Rigmor Gustafsson - Come Home

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2019
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 53:38
Size: 123,5 MB
Art: Front

(3:49)  1. Big Yellow Taxi
(5:35)  2. I Think of You
(4:36)  3. Take a Little Turn
(4:29)  4. The Light Years
(5:14)  5. This Time
(3:53)  6. Wuthering Heights
(4:22)  7. Twist in My Sobriety
(4:43)  8. Lovely
(5:14)  9. Winter Doesn't End
(4:05) 10. Enjoy the Day
(7:33) 11. Come Home

Come Home marks Swedish jazz vocalist Rigmor Gustafsson’s return to the studio after a four-year hiatus. Working with a cadre of longtime lyricists, she funnels a deluge of new songs into a creative reservoir edged by the fabulous trio of Jonas Östholm on piano, Martin Höper on bass, and Chris Montgomery on drums. Behind Gustafsson’s technical prowess beats a troubadour’s heart. Songs like “I Think Of You” and “Take A Little Turn” crosshatch sly chord changes with unfiltered cadences and find her adapting to various subject matter with ease. Her band is equally responsive, softening her urgencies and heightening her melancholies. Guest harpist Margareta Bengtsson adds sparkle to “The Light Years,” one of the album’s strongest turns, while Östholm’s pianism draws a bold underline from start to finish. Much of the lyrical content plays with time, as over the gorgeous colorations of Höper and Montgomery on “Winter Doesn’t End” and “Enjoy The Day.” Whether in the upbeat bossa nova of “Lovely” or the anthemic title track, Gustafsson handles moods with distinct personality, especially on the set’s lovingly arranged covers. Both Joni Mitchell’s “Big Yellow Taxi” and Kate Bush’s “Wuthering Heights” highlight Gustafsson’s talent for simultaneously mimicking her source and being herself, but nowhere so deeply as on “Twist In My Sobriety,” which turns Tanita Tikaram’s classic into a plush groove. Featuring the accordion of Lisa Långbacka, it pays tribute to an era not so much bygone as buried under our current malaise. Tyran Grillo http://downbeat.com/reviews/detail/come-home

Come Home

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Peter Asplund - Satch as such

Styles: Trumpet Jazz
Year: 2011
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 73:10
Size: 168,6 MB
Art: Front

( 1:58)  1. Satch As Such
(10:20)  2. West end blues
( 7:13)  3. I'm confessin' (that I love you)
( 8:48)  4. Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans?
( 8:41)  5. I can't give you anything but love
( 4:40)  6. Ain't misbehavin
( 9:37)  7. I cover the waterfront
( 7:19)  8. When it's sleepy time down south
( 7:29)  9. Hello Dolly
( 6:58) 10. What a wonderful world

Satch as Such is a music album from 2000 with Peter Asplund and his orchestra. The album is a tribute to the 100-year-old Louis Armstrong with Armstrong's most famous songs modernly newly arranged for big band and trumpet soloist. The events are written by Mikael Råberg , Helge Albin , Bo Sylvén , Göran Strandberg , Staffan Odenhall , Magnus Lindgren and Magnus Blom. https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satch_as_Such

Personnel: Peter Asplund,Hans Dyvik,Patrik Skogh, Anders Gustafsson and Fredrik Oscarsson - trumpet;  Mikael Råberg , Dicken Hedrenius , Karin Hammar and Mattis Cederberg - trombone;  Johan Hörlen, Magnus Blom, Per "Texas" Johansson , Karl-Martin Almqvist , Magnus Lindgren and Alberto Pinton - saxophones;  Jacob Karlzon - piano;  Hans Andersson - bass;  Johan Löfcrantz Ramsay - drums;  Rigmor Gustafsson and Magnum Coltrane Price - song

Satch as such

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Rigmor Gustafsson - I Will Wait For You

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 54:24
Size: 124.5 MB
Styles: Jazz vocals
Year: 2003
Art: Front

