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Jazz Formation: A Letter to Ake Persson

By Bjorn Samuelsson

Label: Imogena
Released: 2006
Track listing: Blue in

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Bjorn Samuelsson: Jazz Formation: A Letter To Ake Persson

Read "Jazz Formation: A Letter To Ake Persson" reviewed by Ken Kase

by Ken Kase
May 9, 2006

Trombone enthusiasts can rejoice at the arrival of a new voice on an instrument which has been unjustly under-represented in the jazz canon. Regardless of Björn Samuelsson's considerable technique, fine intonation and improvisational prowess, the arrival of his debut disc featuring a quartet with trombone out front is likely to raise a few eyebrows.Jazz ...

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Bjorn Samuelsson: Jazz Formation: A Letter to Ake Persson

Read "Jazz Formation: A Letter to Ake Persson" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
March 1, 2006

Åke Persson (1932-75), widely known as “the Comet, is arguably the greatest jazz trombonist ever to come out of Sweden (certainly the best-known), a truly remarkable innovator who performed with a galaxy of American stars and was a mainstay in the legendary Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band, as well as Germany's RIAS Big Band. Björn Samuelsson ...