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Harri Ihanus: Eye Opener
by Matthew Wuethrich
Swedish-Finnish guitarist Harri Ihanus took the backward route of discovery that many guitar players have. Sparked by rock and blues, he soon fell under the grandiose spell of McLaughlin, Metheny and Coryell, then naturally turned to Pass, Burrell, and horn players like Parker and Coltrane—the roots. And that's where he has stayed. His Imogena debut, Eye ...
Robert Nordmark: In Motion
by Matthew Wuethrich
At the heart of the jazz listening experience lies a paradox. Jazz is a music built on the live interplay of musicians, material and self, but we experience the music mostly through the record, or as Andre Millard calls it, in his book America on Record, ”the primary experience.” Millard also extends this notion to the ...
Martina Almgren Quartet: Unden
by Matthew Wuethrich
Swedish drummer Martina Almgren declares that she wants to combine strong rhythms with ”expressive melodies.” On Unden, with a quartet of sensitive musicians, she achieves that goal. She has also been a flutist, and while she plays it here on only one tune, its influence is felt on all twelve of the album’s pieces, most of ...
Terje Sundby: Ynde
by Matthew Wuethrich
Maybe it’s time someone called Nordic jazz the West Coast Cool of Europe. The Cool school favored focused lyricism over angular melodies, softly padding swing over propulsive drive, and feathery dynamics over brash volume—all qualities that some of the more overtly “Nordic” jazz shares, while it injects a healthy dose of space and echo to create ...
Ronny Johansson Trio: Jubilee
by Craig W. Hurst
Pianist Ronny Johansson has been part of the jazz scene in Sweden for over 40 years, performing with great artists such as Art Farmer, Benny Bailey, Don Byas, Red Rodney and Warne Marsh. Johansson, who grew up in Uppsala, also played piano with on Eric Dolphy’s 1961 album The Complete Uppsala Concert. Since 1975, Johansson has ...
Witnessing
By Lars Jansson
Label: Imogena
Released: 2003
Track listing: Success-Failure; Get It; Witnessing; At Ease; Fred; Quiet Mornings; Inner Flow; Just Being; New
Blues; Resting in the Shadow; The Wounded Healer Can Heal; Reading Music (62:44).
The Lars Jansson Trio: Witnessing
by Jack Bowers
Good as this Swedish trio is -- and trust me, it’s very good -- it is pianist Lars Jansson’s exceptional talents as composer / arranger that raise it well above the ordinary. Every song on the album is Jansson’s, and had he misfired, the enterprise could have fallen flat on its face; instead it soars on ...
The Ronny Johansson Trio: Jubilee
by Jack Bowers
A splendid piano trio album from Sweden, Jubilee is beautifully played and beautifully recorded as well. While the names were new to me, it was clear from the outset that Messrs. Johansson, Mori and Karlsson have played together on more than one occasion. Each anticipates the others’ every move and reacts without question or pause, the ...
Ballads
By Lars Jansson
Label: Imogena
Released: 2002
Track listing: Hope; The Tree; Why Was I Left Under the Sky; In Peaceful Sleep; To the Mothers in Brazil; More Human; Under the Bodhi Tree; In Memory of Leroy Lowe; Marionette; The Inner Room; Rojo y Negro; Something to Eat; Freedom and Destiny 1; Freedom and Destiny 2; Gruad Larose; Soft Breeze; Ma; Atlantico (71:58).
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