Lina Nyberg & Bohuslän Big Band - The World´s A Stage

Styles: Vocal, Big Band
Year: 2023
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 55:17
Size: 127,1 MB
Art: Front

( 4:45) 1. Prelude To A Dance
( 4:31) 2. The Dance
(12:19) 3. A Walk In The Park
( 4:51) 4. Royal Rumble
( 4:59) 5. I Apologize
( 7:24) 6. Enough
( 9:38) 7. A Wonderful Morning
( 6:45) 8. Close

Lina Nyberg is one of Sweden’s most creative and innovative jazz singers and contemporary composers. For more than 20 years she has been attracting consistent and widespread attention, mainly in Scandinavia, but also in many other parts of the world.

Lina Nyberg was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1970 and raised in an artistic home, both parents being artists/illustrators. After gratuating from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm in 1993 she released her first CD Close (Prophone records). A duo recording with late jazz pianist Esbjörn Svensson. An instant success and Swedish jazz classic.

As a solo artist she has been releasing 23 albums and tours the world with her band since 15 years Lina Nyberg Band: Cecilia Persson piano, David Stackenäs guitar, Josef Kallerdahl bass, Peter Danemo drums. She has received awards as Lars Gullin prize, She was honored with the Swedish Royal Academy of music Jazz prize 2016, and was selected to be a member in 2020.

As a composer she has writing works on commission from big bands, string quartets other chamber settings and symphony orchestras. She is the composer of the Swedish Radio music channel P2 signature. One of her most recent work is the album trilogy with works for big band Sirenades 2014, for stringquartet Aerials 2016 and for symphony orchestra Terrestrial 2017

The trilogy confirmed her as one of the most exciting composers in Scandinavia right now connecting the rhythmic and harmonic parts of her European jazz background with a contemporary classical language. In 2020 the album “the Clouds” was released with her new all star constellation, Lina Nyberg Tentet. In 2021 she reconnected with the quintet for the album Anniverse (Hoob records) and 2022 her collaboration and commissioned work with Bohuslän big band "the World's a Stage" marks her 30th anniversary as a recording artist. Swedish Jazz Grammy 1995 Swedish Jazzmusician of the year 2011 (Swedish Radio), Lars Gullin Award 2014, Album of the year (Gyllene skivan) 2017, Jan Johansson Award 2021, among others.
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/musicians/lina-nyberg

The World´s A Stage

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Lina Nyberg & Jacob Karlzon - Temper

Styles: Vocal

Year: 1997

File: MP3@320K/s

Time: 46:35

Size: 106,8 MB

Art: Front

(3:53)  1. One More Hymn

(4:30)  2. It Might As Well Be Spring

(4:49)  3. Sometime Ago

(5:06)  4. Invitation

(5:18)  5. Embraceable You

(4:28)  6. What If

(3:53)  7. On What A Beautiful Morning

(5:36)  8. CC Rider

(5:17)  9. Now At Last

(3:40) 10. Still Alive

Lina Nyberg was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1970 and raised in an artistic home. She discovered jazz at age 14 and at 18 years of age Lina began singing with Swedish senior jazz stars such as Bernt Rosengren, Nisse Sandström, Fredrik Norén Band, and others. In 1990 Lina built her own first constellation “Lina Nyberg Kvintett” consisting of Per “Texas” Johansson, Esbjörn Svensson, Dan Berglund and Mikel Ulfberg. After gratuating from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm as a Master of Fine Arts in 1993 she released her first CD- Close (Prophone records). A duo recording with late pianist Esbjörn Svensson. An instant success and Swedish jazz classic. This was also the beginning of a very fruitful cooperation with the brilliant producer and owner of Prophone records, late Erland Boëthius. Lina and her quintet received the prestigious Swedish Grammis award for her CD “when the smile shines through” in 1995. “OPEN” released in 1998 and recorded with bassist Palle Danielsson and pianist Anders Persson, among others, was nominated for a Swedish Grammis and received raving reviews. More ..http://www.linanyberg.se/?page_id=45

