Bernt Rosengren - Live At Jazzcup

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 2013
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 63:13
Size: 145,2 MB
Art: Front

(12:31) 1. Autumn Leaves
(11:39) 2. I'm Old Fashioned
( 9:09) 3. Body & Soul
(11:53) 4. There Will Never Be Another You
( 9:24) 5. Lover Man
( 8:34) 6. Jazzcup Blues

Since the Jazzkæelderen struck again, Jazzcup is Copenhagen's best jazz shop, but also a good venue. During the season, regular concerts are given there on Saturday afternoons. At one of these, last December, Bernt Rosengren performed accompanied by pianist Ole Kock Hansen, bassist Jesper Lundgaard and drummer Niclas Campagnol.

The concert is now available on disc. Lundgaard has produced, and he reserves himself against shortcomings in the sound quality. But as he also says: many of jazz's best records were recorded under simple conditions.

The group plays five standards (Autumn leaves, Body & soul and Lover man among others) and a blues. The atmosphere is laid-back, Bernt Rosengren plays relaxed and with the choice-free immediacy that half a century of first-class musicianship provides. The rhythm section is compliant, and Ole Kock Hansen excels with seemingly simple means. Everything becomes obvious, but the music is also unceasingly vital. And more probably doesn't need to be said.https://www-lira-se.translate.goog/skivrecension/live-at-jazzcup/

Personnel: Bernt Rosengren, tenor sax; Ole Kock Hansen, piano; Jesper Lundgaard, bass; Niclas Campagnol, drums

Live At Jazzcup

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Bernt Rosengren - Plays George Gershwin's Porgy & Bess

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 55:09
Size: 126.3 MB
Styles: Bop, World Fusion
Year: 1996
Art: Front

[4:27] 1. Summertime
[2:37] 2. A Woman Is A Sometime Thing
[1:46] 3. Porgy´s Entre The Cotton Hook
[2:08] 4. Gone, Gone, Gone
[1:47] 5. Overflow 1 & 2
[3:42] 6. My Man´s Gone Now
[2:50] 7. Leavin´ For The Promised Lan´
[1:27] 8. I Got Plenty O Nuttin´
[3:54] 9. The Buzzard Song
[6:12] 10. Bess, You Is My Woman Now
[3:30] 11. I Ain´t Got No Shame
[4:08] 12. It Ain´t Necessarily So
[4:19] 13. I Loves You Porgy
[2:42] 14. A Red Headed Woman
[2:23] 15. Clara, Clara
[0:57] 16. Porgy´s Theme
[3:43] 17. There´s A Boat Dat´s Leavin´ Soon For New York
[2:27] 18. Oh, Bess, Oh Where´s My Bess

Acoustic jazz has had a surplus of George Gershwin tributes over the years -- some of them quite memorable, some of them pretty routine. One of the most memorable examples of a jazzman embracing Gershwin's music in the 1990s was this 1996 date by veteran tenor saxophonist Bernt Rosengren. Leading an all-Scandinavian octet that includes Gunnar Bergsten on baritone sax, Tommy Koverhult on soprano sax, Hakan Nyquist on French horn, Sven Berggren on trombone and Peter Nordahl on piano, the Swedish improviser focuses entirely on the music from the 1930s musical Porgy & Bess and provides thoughtful arrangements that recall Miles Davis' orchestral work of the late 1950s.

Although the CD is entirely instrumental, Rosengren called it a "jazz opera" and saw the horns as portraying main characters from the play: while Bergsten is Porgy and Koverhult is Bess, the leader "plays" Sporting Life. But while lovers of the play will find that information of interest, even those who have never seen a production of Porgy & Bess will find Rosengren's arrangements of classics like "Summertime," "I Loves You So" and "It Ain't Necessary So" rewarding. In Sweden, this CD was exalted as one of the saxman's finest achievements, and those who made that claim weren't exaggerating. Coincidentally, Rosengren was born the very year Gershwin died (1937), which underscores the remarkable staying power Gershwin's songs have.By Alex Henderson

