Nils Landgren - Chrismas With My Friends VI (ACT MUSIC 2018)

Christmas without the songs – it's unthinkable. And yet how can one be open to different musical styles and also strike a good balance between them? How can all the right moods for the festive season be captured? Should it be classical or soulful, gospel or pop, blues or jazz? The result can often be just one style of singing from one person – but that’s not the case with Nils Landgren's "Christmas With My Friends". A sequence which would normally have had to be patched together from a wide range of interpreters is all there, and from just the one source. Alongside the Swedish trombonist/singer himself, there are four vocalists, Jeanette Köhn, Ida Sand, Jessica Pilnäs and Sharon Dyall, and their fundamentally different voices allow them to combine many musical genres. The way these four co-exist so harmoniously is just one o...

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Nils Landgren / trombone, vocals

Sharon Dyall / vocals

Jonas Knutsson / saxophon

Jeanette Köhn / vocals

Eva Kruse / bass

Jessica Pilnäs / vocals

Ida Sandlund / vocals, piano

Johan Norberg / guitar

1 Chrismas Is ( Eva Kruse & Peter Liljeqvist) 03:00

2 Oh No, It's Christmas Again ( Johan Norberg/Nils Landgren) 02:34

3 Who Comes This Night ( Dave Grusin/Sally Stevens) 03:47

4 Wie soll ich dich empfangen ( Johann S. Bach/Paul Gerhardt) 02:02

5 Little Drummer Boy / Peace On Earth ( Katherine K. Davis, Harry Simeone & Henry Onorati / Ian Fraser, Larry Grossman & Alan Kohan) 03:16

6 Come One, Come All ( Jonas Knutsson/Sharon Dyall) 04:01

7 What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? ( Frank Loesser) 03:31

8 The Story of Christmas ( Evelina Gard) 02:57

9 I Have A Dream ( Benny Andersson & Björn Ulvaeus) 02:58

10 Merry Christmas Baby ( Lou Baxter & Johnny Moore) 03:00

11 Christmas Lullaby ( John Rutter) 03:58

12 When This Night Is Over ( Jessica Pilnäs) 03:56

13 I'd Like You For Christmas ( Bobby Troup) 03:05

14 Hymn No III ( Johan Norberg & Nils Landgren) 01:51

15 Den signade dag ( traditional, Johan Olof Wallin) 03:25

16 Hark! The Heald Angles Sing ( Felix M. Bartholdy/Charles Wesley) 04:11

Eva Kruse - On the Mo (REDHORN RECORDS & NAXOS 2016)

On her new album ”On the Mo” Eva Kruse created a unique and intriguing quintet sound. ”Mo” stands for ”Moped” and Eva made up the motto ”On the Mo – on the Go” that inspired her to compose the music for this album. ”On the Mo” is more groovy, more dense and more forward-moving as her debut-album ”In Water”. But even now the lyricism in the extraordinary melodies played by oboist Tjadina Wake-Walker and saxophonist Uwe Steinmetz is important in Eva´s music. Together with drummer Eric Schaefer and pianist Christian Jormin she presents a highly energetic but fine-tuned rhythm section. For ”In Water” Eva Kruse won a German grammy as ”bass player of the year 2015”.

01. On the Mo Prelude

02. On the Mo

03. Follow the Bass

04. Out of the Deep

05. In Motion

06. What Do You Say When the Sky Is Grey

07. Staffan var en stalledräng

08. Winterland

09. Stop and Go

10. Freetown

11. Küchen Rock

Eva Kruse, Bass

Tjadina Wake-Walker, Oboe

Uwe Steinmetz, Soprano AND Alto sax

Christian Jormin, Piano

Eric Schaefer Drums