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Approximately five years ago we released the album" Jazz & the city", which became an immediate success with more than 30 000 albums sold. Now we dare to repeat this success - this time with a completely unique content!<br/><br/>One of the CDs in this 2CD box contains Nordic material only, which we market as "Divas of Nordic Jazz". It's a selection with some of the most celebrated and known young Nordic female jazz singers from the Nordic countries, with a good foothold in their respective home countries.<br/>You have most probably heard of Rigmor Gustavsson, Helle Brunvoll, Sophie Pettersson, Zelma, Ira Kaspi, Gunhild Nyborg, LaGaylia Frasier. If not, it's an excellent opportunity to buy this compilation!<br/><br/>These names give the tone of CD1 with modern, smart and sensual jazz, which the Nordic region has gotten itself known for in the Jazz world.<br/><br/>Listen to the album and dream yourself away while you glance through this well designed "coffee table"-box with its beautiful pictures in a New York atmosphere.<br/><br/>CD2 contains standards by famous jazz legends in unique interpretations. This is not the Rat Pack - this is the Jazz Legend Party Pack. so what do you say? We say - Jazz & the city!

Digipack.<br/><br/>Gunnar Siljabloo Nilson blev tidigt inspirerad av Artie Shaw. Han var självlärd, kanske en anledning till att klarinetten verkligen blev en förlängning av honom själv. Detsamma gällde hans sätt att sjunga. Hans dramatiska och uttrycksfulla rörelser gjorde honom till jazzens showman. Han fick verkligen publiken med sig när han uppträdde på scenen. I Jacques Werup's bok "Lev länge, dö ung" är romanfiguren Lennie Blue en uppdiktad gestalt inspirerad av Siljabloo. <br/><br/>"Det var på Nalen, i maj -53. Topsy hade för en gångs skull själv gått upp på scenen och presenterat "idolen" uppifrån det vilda Notviken. Lennie hade kommit in i guldlamésmoking och sjungit "Illusions", en stillsam Benny Carter-grej. Sällan hade en artist fått såna ovationer för en ballad. Så gjorde han inte heller hopen besviken. Det blev spex och scat, gycklarkonster i allvaret. Lennie vände ut och in på kavajen och satte slipsen som en mustach under näsan, härmade både Hitler och Stalin. Packet tjöt av hänförelse, kåken håll på att sprängas. Lennart hade då äntligen blivit Lennie Blue med jazzdiggarna, genombrottsvaxet hade nåt år på nacken. Sålt i över tjugotusen ex. En jazzplatta!" Folk var som galna, kunde inte få nog." <br/><br/>Siljabloo avled av en hjärtattack på tåget till en spelning. Han var en oförliknelig sångare och klarinettist, ett äkta naturbarn som blev mycket folkkär. En av den svenska jazzens största glädjespridare.

Riedel Georg: Dance music/Live at Fasching 2019 [Digipack / CD]

Taborn Craig: Avenging Angel [CD]

British pianist Django Bates returns to ECM with one of his very finest constellations, the trio Belovèd, with Swedish bassist Petter Eldh and Danish drummer Peter Bruun, and an aptly named album, "The Study of Touch". All three musicians are highly individual players, subtly challenging the conventions of the jazz piano trio. The group came together a decade ago when Bates was teaching at Copenhagen's Rhythmic Music Conservatory. The shared work has included inspired reconstructions of pieces associated with Charlie Parker - a formative influence for both Bates and bassist Eldh - and in this new album, Parker's tune "Passport" is set amid Django originals, and played with respect, contemporary sensibility and joy. Some of Django's own tunes here - such as "Senza Bitterness", "Sadness All The Way Down" and "We Are Not Lost, We Are Simply Finding Our Way" have become core pieces in Belovèd's repertoire, continually remodeled by this trio of improvisers. Bates' composing and arranging skills are much in evidence, along with his freewheeling, free-flowing virtuosic melodic sense. The terse, percussive edge of Petter Eldh's bass provides momentum and drummer Peter Bruun details the music with an almost painterly touch. In the crowded world of the piano trio, Belovèd has developed a sound all its own. "The Study of Touch" was recorded at Oslo's Rainbow Studio in June 2016, and produced by Manfred Eicher.

Sheppard Andy: Movements in colour 2009 [CD]

Turner Mark/Ethan Iverson: Temporary kings 2018 [CD]