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Bugge Wesseltoft: It's Still Snowing on My Piano [CD]

Wesseltoft Bugge: It's Snowing On My Piano [CD]

Den franske trumpetaren "Daoud" presenterar ett jazzalbum som behandlas som allt annat än ett jazzalbum. Den stillsamma musiken skapades live i studion tillsammans med keyboardisten Leo Colman, kontrabasisten Louis Navarro, trummisen Silvan Strauss, elbasisten/gitarristen/keyboardisten Jules Minck och keyboardisten Kuz.

Svenska pianisten Joel Lyssarides har länge varit nyfiken på sina grekiska rötter. Hos bouzouki-spelaren Giogios Prokopiou fann han det han sökte. Tillsammans skapar de skön jazz med en doft av Grekland.<br/><br/>LIRA GILLAR! "Makalöst musicerande skivan igenom. Missa inte en av årets finaste överraskningar." (Andreas Lagercrantz, Lira)

Crossover is a thing of the past: the future is Tonbruket!<br/>This band, formed around e.s.t. bassist Dan Berglund, "loves to tear down genre borders [...] and exposes a fascinating sound somewhere between jazz and rock" (Stern magazine). Now, with its fourth album, Tonbruket continue their adventure-loving expedition into the no man's land between the most divergent of musical directions with "Forevergreens". The four musicians are in no way about any kind of crossover, their goal is sensual internalization.<br/>Melodies, images, motifs, rhythms and sounds mix. Any attempt to locate this free-play on the accepted genre map is doomed to fail, because each song offers new hints as to its whereabouts. Just as many possible styles can be derived from the primal treasure of Tonbruket material as are influences required to accomplish in this mixture, which is as powerful as it is explosive. Tonbruket comprises four extreme individualists, who discover a unique collective identity here.<br/><br/>The dense band sound that interweaves the various instruments has priority over solo excursions. "Forevergreens" again lives and thrives on Berglund's and Werliin's enthralling grooves, on the variable guitar sounds of Lindström's and Hederos' solemn keyboard surfaces, but most of all on the tight-knit interplay of all these components together. Tonbruket stands for experiencing the sounds of the present, as they are shaped by hectic and stress, but also by an irrepressible longing for balance, harmony and peace.

Sexfaldiga Grammy Awards-vinnaren Al Jarreau, både inom jazz, pop och R&B, gick bort i februari 2017 vid en ålder av 76. Under hösten 2016 gjorde han sin sista Europaturné, ihop med Nordtyska Radions Storband, i ett program med Duke Ellingtons låtskatt.<br/><br/>"It was Al's style and personality that held it all together. The whole thing was a true combination of Jarreau's and Ellington's musical mastery - it appealed to audiences all over Europe, they loved the programme."<br/>(Jörg Achim Keller, NDR:s kapellmästare)<br/><br/> "Al Jarreau är på gott humör och det är härligt att höra hans fina tolkningar av låtarna som Ellington brukade framföra med sitt berömda storband. NDR Bigband och Jarreau bjuder på finfint musicerande, ett strålande avslut på sångarens karriär." (Andreas Lagercrantz)

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