Results for "Nils Landgren/Esbjorn Svensson"

Nils Landgren/Esbjorn Svensson: Swedish Folk Modern

by John Kelman
March 18, 2004

Contrary to Wynton Marsalis and Stanley Crouch, jazz is no longer an American or, even more specifically, Afro-American art form. Jazz has, in fact, always been about incorporating music from various traditions, folk and otherwise, into something of a cultural melting pot. While American musicians including John Coltrane, Louis Armstrong and Miles Davis looked to African ...