Plays George Gershwin's Porgy & Bess

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Doug Raney - Lazy Bird

Styles: Guitar Jazz
Year: 1987
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 52:21
Size: 121,0 MB
Art: Front

( 3:43)  1. Walking the Duck
( 7:56)  2. Reggie of Chester
( 6:53)  3. Feo's Waltz
( 9:08)  4. Lazy Bird
( 7:50)  5. Beatrice
(14:06)  6. Theme for Ernie
( 2:42)  7. Walking the Duck - Alternate Take

Starting in 1977 and continuing into the mid-1980s, guitarist Doug Raney's career was extensively documented by the SteepleChase label. Influenced by his father Doug Raney, Tal Farlow, and Jim Hall, Raney pretty much had his style together from the start, so his evolution since the beginning is pretty logical. This quintet outing matches Raney with a European quintet whose best-known members are tenor saxophonist Bernt Rosengren and bassist Jesper Lundgaard. Raney performs two originals (including "Walking the Duck"), "Theme for Ernie" and numbers by Benny Golson, John Coltrane and Sam Rivers ("Beatrice"). Excellent modern mainstream straight-ahead jazz. ~ Scott Yanow https://www.allmusic.com/album/lazy-bird-mw0000186398

Personnel: Doug Raney – guitar; Bernt Rosengren – tenor saxophone; Ben Besiakov – piano; Jesper Lundgaard – bass; Ole Jacob Hansen – drums

Lazy Bird

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Doug Raney Sextet - Meeting The Tenors

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 47:57
Size: 109.8 MB
Styles: Guitar jazz, Mainstream jazz
Year: 1984/1994
Art: Front

[7:45] 1. Up In Quincy's Room
[8:57] 2. Blues For Bart
[6:54] 3. Waltz Number One
[7:36] 4. Arrival
[7:23] 5. Lover Man
[9:19] 6. The Night Has A Thousand Eyes

Bass – Jesper Lundgaard; Drums – Ole Jacob Hansen; Flute – Bernt Rosengren; Guitar – Doug Raney; Piano – Horace Parlan; Tenor Saxophone – Bernt Rosengren, Ferdinand Povel. Recorded April 29, 1983 in Monster, The Netherlands by Max Bolleman.

This marvellous Bebop record is musical reference for any listener. The piano solo and comping are instructive, the tenors are didactic and the guitar edificatory , all extraordinary !!! ~Alvaro Da Silva

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Freddie Redd - Freddie Redd & His International Jazz Connection

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 74:17
Size: 170.0 MB
Styles: Piano jazz
Year: 1998
Art: Front

[ 9:34] 1. Speak Of The Blues
[ 7:42] 2. Don't Lose The Blues
[10:16] 3. Waltzin' In
[ 8:40] 4. Emily Reno
[ 8:22] 5. Let's Split
[ 7:46] 6. That Dancin' Man
[ 9:49] 7. I'm Gonna Be Happy
[12:04] 8. And Time Marches On

Freddie Redd is a world class jazz composer and pianist. Since his emergence as composer of the score for Jack Gelber's harrowingly exact play, The Connection, winner of three off-broadway awards, Freddie Redd has finally been gaining some of the recognition that has eluded him for much of his playing career. Freddie was born in New York, May 29th, 1928. His inspiration to play began while serving in the Armed Forces. By 1953, Freddie had joined Cootie Williams and spent a stimulating year traveling mostly through the South. Back in New York, Freddie started working with vibist Joe Roland and began to be heard quite often at Birdland's informal Monday night sessions. In 1954, Freddie was with Art Blakey. Shortly after, he was touring Sweden with Rolf Ericson and also was part of Charlie Mingus's Jazz workshop in 1956. Freddie has been at the Living Theatre on Sixth Avenue ever since. Freddie Redd was right in the middle of the NYC bop scene and was privy to the likes of Bird,Bud Powell, Dizzy and Monk.

