Artist: Pelle Trazan Jonasson
Title: Copenhagen Connection
Year Of Release: 2009
Label: Gazell Records
Genre: Jazz
Quality: Mp3 / 320kbps
Total Time: 57:32 min
Total Size: 132 MB
Tracklist
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01. Secret Love
02. Little Willie Leaps
03. If You Could See Me Now
04. Star Eyes
05. Prelude In Blue
06. Nothing Special
07. Our Delight
08. You and the Night and the Music
09. Sometime Ago
10. Backgammon
11. Firm Roots
Bebop is spoken throughout this excellent set. Two Swedish musicians (pianist Jan Lundgren and trumpeter Peter Asplund) meet up with a couple of Americans (bassist Dave Carpenter and drummer Paul Kreibich) on a variety of superior standards, plus a couple of jazz interpretations of obscure Swedish songs. Asplund has a bright sound in the Clifford Brown tradition; Lundgren looks toward Bud Powell; and the Americans are quite supportive of the lead voices.
To break up the strict quartet format, Barney Kessel's "Swedish Pastry" is taken by the rhythm trio; Lundgren and Asplund play a duet version of "Sodermalm"; Lundgren is absent on "I Hear a Rhapsody"; and "How Deep Is the Ocean" is a piano-bass duet. Other highlights include "Au Privave," "What Is This Thing Called Love," and "When It's Sleepy Time Down South." Easily recommended to bebop collectors.
Personnel: Jan Lundgren(p); Jesper Lundgaard(b); Pelle Trazan Jonasson(ds); Nisse Sandstrom(ts)