Temper

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Lina Nyberg - Smile

Styles: Jazz, Vocal
Year: 2000
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 48:45
Size: 112,0 MB
Art: Front

(3:15)  1. Smile
(4:22)  2. Young And Foolish
(3:49)  3. Body And Soul
(4:28)  4. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
(3:01)  5. 'S Wonderful
(5:19)  6. Wild Is the Wind
(3:57)  7. If I Were a Bell
(4:40)  8. How Long Has This Been Going On?
(2:57)  9. Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year
(4:26) 10. Good Morning Heartache
(4:24) 11. All The Way
(4:02) 12. Golden Slumbers

As a general proposition, Sweden produces more good jazz artists per capita than any other European country, or so it seems. And vocalists are no exception. Song stylist (and she is a stylist) Lina Nyberg follows in the footsteps and joins such notable vocalists as Monica Zetterlund, Jeanette Lindstrom, and Nannie Porres. Nyberg cites Zetterlund and Porres as inspirations along with American singers Bessie Smith, Ray Charles, Jimmy Rushing, and Nancy Wilson, whose influence is evident in Nyberg's delivery and phrasing. The Swedish singer has an affinity for using one-word titles for her albums.

Previous CDs were Temper, Close, and Open. Her quintet album won the 1995 Swedish Grammy Award for jazz. Now comes Smile with a program of 11 standards and one Beatles' song. But the standards are delivered in a manner that is at the same time atypical and entertaining. Nyberg has her way with melody as she modifies the accents and phrasing for each tune. This stylistic approach is not just a mere affectation, but a legitimate and effective interpretation device that shows a close camaraderie for lyrics, and it works well. Her pronunciation of certain words is exaggerated, again for effect. She can be ardent and little girl sounding.

The usually mournful "Good Morning Heartache" is done in a detached, straightforward way without any indication of regret. This tune also demonstrates the novel arrangements, another compelling feature of the album. Nyberg comes in with just Göran Klinghagen's guitar behind her, then Anders Persson's piano enters, followed again by guitar with Nyberg's voice playing the horn part. Unique arrangements and sounds are possible given the unusual instrumental configuration: piano, guitar, bass, and a cello with two violins. The dark, cloudy sound of the cello contrasts with the clarity of Nyberg's voice on "Wild Is the Wind." She also takes the time to sing the verse of several of the tunes. But it is the feeling of storytelling Nyberg conveys as she delivers the words. They're not treated as a bunch of letters and syllables, but as image creators that are to be transported to the listener. This album is like hearing a picture book and is recommended. ~ Dave Nathan  http://www.allmusic.com/album/smile-mw0000969663

Personnel:  Lina Nyberg: vocals, Anders Persson: piano, Palle Danielsson: bass, Göran Klinghagen: guitar, Henrik Frendin: viola, Daniel Möller: violin, Mats Olofsson: cello

Smile

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Lina Nyberg - So Many Stars

Styles: Vocal
Year: 1996
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 66:23
Size: 152,3 MB
Art: Front

(4:29)  1. Suddenly
(4:45)  2. So Many Stars
(4:22)  3. The End
(5:39)  4. I'll Be Seeing You
(4:34)  5. Nothing New
(6:50)  6. My Castle
(5:11)  7. For All We Know
(6:33)  8. Once I Was Like You
(2:23)  9. On the Street Where You Live
(5:06) 10. Going to Chicago
(7:09) 11. Lost But Still
(5:46) 12. Ordinary Day
(3:29) 13. Alone

Lina Nyberg was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1970 and raised in an artistic home. She discovered jazz at age 14 and at 18 years of age Lina began singing with Swedish senior jazz stars such as Bernt Rosengren, Nisse Sandström, Fredrik Norén Band, and others. In 1990 Lina built her own first constellation “Lina Nyberg Kvintett” consisting of Per “Texas” Johansson, Esbjörn Svensson, Dan Berglund and Mikel Ulfberg. After gratuating from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm as a Master of Fine Arts in 1993 she released her first CD- Close (Prophone records). A duo recording with late pianist Esbjörn Svensson. An instant success and Swedish jazz classic. This was also the beginning of a very fruitful cooperation with the brilliant producer and owner of Prophone records, late Erland Boëthius.