"In the summer of 1956, I toured Sweden as a member of an all-star, Swedish-American jazz group that included jazz vocalist Ernestine Anderson. In July of 1991, I was invited to the Pori Jazz Festival, and while there I becoame aware that Sweden was just an overnight ferry ride away. My wife and I went to Stockholm, and I met the artists with whom I wanted to work. Thus the International Jazz Connection was born. Each and every take is a first take. What you will hear is just half of what we recorded that day. It was simply amazing how these artists - Krister Andersson, Maffy Falay, Tobjorn Hultkranz, and Gilbert Matthews, Bernt Rosengren, Bengt Stark, and Andres Ulberg - came together and created magic." ~FR

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Arne Domnérus & Bernt Rosengren - Face To Face

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 1999
File: MP3@256K/s
Time: 67:37
Size: 127,5 MB
Art: Front

(6:00)  1. Out Of Nowhere
(4:56)  2. Body And Soul
(5:47)  3. But Not For Me
(5:48)  4. Star Dust
(3:11)  5. That Tired Old Routine Called Love
(4:40)  6. St Louis Blues
(4:02)  7. My Old Flame
(6:39)  8. I Cover The Waterfront
(4:43)  9. Lover Man
(5:17) 10. Just Friends
(5:36) 11. Just One Of Those Things
(4:41) 12. What Kind Of Fool Am I
(6:09) 13. It Don't Mean A Thing

Swedish-born saxophonist Arne Domnérus looms large in the annals of European jazz his breakthrough performance at the Paris Jazz Fair of 1949 is widely cited as the tipping point of the Scandinavian bop movement. Born in Stockholm on December 20, 1924, Domnérus studied clarinet as a child and made his professional debut during the early '40s, playing alto sax in popular dance bands led by Lulle Ellboj and Simon Brehm. By 1942 he led his own group and made his recorded debut in 1945, honing an urbane, sophisticated style that nevertheless possessed an urgency often absent from the cool, remote tone often associated with Swedish jazz. American icons Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie were both in attendance for Domnérus 1949 Paris festival gig, a performance which served notice that players of European descent could offer their own authoritative interpretations of music largely considered an African-American phenomenon Parker was so impressed that he signed Domnérus for the Scandinavian tour he mounted a year later. Throughout the '50s Domnérus headlined the Stockholm jazz club Nalen, often appearing alongside trumpeter Rolf Ericson and baritone saxophonist Lars Gullin (who both turn up in the 1952 short film Arne Domnérus Spelar). Domnérus also joined Stockholm locals including pianist Bengt Hallberg for a landmark 1953 Swedish tour in support of American trumpeters Clifford Brown and Quincy Jones. From 1956 to 1965 Domnérus served as a member of Harry Arnold's Swedish Radio Big Band, continuing on with its successor Radiojazzgruppen through 1978 concurrently he wrote for television and films, most notably scoring 1966's Nattlek, a film produced by Mai Zetterling and based on her own novel. Domnérus' 1977 LP Jazz at the Pawnshop proved an unprecedented hit, selling more than half a million copies upon its original release a year later, he returned with Duets for Duke, a collaboration with Hallberg that captures both men at the zenith of their artistry. While remaining true to his bop roots, Domnérus cited traditional Scandinavian folk music as a growing influence throughout the later chapters of his career, and from the '70s on he regularly performed live in churches, inspired by Duke Ellington's own sacred concerts. He also toured the U.S. and Japan, and recorded with American notables including Clark Terry, James Moody and Jimmy Rowles. After several years in poor health, Domnérus died in Stockholm on September 2, 2008 at the age of 83. ~ Jason Ankeny http://www.allmusic.com/artist/arne-domn%C3%A9rus-mn0000075504/biography

