Home » Search Center » Results: Urban Hansson

Results for "Urban Hansson"

About Urban Hansson

Results for pages tagged "Urban Hansson"...

Musician

Urban Hansson, born June 6, 1943. Saxophone and flute. He studied saxophone in the USA with Booker Ervin. Hansson was a member of the Swedish group "The Gimmicks". Between 1969- 73 he travelled all over the world doing radio, television and recording work with them. He used to have a program on the Swedish radio called "Jazzbetonat", which translates rather aptly: "Emphasis On Jazz". "Emphasis On Jazz" was the name of the group he formed together with piano player Berndt Egerbladh in 1976. The group's first LP (simply called "Emphasis on Jazz") was released in 1977

Album

Flute Fascination

By Urban Hansson

Label: GillboLaget Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: All Blues; I Got It Bad; Winds Over Tannisby; All Of Me; All The Things You Are; Monk Delight; Sweet And Lovely; Take The A-train; Body And Soul; Flute Fascination.

306

Article: Album Review

Urban Hansson: Flute Fascination

Read "Flute Fascination" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
September 25, 2009

Instrumental jazz duet recordings that are not piano-based are a rarity; one that comes to mind is guitarist Jim Hall and bassist Ron Carter's Alone Together (Milestone, 1972). But a disc made up of exclusively flute “conversations" with other less commonly used instruments (at least in this setting) is almost unheard of. Swedish flutist Urban Hansson ...

Album