Lina and her quintet received the prestigious Swedish Grammis award for her CD “when the smile shines through” in 1995. “OPEN” released in 1998 and recorded with bassist Palle Danielsson and pianist Anders Persson, among others, was nominated for a Swedish Grammis and received raving reviews.Over the years Lina Nyberg has collaborated with various jazz musicians such as John Taylor, Marilyn Crispell, Palle Danielsson and Rigmor Gustafsson. She has toured in Scandinavia, parts of Europe, Vietnam, Canada and Brazil. A couple of times Lina also has toured Japan with Yasuhito Moris Scandinavian Connection. The Brazilian connection is also very strong to Lina and she has produced two cds dedicated to Brazil and its vast musical landscape, Brasilien (Prophone) 2003 with world famous bassplayer Anders Jormin and Brasil Big Bom 2007 (Caprice records) with big band and the great Swedish saxophonist Magnus Lindgren.

Lina Nyberg is one of Sweden’s most creative and innovative jazz singers. For more than 15 years she has been attracting consistent and widespread attention, mostly in Scandinavia, but also in other parts of the world. As a solo artist and producer she has released 16 CDs. Her main constellation right now is Lina Nyberg Band featuring an all-star band: Cecilia Persson, piano, David Stackenäs, guitar, Josef Kallerdahl, bass and Peter Danemo, drums.In September 2011 Lina Nyberg and her band released their latest Cd Palaver (Moserobie Records). The Cd recieved fantastic reviews and was selected by Chicago Reader writer Peter Margasak as the Vocal CD of the year. The music is a blend of influences from Brazilian Tropicalia, European Free form, modern classical composers, the American songbook and old school jazz.

In March 2011 Lina Nyberg was awarded the prestigious Jazzmusician of the Year-prize by the Swedish Radio and in October 2011 she was the Guest of Honour at the Umeå International Jazz Festival.2014 she released her latest CD “The Sirenades” a project including composing music for Norrbotten Big Band on commission and her own quintet. The Cd got a wonderful reception from the press.She was awarded the prestigeous “Lars Gullin Award” and also the Bert Levin award of 75.000 swedish kronor. Lina was nominated as the Jazz composer of the year by the Swedish Radio Jazzkatten jury. http://www.linanyberg.se/?page_id=45

So Many Stars

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Lina Nyberg, Daniel Karlsson - The Night and the Music

Styles: Vocal And Piano Jazz
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:22
Size: 113,9 MB
Art: Front

(4:09) 1. Night and Day
(4:51) 2. Let's Face the Music and Dance
(4:26) 3. Red Sails in the Sunset
(5:44) 4. 'Round Midnight
(4:22) 5. Stardust
(3:54) 6. Dream a Little Dream of Me
(4:44) 7. Sure on This Shining Night
(3:36) 8. You and the Night and the Music
(4:09) 9. In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning
(4:36) 10. Good Morning Starshine
(4:46) 11. I Like the Sunrise

Two of Sweden's most successful jazz musicians perform together for the first time. Singer Lina Nyberg and pianist Daniel Karlsson have both had brilliant careers in Sweden and internationally through the years. April 30, 2021 the duo album The Night and the Music will be released, containing a string of famous songs inspired by nighttime. A number of jazz standards and evergreens has been carefully selected, all taking us step by step through evening, night and finally to early morning. You will hear classics like Red sails in the sunset and Thelonius Monk's Round midnight combined with modern hits such as Goodmorning starshine from the musical Hair, but also Samuel Barber's famous composition of James Agee's poem Sure on this shining night. With these melodies, the duo creates an inspiring musical experience for the listener and discovers new worlds in the music. https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Lina-Nyberg/dp/B08YHZVB1T

Personnel: Lina Nyberg - Vocal; Daniel Karlsson - Piano.