Greatly influenced by Sonny Rollins, Bernt Rosengren has been one of Sweden's most respected tenor saxmen since the 1950s. The big-toned, hard-blowing improviser was 19 when he started to make a name for himself in Scandinavia as a member of the quintet Jazz Club 57, and at 21, he was hired to represent Sweden in the Newport Jazz Band in the U.S. In 1961, his tenor was heard in American director Roman Polanski's debut film, Knife in the Water. Over the years, several of Rosengren's albums topped Swedish jazz polls, including Stockholm Dues in 1965, Improvisations in 1969, and Notes From the Underground in 1974. It was during the mid-'60s that Rosengren played alongside trumpeter Thad Jones in a sextet led by American pianist George Russell, who was living in Europe at the time. Although he started out playing hard bop and never gave it up, he got more into post-bop experimentation in the late '60s, when trumpeter Don Cherry was in his quartet, and the early to mid-'70s, when he combined jazz with Turkish and Middle Eastern folk as part of the group Sevda. In 1975, he played regularly with Swedish baritone saxman Lars Gullin and formed his own big band. The 1980s found Rosengren working with American hard boppers ranging from guitarist Doug Raney to pianist Horace Parlan. And in the 1990s, his activities included a jazz salute to the music from Porgy & Bess (The Bernt Rosengren Octet Plays George Gershwin's Porgy & Bess) and being featured prominently on the great Swedish trumpeter Rolf Ericson's final recording before his death, I Love You So (1995, Amigo). Turning 60 in 1997, Rosengren still played with the energy and stamina of a young man. ~ Alex Henderson http://www.allmusic.com/artist/bernt-rosengren-mn0000048240

Personnel:  Alto Saxophone – Arne Domnérus (tracks: 1,3,4,7-10,13);  Bass – Hans Backenroth;  Clarinet – Arne Domnérus (tracks: 2,12);  Drums – Aage Tanggaard;  Flute – Bernt Rosengren (tracks: 2);  Piano – Jan Lundgren;  Tenor Saxophone – Bernt Rosengren (tracks: 1,3,6-11,13)

Face To Face

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Bernt Rosengren - Surprise Party

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 1983
File: MP3@256K/s
Time: 41:39
Size: 76,5 MB
Art: Front

(5:46)  1. Solar
(8:08)  2. I Should Care
(7:37)  3. Dr. Jackle
(6:30)  4. Hip Walk
(8:03)  5. Embraceable You
(5:32)  6. Airegin

Greatly influenced by Sonny Rollins, Bernt Rosengren has been one of Sweden's most respected tenor saxmen since the 1950s. The big-toned, hard-blowing improviser was 19 when he started to make a name for himself in Scandinavia as a member of the quintet Jazz Club 57, and at 21, he was hired to represent Sweden in the Newport Jazz Band in the U.S. In 1961, his tenor was heard in American director Roman Polanski's debut film, Knife in the Water. Over the years, several of Rosengren's albums topped Swedish jazz polls, including Stockholm Dues in 1965, Improvisations in 1969, and Notes From the Underground in 1974. It was during the mid-'60s that Rosengren played alongside trumpeter Thad Jones in a sextet led by American pianist George Russell, who was living in Europe at the time. Although he started out playing hard bop and never gave it up, he got more into post-bop experimentation in the late '60s, when trumpeter Don Cherry was in his quartet, and the early to mid-'70s, when he combined jazz with Turkish and Middle Eastern folk as part of the group Sevda. In 1975, he played regularly with Swedish baritone saxman Lars Gullin and formed his own big band. The 1980s found Rosengren working with American hard boppers ranging from guitarist Doug Raney to pianist Horace Parlan. And in the 1990s, his activities included a jazz salute to the music from Porgy & Bess (The Bernt Rosengren Octet Plays George Gershwin's Porgy & Bess) and being featured prominently on the great Swedish trumpeter Rolf Ericson's final recording before his death, I Love You So (1995, Amigo). Turning 60 in 1997, Rosengren still played with the energy and stamina of a young man. ~ Alex Henderson  https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/bernt-rosengren/id110728495#fullText

Personnel:  Tenor Saxophone – Bernt Rosengren;  Bass – Jesper Lundgård;  Drums – Aage Tanggaard;  Guitar – Doug Raney;  Piano – Horace Parlan. 

Surprise Party

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