Showing posts with label Hot Club of Sweden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hot Club of Sweden. Show all posts

Monday, October 21, 2013

Connie Evingson & the Hot Club of Sweden - Stockholm Sweetnin'

Styles: Gypsy Jazz, Hot Club, Vocal
Label: Minnehaha Music
Released: 2006
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 146,7 MB
Time: 64:04
Art: full

1. Stockholm Sweetnin' - 4:24
2. It's Alright with Me - 4:23
3. Lover Man - 5:10
4. Comes Love - 4:02
5. Swingin' the Blues - 3:44
6. Besame Mucho - 6:36
7. If I had You - 4:37
8. Windmills of your Mind - 4:01
9. I Can't Give you ANything but Love - 2:55
10. In a Sentimental Mood - 4:24
11. Throw it Away - 3:55
12. Out of Nowhere - 3:26
13. Si Tu Savais - 5:16
14. After You've Gone - 3:10
15. Autumn in Kokkola - 3:55

Personnel:
Connie Evingson - vocals

The Hot Club of Sweden
Gustav Lundgren - guitars
Andreas Öberg - guitars
Hampus Lundgren - bass

special guests
Fredrik Lindborg - tenor saxophone
Marc Anderson - percussion
Tony Baluff - clarinet
Dan Chouinard - accordion
Jay Epstein - drums
Joan Griffith - Spanish guitar intro on Besame Mucho

Notes: With only email for introductions and planning, Connie and The Hot Club of Sweden met at Real Music Studios in Stockholm in January, 2006 and recorded 15 tunes in 2 1/2 days. "The recording process was magic," she said later. "It's the most enjoyable time I've ever had in the studio." And the result, Stockholm Sweetnin,' is both stunning and uniquely Connie. Hot Club of Sweden guitarists Gustav Lundgren and Andreas Öberg and bassist Hampus Lundgren form the core rhythm section, with brilliant solo turns by each player. Guest artists from both sides of the Atlantic add their unique voices on saxophone, clarinet, accordion and percussion, but the most distinctive voice belongs to Connie, as vocalist, arranger, and lyricist (on Öberg's "Autumn in Kokkola").

Vocalist Connie Evingson is known for taking divergent musical paths. Her eclectic catalog of recordings for Minnehaha Music covers such varied themes as Peggy Lee, the Beatles, jazz elders, and most recently "hot club" music a la Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli (Gypsy in My Soul, '04). But rather than taking another divergent turn, Connie's continuing love affair with gypsy jazz and a chance meeting with a young hot club group from Sweden inspired her to delve deeper into the Django style before moving in another direction. "I had already planned my next project (a collection of Dave Frishberg tunes, with Frishberg at the piano)," says Evingson, "but when I heard The Hot Club of Sweden, I realized I wasn't done exploring the gypsy jazz genre."
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Stockholm Sweetnin'