The Night and the Music

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Lina Nyberg Meets Anders Persson & Yasuhito Mori - A Song Book

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2003
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 57:07
Size: 131,9 MB
Art: Front

(3:52)  1. Prologue
(4:38)  2. Them There Eyes
(5:41)  3. Autumn In New York
(3:21)  4. Very Early
(4:25)  5. Yesterdays
(4:15)  6. The Way You Look Tonight
(4:48)  7. You've Changed
(5:04)  8. Why Was I Born
(4:16)  9. Dindi
(5:08) 10. Ordinary Day
(3:46) 11. All The Things You Are
(4:23) 12. I'm Old Fashioned
(3:24) 13. Let's Begin

In the fall of 2017 the final majestic part of Lina Nybergs astonishing album trilogy about humanity, the world and music itself is to be released  “Terrestrial” (Hoob records). Lina has composed and arranged music for symphony orchestra (and her band) on commission from the NorrlandsOperan Symphony Orchestra in Umeå. The piece will have it’s first live performance at Umeå Jazz Festival in October 2017. Lina Nyberg is one of Sweden’s most creative and innovative jazz singers. For about 20 years she has been attracting consistent and widespread attention, starting with the debut in 1993 with the duo CD “Close” together with late pianist Esbjörn Svensson until now, about to release her 17th album. Since 2013 Lina has been working on this trilogy of albums, composing new music about our planet and the elements for different kinds of settings, exploring the art of instrumentation. In 2014 part one was released  “Sirenades” (music for big band and jazz quintet) and 2016 part 2 “Aerials” (music for string quartet and jazz quintet). Lina Nyberg was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1970 and raised in an artistic home. She discovered jazz at age 14 and at 18 years of age Lina began singing with Swedish senior jazz stars such as Bernt Rosengren, Nisse Sandström, Fredrik Norén Band, and others. In 1990 Lina built her own first constellation “Lina Nyberg Kvintett” consisting of Per “Texas” Johansson, Esbjörn Svensson, Dan Berglund and Mikel Ulfberg. After gratuating from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm as a Master of Fine Arts in 1993 she released her first CD- Close (Prophone records). 

A duo recording with late pianist Esbjörn Svensson. An instant success and Swedish jazz classic. This was also the beginning of a very fruitful cooperation with the brilliant producer and owner of Prophone records, late Erland Boëthius. Lina and her quintet received the prestigious Swedish Grammis award for her CD “when the smile shines through” in 1995. “OPEN” released in 1998 and recorded with bassist Palle Danielsson and pianist Anders Persson, among others, was nominated for a Swedish Grammis and received raving reviews. Over the years Lina Nyberg has collaborated with various jazz musicians such as John Taylor, Marilyn Crispell, Palle Danielsson and Rigmor Gustafsson. She has toured in Scandinavia, parts of Europe, Vietnam, Canada and Brazil. A couple of times Lina also has toured Japan with Yasuhito Moris Scandinavian Connection. The Brazilian connection is also very strong to Lina and she has produced two cds dedicated to Brazil and its vast musical landscape, Brasilien (Prophone) 2003 with world famous bassplayer Anders Jormin and Brasil Big Bom 2007 (Caprice records) with big band and the great Swedish saxophonist Magnus Lindgren. Lina Nyberg is one of Sweden’s most creative and innovative jazz singers. For more than 15 years she has been attracting consistent and widespread attention, mostly in Scandinavia, but also in other parts of the world. As a solo artist and producer she has released 17 CDs. Her main constellation right now is Lina Nyberg Band featuring an all-star band: Cecilia Persson, piano, David Stackenäs, guitar, Josef Kallerdahl, bass and Peter Danemo, drums.

