist, and indeed one of the world's leading players. Persson's remarkable career ended in February 1975 when the 43'year'old musician took his own life. These historic sessions document Persson's early years (1951'57), before he became a member of the Harry Arnold or ...
Jan Lundgren: Bird of Passage
by Jack Bowers
I’d read several rave reviews of young Swedish pianist Jan Lundgren and looked forward to listening for myself to hear if he was as good as others said he was. He is. Lundgren has, among other things, exquisite taste, marvelous touch, flawless technique, an attentive ear, power to spare when called for, and a bounteous wellspring ...
Rich Matteson-Red Mitchell: Life's a Take
by Jack Bowers
It’s almost as hard to comprehend that this buoyant album was recorded almost 15 years ago as it is to accept the fact that neither Rich Matteson (“the world’s greatest Jazz euphonium player”) nor Red Mitchell (“one of the world’s two greatest bassists to share that surname”) is no longer with us. Ironically, the session’s scurrying, ...
Rolf Ericson with the Metropole Orchestra: Beautiful Love
by Jack Bowers
Sweden, which has produced an exceedingly large number of world–class Jazz musicians for a country its size, was home to one of the finest of them all, trumpeter Rolf Ericson, whose long and varied career ended with his passing in June 1997. Ericson, an impassioned bop–based improviser with a crystalline tone and irreprovable technique, performed with ...
Ola : Ola
by Jack Bowers
With a sharp attack that calls to mind Curtis Fuller or Kai Winding and an understated manner that compares favorably with such legends as Bill Harris or Urbie Green, trombonist Ola Åkerman leads his Swedish–based quintet through its bop–centered paces in a program that consists of seven of his original compositions, the standard “Cry Me a ...
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