Monica Borrfors & Sweet Jazz Trio - A Certain Sadness

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 54:23
Size: 124.5 MB
Styles: Jazz vocals
Year: 2001/2009
Art: Front

[5:36] 1. A Certain Sadness
[2:48] 2. For All We Know
[4:33] 3. Violets For Your Furs
[6:13] 4. Embraceable You
[4:09] 5. Yesterdays
[4:36] 6. I´ve Grown Accustomed To His Face
[4:13] 7. My Ideal
[5:28] 8. Once Upon A Summertime
[4:01] 9. Somebody Loves Me
[4:51] 10. My Foolish Heart
[2:47] 11. That Old Feeling
[5:02] 12. You´ve Changed

Monica Borrfors one of Sweden's foremost jazz singers and chamber jazz group Sweet Jazz Trio by Peter Nordahl and Patrik Boman of the record company Arietta brought together on a CD which was released in early September 2001 under the name "A Certain Sadness". Monica Borrfors that usually leads his own quintet - since 1980 - sings to the accompaniment of guitarist Mats Larsson, contra bassist Hans Backenroth and cornet player Lasse Törnqvist Sweet Jazz Trio.

Guest artist in three of the numbers is the English top trumpeter Guy Barker, who has played in Sweden with Peter Nordahl Trio and Patrik Boman Seven Piece Machine. In a number guest plays baritone saxophonist Gunnar Bergsten - Grammy winner who also received Lars Gullin price.

A Certain Sadness

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Monica Borrfors - Hello Young Lovers

Size: 165,4 MB
Time: 71:05
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2015
Styles: Jazz Vocals
Art: Front

01. It's Easy To Remember (2:35)
02. The Night Has A Thousand Eyes (5:22)
03. Nature Boy (3:35)
04. It Never Entered My Mind (4:59)
05. Whisper Not (3:33)
06. Darn That Dream (4:52)
07. Paint Your Pretty Picture (4:37)
08. 'Round Midnight (6:22)
09. I'm Glad There Is You (5:14)
10. Doxy (5:32)
11. The Boy Next Door (3:41)
12. I Didn't Know What Time It Was (4:46)
13. If You Could See Me Know (6:31)
14. Mr. Ugly (3:04)
15. Hello Young Lovers (4:59)
16. Epilogue After The Storm (1:15)

Personnel: Gosta Nilsson on piano, Filip Augustson on bass and Jesper Kviberg at the drums.
Guests: Trumpeter Anders Bergcrantz from Malmo and saxophonist Fredrik Lindborg.

Novelist Barry Eisler states, "Swedish vocalist I first heard in Bar Satoh in Osaka, the worlds best whiskey bar. Slowfox is a collection of songs in English, all rendered in Borrfor's warm, slightly husky, beautiful voice."

Monica was born May 14, 1954 in Brännkyrka Assembly, Stockholm. She came as number two in a family of five. Sister Elisabeth was then three years old. The family had just moved out from Wollmar Yxkullsgatan in Stockholm to the newly built south suburb Högdalen where they lived between 1954 and 1959, and where even the little brother Peter was born in 1955. My father was self-employed and the mother a housewife.

In high school, she had music as an optional subject and her teachers during the last two years was Gosta Nilsson. Monica was interested in singing and was for 20 years a member of Gosta Nilsson's youth choir and later the Chamber of Trångsunds and Skogås parish where he was organist and choirmaster in 1966.

Monica trained in health care with a view on a midwife and worked in the maternity care at Danderyd Hospital between 1973-1983.

Monica has worked alongside his quintet and as a soloist in many other contexts. With big bands in both Sweden and abroad, with choirs and small groups.

Hello Young Lovers

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Monica Borrfors - Second Time Around

Time: 49:56
Size: 114.3 MB
Styles: Jazz vocals
Year: 1990/2010
Art: Front

[2:23] 1. Happy Again
[4:59] 2. 'round Midnight
[3:43] 3. How Deep Is The Ocean
[5:19] 4. When Sunny Gets Blue
[4:56] 5. Flying Colors-Alone Together
[4:11] 6. Little Man You've Had A Busy Day
[6:55] 7. Old Folks
[3:23] 8. Star Spangled Rhythm/That Old Black Magic
[4:12] 9. Since Love
[5:00] 10. Twisted
[4:49] 11. High Time/Second Time Around

Double Bass – Per Nilsson; Drums – Magnus Öström; Piano – Gösta Nilsson; Tenor Saxophone – Stefan Isaksson; Vocals – Monica Borrfors.

In 1986 Monica Borrfors was chosen to do the Jazz in Sweden recording, and with that much acclaimed CD she received a Swedish Grammy Award. Second Time Around is her second CD with the Quintet, this time reinforced on some of the tracks with brass. Some of the arrangements are made by Bernt Rosengren. This CD was also nominated for The Swedish Grammy Award (Grammis).

Second Time Around

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Monica Borrfors & Sweet Jazz Trio - Remembering Billie

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 2009
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 54:39
Size: 125,5 MB
Art: Front

(4:57)  1. My Man
(2:12)  2. Them There Eyes
(3:10)  3. It's Easy To Remember
(3:36)  4. I Cover The Waterfront
(3:59)  5. Our Love Is Here To Stay
(4:49)  6. But Beautiful
(5:29)  7. God Bless The Child
(4:55)  8. I Should Care
(4:56)  9. Good Morning Heartache
(3:50) 10. The End Of A Loveaffair
(4:52) 11. You Don't Know What Love Is
(3:32) 12. Lover Come Back To Me
(4:15) 13. You Go To My Head

Monica and the trio continues on the path of success layed down with their first album together "A Certain Sadness". On this second time around they have refined their collaboration and they leave you breathless as they pay tribute to one of the "legends of jazz", Billie Holiday.  http://www.pluggedrecords.com/cd/jazz/monica-borrfors-sweet-jazz-trio-remembering-billie.html

Personnel:  Monica Borrfors vocal. Sweet Jazz Trio - Lasse Törnqvist cornet, Mats Larsson guitar and Hans Backenroth double bass.

Remembering Billie

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