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...
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
