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Swedish Folk Modern

Label: ACT Music
Released: 2004
Track listing: Hornlat; Vallat fran Jamtland; Lapp-Nils Polska; Free Esbjorn; Midsommarvaka from Swedish Rhapsody No. 1; Hymn:
Morgon Mellan Fjallen; Halling; The Winters Tale (Epilogue); Vallat fran Harjedalen; Gardebylaten; Visa fran Leksand;
Vaggvisa; Free Nils; Lapps-Nils Polska (live bonus track)
Nils Landgren/Esbjorn Svensson: Swedish Folk Modern

by John Kelman
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 ...