Size: 102,1 MB
Time: 44:00
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2009
Styles: Jazz Vocals
Art: Front
01. Your Smiling Face (3:10)
02. Take A Fall (5:06)
03. My Move (4:12)
04. Cotton Club Parade - I've Got The World On A String - I've Got The World On A String (2:57)
05. Standing Where The Changes Begin (4:59)
06. Winter Has Gone (4:27)
07. Modern Times - Smile (2:55)
08. South Pacific - Happy Talk (1:03)
09. Stormy Weather (5:15)
10. In The Light Of New York (4:49)
11. Smiling Hour (5:03)
Christina Gustafsson released her second album ‘My Move’ (Prophone) in April 2009. Half of the tunes on this CD are written by herself with lyrics by Cecilia Åse, Helena Davidsson and Stefan Danielsson. Her songs are rooted in jazz with influences from the American singer/songwriter tradition. The rest of the songs on the CD are Christina’s own arrangements of jazz standard favorites and the James Taylor’s hit Your Smiling Face. Co-producer is Pål Svenre, a well established name in Swedish popular music. Together with her musicians, the same musicians as on the debut album, Christina has established a personal sound which puts her in the top of Swedish successful jazz singers.
Christina released her debut album ‘Moments Free’ (Prophone) in 2007, an album that received great reviews by the critics. All music on the record is written by Christina with the exception ”Daydream” written by John Sebastian. On her debut album she has brought some of the most established musicians in Sweden. The guitar players Max Schultz and Erik Söderlind complete each other with great sensitivity and represents a major part of the albums character. Together with Calle Rasmusson (drums) and Martin Höper (bass) they performs the songs with great sense of style and there is place for both blues and a more lyrical approach. Pianist Daniel Karlsson appears on four of the tracks and adds his incredible energy and an never ending well of imagination. Christina produced this album together with Magnus Lindgren.
1994-1996 Christina lived in New York and studied at the Mannes College of Music. Here, she formed her first jazz quartet that played in clubs in Manhattan. Of the Swedish musicians Christina met in New York moved some of them to Sweden about the same time and with Karl-Martin Almqvist, Mattias Landaeus, Sebastian Voegler and Mattias Welin Christina formed in 1996 a Swedish quintet. The band played on jazz clubs in Sweden parallel with Christina’s studies to become a singing and improvisation teacher at the Academy of Music in Stockholm between 1996-99.
Christina released her debut album ‘Moments Free’ (Prophone) in 2007, an album that received great reviews by the critics. All music on the record is written by Christina with the exception ”Daydream” written by John Sebastian. On her debut album she has brought some of the most established musicians in Sweden. The guitar players Max Schultz and Erik Söderlind complete each other with great sensitivity and represents a major part of the albums character. Together with Calle Rasmusson (drums) and Martin Höper (bass) they performs the songs with great sense of style and there is place for both blues and a more lyrical approach. Pianist Daniel Karlsson appears on four of the tracks and adds his incredible energy and an never ending well of imagination. Christina produced this album together with Magnus Lindgren.
1994-1996 Christina lived in New York and studied at the Mannes College of Music. Here, she formed her first jazz quartet that played in clubs in Manhattan. Of the Swedish musicians Christina met in New York moved some of them to Sweden about the same time and with Karl-Martin Almqvist, Mattias Landaeus, Sebastian Voegler and Mattias Welin Christina formed in 1996 a Swedish quintet. The band played on jazz clubs in Sweden parallel with Christina’s studies to become a singing and improvisation teacher at the Academy of Music in Stockholm between 1996-99.
My Move
Size: 117,5 MB
Time: 50:38
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2012
Styles: Jazz Vocals
Art: Front & Back
01. You Make It (4:54)
02. Breathing, Air And Such (6:09)
03. The Law Of The Lady (4:01)
04. Close To Here (5:42)
05. It Might As Well Be Spring (5:54)
06. Love You Too - My Own Way Out (4:42)
07. Sometimes (5:40)
08. Hours Passing By (4:35)
09. Love You Too (5:27)
10. I Need Someone (3:30)
This has nothing to do with the transition to democracy in Burma; instead, it's Swedish jazz singer Christina Gustafsson's third attempt at emerging from under the shadow cast by her much better-known sister, Rigmor. Sadly, it's unlikely to make much of a dent internationally.
The principal fault lies in drummer Calle Rasmusson's production; there is far too much of it. Rasmusson has assembled some extremely talented musicians, including two gifted guitarists, Erik Söderlind and Max Schultz, award-winning flautist Magnus Lindgren and pianist Adam Forkelid. They provide some memorable moments, but nothing ever really gels as a whole, the music remaining "on the page," bereft of spontaneity and feeling.
