Pelle Trazan Jonasson - Copenhagen Connection

Styles: Jazz
Year: 2009
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 57:32
Size: 132,2 MB
Art: Front

(7:49)  1. Secret Love
(4:52)  2. Little Willie Leaps
(6:47)  3. If You Could See Me Now
(7:34)  4. Star Eyes
(3:36)  5. Prelude In Blue
(4:06)  6. Nothing Special
(4:44)  7. Our Delight
(3:51)  8. You and the Night and the Music
(4:49)  9. Sometime Ago
(3:48) 10. Backgammon
(5:32) 11. Firm Roots

Bebop is spoken throughout this excellent set. Two Swedish musicians (pianist Jan Lundgren and trumpeter Peter Asplund) meet up with a couple of Americans (bassist Dave Carpenter and drummer Paul Kreibich) on a variety of superior standards, plus a couple of jazz interpretations of obscure Swedish songs. Asplund has a bright sound in the Clifford Brown tradition; Lundgren looks toward Bud Powell; and the Americans are quite supportive of the lead voices. 

To break up the strict quartet format, Barney Kessel's "Swedish Pastry" is taken by the rhythm trio; Lundgren and Asplund play a duet version of "Sodermalm"; Lundgren is absent on "I Hear a Rhapsody"; and "How Deep Is the Ocean" is a piano-bass duet. Other highlights include "Au Privave," "What Is This Thing Called Love," and "When It's Sleepy Time Down South." Easily recommended to bebop collectors.  https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/copenhagen-connection/id349049202

Personnel:  Jan Lundgren(p);  Jesper Lundgaard(b);  Pelle Trazan Jonasson(ds);  Nisse Sandstrom(ts)

Copenhagen Connection

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