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Landgren Nils: Christmas with my friends/Jubilee [5 CD]

Nils Landgren står i centrum i Sonnets of Darkness and Love, tonsättaren Sven-David Sandströms sista verk. Inspirerad av Shakespeare, Lorca och Nietzsche återuppväcktes verket av Sveriges Radio efter att premiären först hade skjutits upp. Denna inspelning fångar Landgrens djupt uttrycksfulla tolkning och hedrar Sandströms arv med svävande trombonlinjer och mäktiga klanger av Radiokören.

Basisten, cellisten och kompositören Lars Danielsson tillsammans med två andra jazzstjärnor: finska trumpetaren Verneri Pohjola och brittiska gitarristen John Parricelli. Musiken fångar den unika atmosfären från inspelningsmiljöns lugn, skönhet och intimitet på slottet Château Palmer i Bordeaux, Frankrike.

Pianisten Jan Lundgren mötte den brasilianske gitarristen Yamandu Costa på en middag i Malmö 2019. Det sade "klick" direkt och de började prata om att göra något tillsammans. Deras första konsert som duo ägde rum i Stockholm på våren 2023. Ett år senare var de mogna att spela in detta album. En piano-gitarr-duo det slår gnistor om!<br/><br/> LIRA GILLAR! Jan Lundgren & Yamandu Costa "Inner Spirits"

e.s.t:s sista album låg redan färdigställt när Esbjörn Svensson så tragiskt och hastigt omkom i juni 2008. Leucocyte blir nu Esbjörn Svenssons och trions arv till eftervärlden.

Landgren Nils: Teamwork 2013 [Digipack / CD]

One Father, One Son, Two Guitars<br/><br/>"He plays the guitar like he was born with it already in his hands" was how John McLaughlin once praised Ulf Wakenius. What is true for the father might be even more true for Ulf's guitarist son Eric, who probably was quite literally born with one..<br/><br/>"Eric really is a blessing", says Ulf Wakenius. "We have shared many concerts all over the world and it has always been a pure joy!" So the time is clearly right to document this family saga: "Father And Son" is a virtuoso conversation in the art of contemporary jazz guitar. This duo can launch into swing mode, or strut out towards rock, they are capable of being both lyrical and percussively extrovert, they can dream ballads or go at breakneck speed. And whether they are telling tales of exotic lands or contemplating their native Sweden, the pair - with their instinct for atmosphere, their sensitivity to acoustics and balance - make soul-stirring, affecting and compelling music, in which the listener can detect the closeness of their connection to each other.<br/><br/>The musical backgrounds of father and son are very different. Ulf Wakenius had ten years as a member of the Oscar Peterson Quartet and also worked with the two legends of the bass, Ray Brown and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen. He is known for his collaborations with great jazz figures such as Pat Metheny, Michael Brecker and Michel Legrand, and of course for his work with the singer Youn Sun Nah. He is not just one of the most busy and in-demand players, but also the most creative jazz guitarists of our era. His son Eric, by contrast was born in 1988 and surrounded as a teenager by the rock and pop music of the nineties. After that, he spent a lot of time in Los Angeles, where he picked up many different stylistic directions from that city's musical melting pot. "He has played a lot of electric guitar", explains Wakenius, "but - like me - he has fallen in love with the acoustic guitar and its many possibilities."