In March 2011 Lina Nyberg was awarded the prestigious Jazzmusician of the Year-prize by the Swedish Radio and in October 2011 she was the Guest of Honour at the Umeå International Jazz Festival. 2014 she released the first part of her planned triology with new music about the world the elements and the music itself.  “The Sirenades” a project including composing music for Norrbotten Big Band on commission and her own quintet. The Cd got a wonderful reception from the press. In 2014 she was awarded the prestigeous “Lars Gullin Award” and also the Bert Levin award. Lina was nominated as the Jazz composer of the year by the Swedish Radio Jazzkatten jury. In March 2016 part two of the triology was released: “Aerials” . This time Lina sings of avians, pilots, winds and astronauts. The record includes commissioned work for string quartet as well as poetic and expressive interpretations of jazz standards as ”Fly me to the moon” and ”Bye bye Blackbird” with her regular band. The CD recieved raving reviews from major newspapers and jazzmagazines in Scandinavia at its release and was also given great attention in national TV and radio. In April 2016 Swedish national television is broadcasting an one hour program with Lina Nyberg recorded at her 25th anniversary as an artist at Jazzclub Fasching in Stockholm. In November 2016 she recieved the grand Jazz Prize from The Royal Swedish Academy of Music. In the fall of 2017 the final majestic part of the trilogy was released – “Terrestrial” (Hoob records). Lina has composed and arranged music for symphony orchestra (and her band) on commission from the NorrlandsOperan Symphony Orchestra in Umeå. The piece will have it’s first live performance at Umeå Jazz Festival October 26 2017. https://www.linanyberg.se/biography-2

A Song Book

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Lina Nyberg - Terrestrial

Size: 120,8+100,5 MB
Time: 51:47+39:37
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2017
Styles: Jazz Vocals
Art: Front

CD 1:
01. Milky Way (Feat. Norrlands Operan Symphony Orchestra) (6:01)
02. The Planet (Feat. Norrlands Operan Symphony Orchestra) (7:38)
03. Gravity (Feat. Norrlands Operan Symphony Orchestra) (5:49)
04. The Electra (Version For Symphony Orchestra) (Feat. Norrlands Operan Symphony Orchestra) (6:43)
05. Another World (Version For Symphony Orchestra) (Feat. Norrlands Operan Symphony Orchestra) (5:14)
06. Terrestrial I (Feat. Norrlands Operan Symphony Orchestra) (7:45)
07. Terrestrial II (Feat. Norrlands Operan Symphony Orchestra) (6:57)
08. Terrestrial III (Oh Humanity) (Feat. Norrlands Operan Symphony Orchestra) (5:38)

CD 2:
01. Lazy Afternoon (7:09)
02. Everyone Sang (3:42)
03. Undiu (5:43)
04. Entropia (6:46)
05. Ingrid (4:44)
06. Canto De Ossanha (7:14)
07. Another World (4:16)

In the fall of 2017 the final majestic part of Lina Nybergs astonishing album trilogy about humanity, the world and music itself is to be released – “Terrestrial”. Lina has composed and arranged music for symphony orchestra (and her band) on commission from the NorrlandsOperan Symphony Orchestra in Umeå. The piece will have it’s first live performance at Umeå Jazz Festival in October 2017.

Lina Nyberg is one of Sweden’s most creative and innovative jazz singers. For about 20 years she has been attracting consistent and widespread attention, starting with the debut in 1993 with the duo CD “Close” together with late pianist Esbjörn Svensson until now, about to release her 17th album. Since 2013 Lina has been working on this trilogy of albums, composing new music about our planet and the elements for different kinds of settings, exploring the art of instrumentation. In 2014 part one was released – “Sirenades” (music for big band and jazz quintet) and 2016 part 2 “Aerials” (music for string quartet and jazz quintet).