A pity, because Gustafsson has obviously made a big effort. She talks of pursuing a vision and wrote the music for eight of these ten songs, although, as on previous outings, the lyrics are credited to others—primarily, in this case, to Stefan Danielsson.
Sometimes Danielsson has problems with his English. On "Close To Here," he makes a valiant but doomed bid to rhyme magic wand with wonderland, while "Love You Too" comes up with a somewhat baffling proposition: "You seem to be waking an ongoing dream to ease the pressure on your self-esteem." However, fair's fair; there are fewer linguistic faux pas than on Gustafsson's two previous albums.
"The Law Of The Lady" is quite interesting: a catchy love song in which the female protagonist starts out in pliable, even narcissistic mode, Gustaffson singing "I am the sweetest thing that you will ever know," before changing tack and coming on like a veritable dominatrix with "I'll lay down what you do, I'll lay down what you want."
There is one golden oldie. This is Rodgers and Hammerstein's "It Might As Well Be Spring," from the 1945 movie State Fair. It's a regular part of Gustafsson's live act with her trio, but here the singer is upstaged by Lindgren's superb solo.
Vocally, Gustafsson is at her best and most self-assured on guitarist Söderlind's "My Own Way Out," a meditation on the end of a love affair with excellent lyrics by Danielsson.
Johan Setterlind's trumpet gives a lift to the '70s-ish "Hours Passing By," but no one can do much to save the closer, the nondescript, simpering ballad "I Need Someone," dominated by heavy-handed and wisely unaccredited piano.
Here and there light gets through, providing a glimpse of what might have been. Perhaps more will emerge next time around.
Personnel: Christina Gustafsson: vocals. Adam Forkelid, Daniel Karlsson: piano; Magnus Lindgren: flute; Erik Söderlind, Max Schultz: guitar; Johan Setterlind, Patrik Skogh: trumpet; Karin Hammar, Lisa Bodelius: trombone; Eva-Tea Lundberg: French horn; Fredrik Jonsson, Kristian Lind: bass; Calle Rasmusson: drums; Sebastian Notini: percussion.
The principal fault lies in drummer Calle Rasmusson's production; there is far too much of it. Rasmusson has assembled some extremely talented musicians, including two gifted guitarists, Erik Söderlind and Max Schultz, award-winning flautist Magnus Lindgren and pianist Adam Forkelid. They provide some memorable moments, but nothing ever really gels as a whole, the music remaining "on the page," bereft of spontaneity and feeling.
A pity, because Gustafsson has obviously made a big effort. She talks of pursuing a vision and wrote the music for eight of these ten songs, although, as on previous outings, the lyrics are credited to others—primarily, in this case, to Stefan Danielsson.
Sometimes Danielsson has problems with his English. On "Close To Here," he makes a valiant but doomed bid to rhyme magic wand with wonderland, while "Love You Too" comes up with a somewhat baffling proposition: "You seem to be waking an ongoing dream to ease the pressure on your self-esteem." However, fair's fair; there are fewer linguistic faux pas than on Gustafsson's two previous albums.
"The Law Of The Lady" is quite interesting: a catchy love song in which the female protagonist starts out in pliable, even narcissistic mode, Gustaffson singing "I am the sweetest thing that you will ever know," before changing tack and coming on like a veritable dominatrix with "I'll lay down what you do, I'll lay down what you want."
There is one golden oldie. This is Rodgers and Hammerstein's "It Might As Well Be Spring," from the 1945 movie State Fair. It's a regular part of Gustafsson's live act with her trio, but here the singer is upstaged by Lindgren's superb solo.
Vocally, Gustafsson is at her best and most self-assured on guitarist Söderlind's "My Own Way Out," a meditation on the end of a love affair with excellent lyrics by Danielsson.
Johan Setterlind's trumpet gives a lift to the '70s-ish "Hours Passing By," but no one can do much to save the closer, the nondescript, simpering ballad "I Need Someone," dominated by heavy-handed and wisely unaccredited piano.
Here and there light gets through, providing a glimpse of what might have been. Perhaps more will emerge next time around.
Personnel: Christina Gustafsson: vocals. Adam Forkelid, Daniel Karlsson: piano; Magnus Lindgren: flute; Erik Söderlind, Max Schultz: guitar; Johan Setterlind, Patrik Skogh: trumpet; Karin Hammar, Lisa Bodelius: trombone; Eva-Tea Lundberg: French horn; Fredrik Jonsson, Kristian Lind: bass; Calle Rasmusson: drums; Sebastian Notini: percussion.
The Law Of The Lady
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