2017

Parks Aaron/Ben Street/Billy Hart: Find the way [CD]

Digipack.<br/><br/>Dom skrattade när jag slog mig ned vid pianot. Men när jag började spela!" (they Laughed When I Sat Down At The Piano. But when I started to play!") är en svensk jazzklassiker med pianisten Berndt Egerbladhs kvartett. <br/><br/>Inspelningen gjordes i Stockholm hösten 1966, då Egerbladh beredde sig på att flytta från sin dittillsvarande hemstad Umeå för att utbilda sig till TV-producent i Stockholm där han fram till sin död 2004 kom att vara en flitig, mångsidig och vida omtyckt musiker, kompositör och programmakare. <br/><br/>På denna skiva hör vi hans Umeå-baserade kvartett som visar att jazzens utveckling i Sverige skedde på en bred front som även omfattade landets nordligare delar. <br/>All musik är signerad Egerbladh och spelas förutom av honom själv vid pianot av Lars-Göran Ulander altsax, Lars-Gunnar Gunnarsson kontrabas och Sten Öberg trummor.<br/>Förutom det ursprungliga LP-materialet finns här tre alternativa tagningar som tillägg.

Buczek Vivian: Ella lives 2017 [Digipack / CD]

Buczek Vivian: Ella lives [Vinyl LP]

Shorter Wayne: Native dancer 1975 [CD]

"Live" was the final album by fusion band Return To Forever. It was recorded live at the *Palladium* in New York City on May 20 1977 as part of the Musicmagic tour to support the album of the same name.<br/><br/>REMASTERED

For his third ECM release as a leader, Chris Potter presents a new acoustic quartet that naturally blends melodic rhapsody with rhythmic muscle. The group includes superlative musicians well known to followers of ECM's many recordings from New York over the past decade: keyboardist David Virelles, bassist Joe Martin and drummer Marcus Gilmore, who each shine in addition to the leader on multiple horns. The Dreamer Is the Dream features Potter on tenor saxophone - the instrument that has made him one of the most admired players of his generation - in the striking opener "Heart in Hand" and such album highlights as "Yasodhara," as well as on soprano sax ("Memory and Desire") and bass clarinet (the title track). Potter is an artist who "employs his considerable technique in service of music rather than spectacle," says The New Yorker, and his composing develops in texture and atmosphere with every album.