Terrestrial CD 1
Terrestrial CD 2

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Lina Nyberg - Aerials

Size: 103,0+107,5 MB
Time: 44:17+46:10
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2017
Styles: Jazz Vocals, Modern Jazz
Art: Front

CD 1:
01. Fly Me To The Moon (4:45)
02. Tico Tico No Fuba (5:13)
03. Where Flamingos Fly (5:38)
04. A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square (7:20)
05. Bye Bye Blackbird (5:50)
06. Skylark (3:56)
07. Migration (6:51)
08. Nightbird (4:41)

CD 2:
01. The Benu Bird (Feat. Vindla String Quartet) (3:43)
02. Everyone Sang (Feat. Vindla String Quartet) (4:29)
03. Chayka (Feat. Vindla String Quartet) (5:07)
04. The Phoenix (Feat. Vindla String Quartet) (4:11)
05. The Kite (Feat. Vindla String Quartet) (4:16)
06. Like A Sick Eagle (Feat. Vindla String Quartet) (4:24)
07. The Electra (Feat. Vindla String Quartet) (5:51)
08. Murmuration (Feat. Vindla String Quartet) (9:29)
09. Motacilla Alba (Feat. Vindla String Quartet) (4:36)

There are very few musicians who dare to expand their artistic vision with every new project as Swedish vocalist-songwriter-composer Lina Nyberg. Aerials, is the her second installment in a trilogy of albums that offers her unique perspective about the world, the elements and the music itself. Nyberg began the trilogy with the double album The Sirenades (Hoob, 2014), that featured her songs composed for her quintet and the Norrbotten Big Band, sketching poetic images of cyber-seas, monsters and waves. On Aerials Nyberg sings of avians—real and mythological birds—and raising her glance a bit higher and adding images of pilots, winds and astronauts. The aerial perspective gives Nyberg a musical look on our daily dilemmas, lives, relationships and our fragile planet from a distance. A highly personal perspective that may be more objective but also filled with solicitude.

Aerials is again a double album. Its first part, Space, was recorded live with Nyberg band—pianist Cecilia Persson, guitarist David Stackenäs, bassist Josef Kallerdahl and drummer Peter Danemo, at Kapellet (The Chapel) in Stockholm. This album feature looser, highly personal adaptations of jazz standards that relate to birds and images of aviation as "Fly Me to the Moon," "Where Flamingos Fly" and "Bye Bye Blackbird." Nyberg delivers these timeless standards with amused-playful elegance, commanding ideas of a clever storyteller but also a reserved sentimentality, leaving a lot of room for improvisations by her quintet musicians. Nyberg ongoing collaboration for the last decade with Stackenäs, known mostly for his free-improvised meetings with such innovativors as saxophonists Mats Gustafsson and Martin Küchen, or pianist Sten Sandell, cements the open approach to these songs. This approach is best demonstrated on their moving duo on "Skylark" or the the quintet searching, free arrangement of "Migration," with lyrics partly inspired by a poem "Motacilla Alba" by Joan Walsh Anglund, somehow summarizing Nyberg aesthetics: "I don't sing because i have an answer, I sing because i have a song."

The second part, titled as the album, fulfills a lifelong, ambitious dream of Nyberg to compose music for a string quartet. She wrote few segments for a string quartet featured on one of So Many Stars (Prophone, 1996) but on that album the string quartet played side by side with jazz musicians. Now, when asked to prepare a commissioned work by the Swedish National Radio music channel (P2) Nyberg wrote music and lyrics for her as a vocalist and the versatile Malmö-based, all-female Vindla String Quartet. The nine, highly-notated original compositions, only five with lyrics, blend beautifully Nyberg vision of contemporary music with a touch of rhythmic, jazz songs.

Nyberg arrangement of Siegfried Sassoon poem "Everyone Sang" is simply compelling—full of inventive ideas, delivering its profound, suggestive poetic images with irresistible commanding elegance. Her tribute to Soviet pioneer cosmonaut Valentina "Chayka" Tereshkova if filled with touching images of innocence and wonder of one who observed Earth from space. Her arrangement of Charles Ives "Like a Sick Eagle" (with lines taken from John Keats' sonnet "On Seeing the Elgin Marbles") is faithful for its fragile, compassionate of spirit, and her homage to pilot Amelia Earhart, "The Electra," after Earhart plane name, "sings away" any fear of flying. The concluding reprisal of the poem ""Motacilla Alba," with the Cappella Catharinae Choir charges the poems lines: "I fly and I cry for the brothers / At flight from war and terror" with an urgent, action-calling theme.

