Carin Lundin Quintet - Babble

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:00
Size: 114.5 MB
Styles: Vocal jazz
Year: 2000/2011
Art: Front

[3:29] 1. Babble
[4:43] 2. Am I Blue
[3:39] 3. Exactly Like You
[4:34] 4. Little Lily
[3:36] 5. Tea For Two
[5:27] 6. In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning
[4:47] 7. Mr. Nice Guy
[4:33] 8. Lover Come Back To Me
[4:55] 9. Nothing
[5:43] 10. It Might As Well Be Spring
[4:29] 11. Your Love Was Sprung On Me

Bass – Mattias Welin; Drums, Percussion – Jonas Holgersson; Piano – Mathias Algotsson; Trumpet – Johan Setterlind; Vocals – Carin Lundin.

Carin Lundin is a class act, one of Sweden's best jazz singers. She hangs in there year on year, ably fending off the challenge of newer arrivals, without ever getting the full recognition she so richly deserves.

Babble

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Carin Lundin - What Now My Love?

Size: 102,0 MB
Time: 39:25
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2016
Styles: Jazz Vocals
Art: Front

01. Get Happy (2:51)
02. What Now My Love (4:56)
03. Second Time Around (3:59)
04. I've Got A Heart Full Of Rhythm (3:24)
05. Do Be Mama (4:32)
06. Baby, Won't You Please Come Home (4:01)
07. I Didn't Know What Time It Was (4:58)
08. Peel Me A Grape (3:45)
09. Just Squeeze Me, But Please Don't Tease Me (3:46)
10. Tribute To Miss A (3:08)

Carin Lundin is a class act, one of Sweden's best jazz singers. She hangs in there year on year, ably fending off the challenge of newer arrivals, without ever getting the full recognition she so richly deserves.

In 2005 her disk, "Songs We All Recognize" was named one of the year's best albums by the national newspaper Svenska Dagbladet. In 2007 she won the national Jazz Museum's Anita O'Day prize and in 2010 her album "Smulor och Parafraser (Crumbs and Paraphrases)" made it to fifth place in jazz magazine Orkester Journalen's Gyllene Skivan (Golden Record) reader's poll.

For this, her fourth album, a collection of standards and two of her own songs, she is accompanied by some of the Nordic nation's best young session men, led by the talented pianist Mathias Algotsson.

The title track is based on the 1961 French song, "Et Maintenant" by Gilbert Bécaud, with English lyrics penned by Carl Sigman. It was most famously performed by Elvis Presley for a live audience of a billion people in his satellite show Aloha From Hawaii, beamed to 43 countries via INTELSAT.

Lundin's version features a fine trumpet solo by Johan Setterlind, who—appropriately—goes one better on "The Second Time Around."

Dicken Hedrenius contributes excellent trombone solos on the old Louis Armstrong song "I've Got A Heart Full Of Rhythm" and "Peel Me A Grape."

The latter, along with Lundin's version of "I Didn't Know What Time It Was," is right up there with the best of them. So too the up-tempo numbers "Get Happy," on which she displays her O'Day credentials, and that fine old chestnut "Baby, Won't You Please Come Home."

Of the originals, "Do Be Mama" is a light-hearted meditation by a mother watching her children growing up and becoming independent. Lundin says, "I suddenly have so much time. Maybe I should be happy about it, but I miss being with and taking care of my kids."

"Tribute To Miss A" is a heartfelt look at the loss of a friend, at the age of 37 hit by a truck while cycling in central Stockholm—"While a lot seems faded, her precious tone lingers on." ~Chris Mosey

Personnel: Carin Lundin: vocals; Johan Setterlind: trumpet; Dicken Hedrenius: trombone; Mathias Algotsson: piano; Mattias Wein: bass; Daniel Fredriksson: drums.

What Now My Love?

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Carin Lundin - Songs That We All Recognize

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 46:57
Size: 107.5 MB
Styles: Jazz vocals, Standards
Year: 2005
Art: Front

[4:00] 1. Ain't That Love
[6:04] 2. Jumbo Little Girl Blue
[3:15] 3. Swing Time Pick Yourself Up
[3:59] 4. Secret Love
[4:23] 5. Take Your Time Blues
[3:45] 6. Love Me Or Leave Me
[5:14] 7. I'll Be Around
[3:33] 8. Them There Eyes
[3:49] 9. Available
[5:07] 10. You Look Like Someone
[3:41] 11. Bells Are Ringing The Party's Over

The title promises musical comfort food, and that's what this album delivers. No more, no less. Songs That We All Recognize is a well-assembled album of mostly standards that takes no chances, offers no unexpected curves and avoids any disappointments for listeners seeking low-key acoustic straight-ahead jazz. Swedish vocalist Carin Lundin's third album is in the same league with discs such as Diana Krall's The Girl In The Other Room, although Lundin doesn't have quite the same velvet quality to her vocals or arrangements.

Lundin occupies the lower end of the midrange without much variance, sounding more professional than passionate, which is not necessarily a drawback for listeners who are into an even-handed approach. But her treatments can sound rather sterile compared to the original versions and other interpreted arrangements. Perhaps it shouldn't be surprising the most attention-getting songs turn out to be Lundin originals. "Take Your Time Blues" is plodding in pace, but strong in intensity as she and Lundgren both add a dash of audio color to their pitch, giving the sense a real conversation is occurring. "Available" is a dark ballad where Lundgren and bassist Mattias Welin knock a few dents in the passive listening experience with some low-end rumbles.

