Hannah Svensson - Places and Dreams

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2019
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 51:25
Size: 118,8 MB
Art: Front

(5:22)  1. Places and Dreams
(5:12)  2. Beautiful Day
(4:22)  3. Woodstock
(4:45)  4. Friday Afternoon
(3:57)  5. Honeysuckle Rose
(5:28)  6. Something in Return
(3:58)  7. Catch the Stars
(4:10)  8. Not Meant to Be
(4:56)  9. Let Go
(3:58) 10. Malibu Song
(5:12) 11. När natten blir dag

Critically acclaimed singer and songwriter Hannah Svensson releases a new album: ""Places and dreams"" which consists of newly composed material by Hannah as well as interpretations by Joni Mitchell and Dave Castle. The music is characterized by strong melodies and the material on the new album is a meeting between jazz and pop harmonies with plenty of room for improvisation. The group's musical influences range from jazz, pop and blues where their own sound goes like a theme through each song. The album as well as live concerts feature four distinguished jazz musicians: Jan Lundgren (Piano) Ewan Svensson (guitar) Matz Nilsson (bass) and Zoltan Czörsz (drums) who together with Hannah form a fantastic group. Hannah Svensson paves her own way and with five albums established herself as one of our most appreciated jazz singers. She is heard in many different combinations and contexts both in Sweden and internationally. I see music as a lifelong journey and with this album I have landed in something new that has always been within me. Some of the songs are written almost ten years ago, they have been lying there, waiting to be picked up at the right time and context. ""Places and dreams"" is a summary of things that have inspired my life. A dream can take me to new places, but a place can also create dreams, whether it is far away on the beach in Malibu, a beautiful day in the Gothenburg archipelago or a Friday afternoon in Copenhagen. (Hannah Svensson) ~ Editorial Reviews https://www.amazon.com/Places-Dreams-Hannah-Svensson/dp/B07WV6DCTH

Places and Dreams

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Ewan Svensson - Sometime Ago

Size: 105,3 MB
Time: 45:17
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2018
Styles: Jazz: Guitar Jazz
Art: Front

01. I’ll Remember April (2:47)
02. We’ll Be Together Again (4:29)
03. It’s You Or Noone (2:28)
04. If I Should Lose You (3:09)
05. Falling In Love With Love (3:15)
06. Here’s That Rainy Day (4:42)
07. Sometime Ago (3:49)
08. I Thougt About You (3:17)
09. When I Fall In Love (4:21)
10. I Remember You (3:25)
11. Skylark (3:36)
12. Autumn Leaves (2:56)
13. Blue In Green (2:56)

"Sometime Ago" lets us take part in Ewan Svensson entirely on his own. At home in his studio, without pretentious preparations and artistic arrangements, he played with a bunch of inexhaustible standards derived from the American songbook. And here and there he has, afterwards, carefully and with indifferent taste, added one and another extraordinary sentence, which means that he thus plays duet with himself. Among the 13 melodies Ewan has chosen as the basis for his most remarkable tone embroideries are Hoagy Carmichael's beautiful "Skylark", Jimmy van Heusens "I Thought About You" and "Here's That Rainy Day" and Robin Raingers "If I Should Lose You ". But the best is finally: Bill Evans and Miles Davis "Blue in Green", a classic that appeared for the first time on Miles immortal album "Kind of Blue". Ewan gives the very own and very personal interpretation.
So lucky I do not think I've been out of a guitar album since I purchased Joe Pass's first solo album on the Pablo label just over 40 years ago! Ewan Svensson, like Pass, is a virtuoso of the highest and most precious dignity. Most things seem to be so easy to play and everything is so rhythmic, harmonious and melodically refined that you get really happy.
"Sometime Ago" should be included in the standard equipment of every music school where they teach guitar play. And that all jazz guitarists should soon get the album is a matter of course!
2017 Best Swedish Jazz Album? ~Jan Olsson

Sometime Ago

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