Masterful, imaginative and inspiring. ~Eyal Hareuveni

Personnel: Lina Nyberg vocals; Cecilia Persson: piano (CD 1); David Stackenäs: guitar (CD 1); Josef Kallerdahl: double bass, electric bass (CD 1); Peter Danemo: drums, percussion, live electronics (CD 1); Vindla String Quartet (Caroline Karpinska: violin; Maria Bergström: violin; Elina Nygren: viola; Gerda Holmquist cello) (CD 1: 1, 7, CD 2); Cappella Catharinae Choir (CD 1:7, CD 2: 9).

Aerial CD 1
Aerial CD 2

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Lina Nyberg, Esbjörn Svensson - Close

Styles: Vocal

Year: 2013

File: MP3@320K/s

Time: 66:57

Size: 153,7 MB

Art: Front

(4:56)  1. Little Unhappy Boy

(4:28)  2. Close

(4:30)  3. Here, There and Everywhere

(5:01)  4. Never Let Me Go

(3:53)  5. In Your Own Sweet Way

(6:11)  6. You Can Have Him

(4:03)  7. Waiting

(4:20)  8. Ruby My Dear

(5:25)  9. I Wish I Didn't Love You So

(4:41) 10. You Let My Love Grow Cold

(6:01) 11. Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most

(4:12) 12. I Hadn't Anyone 'Til You

(5:45) 13. May I Come In

(3:23) 14. Waltz For the Lonely Ones

Lina Nyberg was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1970 and raised in an artistic home. She discovered jazz at age 14 and at 18 years of age Lina began singing with Swedish senior jazz stars such as Bernt Rosengren, Nisse Sandström, Fredrik Norén Band, and others. In 1990 Lina built her own first constellation “Lina Nyberg Kvintett” consisting of Per “Texas” Johansson, Esbjörn Svensson, Dan Berglund and Mikel Ulfberg. After gratuating from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm as a Master of Fine Arts in 1993 she released her first CD- Close (Prophone records). A duo recording with late pianist Esbjörn Svensson. An instant success and Swedish jazz classic. This was also the beginning of a very fruitful cooperation with the brilliant producer and owner of Prophone records, late Erland Boëthius. Lina and her quintet received the prestigious Swedish Grammis award for her CD “when the smile shines through” in 1995. “OPEN” released in 1998 and recorded with bassist Palle Danielsson and pianist Anders Persson, among others, was nominated for a Swedish Grammis and received raving reviews.

Over the years Lina Nyberg has collaborated with various jazz musicians such as John Taylor, Marilyn Crispell, Palle Danielsson and Rigmor Gustafsson. She has toured in Scandinavia, parts of Europe, Vietnam, Canada and Brazil. A couple of times Lina also has toured Japan with Yasuhito Moris Scandinavian Connection. The Brazilian connection is also very strong to Lina and she has produced two cds dedicated to Brazil and its vast musical landscape, Brasilien (Prophone) 2003 with world famous bassplayer Anders Jormin and Brasil Big Bom 2007 (Caprice records) with big band and the great Swedish saxophonist Magnus Lindgren. Lina Nyberg is one of Sweden’s most creative and innovative jazz singers. For more than 15 years she has been attracting consistent and widespread attention, mostly in Scandinavia, but also in other parts of the world. As a solo artist and producer she has released 16 CDs. Her main constellation right now is Lina Nyberg Band featuring an all-star band: Cecilia Persson, piano, David Stackenäs, guitar, Josef Kallerdahl, bass and Peter Danemo, drums.

