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Nordic Sketches
By Ulf Bandgren
Label: Imogena
Released: 2002
Track listing: Sketch; Nimba; Bugs; Neptunus; Another Story; Waltz from Koster; You Know When You Got It; Vitra (49:10).
Lars Jansson: Ballads
by Jack Bowers
This is basically a trio album, but not completely; comprised of ballads by Swedish piano master Lars Jansson, but not completely. Songs like “The Tree,” “To the Mothers in Brazil” and “Something To Eat” may be ballads in the broadest sense of the word but their brisker tempos belie the image. And the trio becomes a ...
Ulf Bandgren: Nordic Sketches
by Jack Bowers
While eleven musicians are named in the album’s booklet, only five comprise the core unit on Ulf Bandgren’s perceptively drawn Nordic Sketches, and the harmonious interplay among them is a pleasure to hear. Bandgren’s expressive guitar, acoustic or electric, traverses the landscape with smooth, colorful strokes while the others in his quintet (and from time to ...
Plays Zappa
By The Bohusl
Label: Imogena
Released: 2001
Track listing: Zomby Woof; Sinester Footwear, movement 2; The Grand Wazoo; St. Alfonzo
Lars Jansson: Giving Receiving
by Jack Bowers
In searching for a word or phrase that best describes this album by Swedish pianist Lars Jansson’s sextet, the best I can come up with is “smooth Jazz with a touch of class.” What I mean is that even though the greater part of what is performed on Giving Receiving would not be in the least ...
The Bohusl: Plays Zappa
by Jack Bowers
Although I never considered Frank Zappa a Jazz artist, this is the third album I’ve heard in which big bands have reprised his music. The first one I didn’t care much for, the second I liked, and I’m saddened to report that this one, by Sweden’s talented Bohuslän Big Band, rests squarely in the former class. ...