Songs That We All Recognize is solid enough, fulfilling its apparent intent, but the recording falls in a vast middle ground. Those familiar with similar albums will be hard-pressed to find enough uniqueness or artistry to make it worthy of adding to a collection. It's worth noting there are absolutely no Swedish qualities to this album, a disappointment for those used to Scandinavian jazz on the intellectual cutting edge, but perhaps a benefit to her fellow countrymen if they haven't had ample chance to hear standards stripped of modernistic accents. ~Mark Sabbatini

Carin Lundin: vocals; Jan Lundgren: piano; Mattias Welin: bass; Daniel Fredriksson: drums.

Songs That We All Recognize

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Carin Lundin - From Dusk To Dawn / Smulor Och Parafraser

Album: From Dusk To Dawn
Size: 113,5 MB
Time: 48:27
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1997
Styles: Jazz Vocals
Art: Front

01. Side By Side (3:11)
02. Ask And Answer (2:37)
03. Dream (4:14)
04. Grandma (3:43)
05. Gravy Waltz (3:20)
06. It's Your Colour (4:39)
07. Too Many (5:27)
08. The King And I - Hello Young Lovers (3:20)
09. We (4:30)
10. You're Driving Me Crazy (2:59)
11. After You've Gone (4:46)
12. Finally (5:36)

Carin Lundin is scarcely a household name, even in her homeland. Except perhaps in the town of Växjö, in the wooded province of Småland, where she grew up. Växjö has an excellent musical reputation, being home to the Musica Vitae Chamber Orchestra. Lundin studied piano at the local music school before, at 17, deciding on a career as a vocalist.

This included a stint as a singing waitress at a Stockholm nightspot, during which she inadvertently tipped molten wax over a male customer. Overcoming such inauspicious beginnings, she went on to sing with nearly all the greats of Swedish jazz Rolf Ericsson, Arne Domnérus and Putte Wickman, to name but three then in 2007 won Sweden's Anita O'Day Prize.~Chris Mosey

From Dusk To Dawn

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Album: Smulor Och Parafraser
Size: 95,7 MB
Time: 40:32
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2008
Styles: Jazz Vocals
Art: Front

01. Kylskapspoesi (2:56)
02. Jag Kan Se Dig Nar (4:07)
03. Ramanagaram (3:51)
04. Min Vals (4:11)
05. Han Ar Bra Tokig Anda (2:52)
06. Langtans Samba (3:18)
07. I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby (3:44)
08. Oh Oh Baby (3:00)
09. Histoire D'un Amour (3:27)
10. Nar Min Van (3:56)
11. Himlen Ar Av Stjarnor Full (2:11)
12. Marionetterna (2:56)

With this album Carin Lundin lays claim to the territory previously occupied in Swedish jazz by the late, great Monica Zetterlund. It was obviously made very much with an eye to the domestic market, with all but two of the 12 numbers in Swedish. However, Smulor och Parafraser (Crumbs and Paraphrases) is already proving something of a hit in—would you believe?—Japan. Rightly so: aided by the very able Johan Setterlind (trumpet and percussion) and Erik Söderlind on guitar, Lundin has come up with a fine set that examines her roots in the mainstream of Swedish popular music and which swings softly but surely from start to finish... which is a language anyone can understand.

It comes as something of a surprise. Carin Lundin is scarcely a household name, even in her homeland. Except perhaps in the town of Växjö, in the wooded province of Småland, where she grew up. Växjö has an excellent musical reputation, being home to the Musica Vitae Chamber Orchestra. Lundin studied piano at the local music school before, at 17, deciding on a career as a vocalist. This included a stint as a singing waitress at a Stockholm nightspot, during which she inadvertently tipped molten wax over a male customer. Overcoming such inauspicious beginnings, she went on to sing with nearly all the greats of Swedish jazz—Rolf Ericsson, Arne Domnérus and Putte Wickman, to name but three—then in 2007 won Sweden's Anita O'Day Prize.

Lundin displays far more warmth than the ultra cool Ms. O'Day ever did. And she is refreshingly unpretentious. "Han Är Bra Tokig Ändå"—"He's Funny That Way" in Swedish—and Lundin's own "Kylskåpspoesi"—Refrigerator Poetry—both hit the spot. As does, strangely enough, "Längtans Samba," an original by Swedish cabaret star Lill Lindfors. Lundin recalls as a teenager hearing the glittery Lindfors sing the number at a provincial dance hall—"The floor shook when she got to the chorus," she says. Her own version is more laid back: she pays tribute but stops shyly and attractively short of attempting to make the song her own.

"Jag kan ser dig när..." is the local version of "I'll Be Seeing You," a hit in the 1950s, "Oh oh Baby" is from an obscure EP released in 1960 and "Ramanagaram" dates from 1973. The two non-Swedish tracks are "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" in English and French vocalist Dalida's "Histoire d'un Amour."

But the standout track has to be "När Min Vän (When My Friend)." This poignant, bluesy ballad about love lost and found was Sweden's entry for the 1961 Eurovision Song Contest. It was far too good to win so few people remember it but it was sung by none other than Monica Zetterlund.

With it Lundin comes full circle.

Personnel: Carin Lundin: vocals; Johan Setterlind: trumpet, percussion; Erik Söderlind, guitar; Mathias Algotsson, keyboards; Mattias Welin, bass; Daniel Fredriksson, drums.

Smulor Och Parafraser

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