In September 2011 Lina Nyberg and her band released their latest CD – PALAVER (Moserobie Records). The CD recieved fantastic reviews and was selected by Chicago Reader writer Peter Margasak as the Vocal CD of the year. The music is a blend of influences from Brazilian Tropicalia, European Free form, modern classical composers, the American songbook and old school jazz.In March 2011 Lina Nyberg was awarded the prestigious Jazzmusician of the Year-prize by the Swedish Radio and in October 2011 she was the Guest of Honour at the Umeå International Jazz Festival.2014 she released her latest CD “The Sirenades” a project including composing music for Norrbotten Big Band on commission and her own quintet. The Cd got a wonderful reception from the press.She was awarded the prestigeous “Lars Gullin Award” and also the Bert Levin award of 75.000 swedish kronor. Lina was nominated as the Jazz composer of the year by the Swedish Radio Jazzkatten jury.  http://www.linanyberg.se/?page_id=45

Personnel:  Piano – Esbjörn Svensson;  Vocals – Lina Nyberg

Close

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Christina Gustafsson - My Move

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 44:00
Size: 100.7 MB
Styles: Jazz vocals
Year: 2009
Art: Front

[3:10] 1. Your Smiling Face
[5:06] 2. Take A Fall
[4:12] 3. My Move
[2:57] 4. I've Got The World On A String
[4:59] 5. Standing Where The Changes Begin
[4:27] 6. Winter Has Gone
[2:55] 7. Smile
[1:03] 8. Happy Talk
[5:15] 9. Stormy Weather
[4:49] 10. In The Light Of New York
[5:03] 11. Smiling Hour

Christina Gustafsson is sister of the better known Swedish jazz vocalist Rigmor Gustafsson. This is her second album, a follow-up to Moments Free (Prophone, 2007). Gustafsson feels herself to be part of the singer/songwriter tradition but employs a team of three text writers—Cecilia Åse, Helena Davidsson and Stefan Danielsson—who, she says, "have worked close together and talked about me (sic) thoughts of life right now and what the contents of the lyrics should be. That's the reason why the lyrics became very personal and intimate." The obvious question is: "Wouldn't they be still more personal and intimate if you wrote them yourself?"

There is the nasty suspicion that—having worked the trick with Rigmor—Svengalian forces are now trying to make the same formula succeed all over again with her sister. Not that Christina Gustafsson doesn't have some vocal and, perhaps, musical talent. It's just that she hasn't developed it a great deal. Maybe this is the fault of her homeland. Swedes often refer to it derisorily as ankdammen, "the duckpond." And the impression here is of a small coterie of people doing their thing, then telling each other they've achieved a great result. Had a little more thought and care been taken, and had an outside, more cynical eye been allowed to focus on the proceedings, who knows; perhaps Gustafsson could have been prodded into coming up with something truly original. As it is, there is really nothing here that you haven't heard before, many times over.

The feeling of déja vu sets in right from the start with James Taylor's "Your Smiling Face," and continues through three of Gustafsson's "personal and intimate" collaborations with Åse and Davidsson ("Take A Fall," "My Move," "Winter Has Gone" and "In the Light of New York") and one with Danielsson ("Standing Where The Changes Begin"). The impression is of bits and pieces taken from various popular musical forms and stitched together. To this are added English lyrics that are almost but not totally there ("Look at her—she's moving in New York"... "The road is about to wind"). Guitarists Max Schultz and Erik Söderlind are both gifted but are rarely given a chance to cut loose. There are the obligatory standards: Harold Arlen's "I've Got The World On A String" and a rather edgy 5/4 version of "Stormy Weather," and Charlie Chaplin's "Smile," which Gustafsson does as a sometimes out-of-sync duet with bassist Martin Höper. Then there is a surprisingly good version of "Happy Talk" from South Pacific (1949), also performed as a duet with Höper, who this time wisely restricts himself to a purely instrumental role. Everything climaxes with a rather shy sing-along—with sister Rigmor and vocalists Sofia Pettersson and Lina Nyberg—of "Smiling Hour," taken from Sarah Vaughan's album, Copacabana (Pablo, 1979). ~Chris Mosey

Christina Gustafsson: vocals; Max Schultz, Erik Söderlind: guitars; Martin Höper, bass; Calle Rasmusson, drums.

My Move

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