[3:56] 1. Empty Hearts
[4:10] 2. Is It A Crime
[4:49] 3. If You Go Away (Ne Me Quitte Pas)
[3:58] 4. Makin' Whoopee
[4:00] 5. Fire And Rain
[5:45] 6. It Never Entered My Mind
[3:45] 7. Fever
[4:33] 8. The Moon's A Harsh Mistress
[4:19] 9. I Will Wait For You
[4:41] 10. It's Been So Long
[5:20] 11. Black Coffee
[5:03] 12. The More I See

Bass – Lars Danielsson; Drums – Wolfgang Haffner; Piano – Roberto Di Gioia; Strings [Guest] – The Fleshquartet; Trombone, Vocals, Producer, Liner Notes – Nils Landgren; Trumpet [Guest] – Staffan Svensson; Vocals – Rigmor Gustafsson. Recorded and Mixed by Jan Ugand at Polar Studios, Stockholm, Sweden in January and April 2003.

"Rigmor is the greatest jazz singer that we have had in Sweden for a very long time" wrote the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet. For years Rigmor Gustafsson has been a star of the young, vital Swedish jazz scene and has already released three albums in her own name. In Germany her highly-praised performance at the Berlin Jazz Festival in 2001 led to an invitation to the JazzBaltica Festival in 2002 as a result of which she could be introduced to the wider German audience as a "new star in the vocal heaven" (Jazzthetik). In the same year she guested on Nils Landgren’s successful Sentimental Journey album (ACT 9409-2). Now with the first ACT release I Will Wait For You she finally proves that she inherits seamlessly the tradition of great Swedish female vocalists such as Monica Zetterlund, Lill Lindfors and others.

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Magnus Lindgren - Souls

Styles: Flute Jazz

Year: 2013

File: MP3@320K/s

Time: 44:51

Size: 103,6 MB

Art: Front

(3:06)  1. Souls

(3:42)  2. Change All The Time

(4:29)  3. Creepin'

(3:42)  4. Rainy Day

(4:26)  5. Dreaming In New York

(4:00)  6. Barcelona

(4:15)  7. Small Stuff

(3:07)  8. Broken Heart

(4:17)  9. On A Sunday

(4:45) 10. Walk This Earth

(4:56) 11. Wrapped Around Your Finger

The Sweden Magnus Lindgren, saxophonist, flutist, clarinetist, composer and musical traveler will have his new album "Souls" out Nave: The recording took place in New York in collaboration with the voices of Gregory Porter, Ivan Lins and beautiful young Swedish jazz star Anna Christoffersson, among others. It highlights the talent of this artist / composer admired, among others, by Quincy Jones.

Personnel:  Magnus Lindgren - tenor sax, flute, alto flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, Rhodes, Wulitzer, vocals;  Leonardo Amuedo – guitars;  Ira Coleman – bass;  Rhani Krija – percussion;  Gregory Porter - vocals on track 1, 7, 8;  Rigmor Gustafsson - vocals on track 5;  Anna Christoffersson - vocals on tracks 1, 2, 4, 7, 8;  Marie Fredriksson - vocals on track 9;  Mark Reilly - vocals on track 4;  Ivan Lins - vocals on track 10

Souls

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Rigmor Gustafsson Quintet - Plan #46

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s

Time: 59:39

Size: 136.5 MB

Styles: Jazz vocals

Year: 1998/2011

Art: Front

[7:27] 1. Love Is A Little Late

[6:09] 2. The Catch

[6:42] 3. Prelude To A Kiss

[4:16] 4. Plan #46

[5:13] 5. Bluesette

[5:32] 6. Gelsomina

[6:46] 7. I Will Stay The Way I Am

[6:48] 8. Kumbaya

[4:25] 9. Rain

[6:15] 10. End Of A Love Affair

Bass – Hans Glawischnig; Drums – Roland Schneider; Piano – Tino Derado; Saxophone, Flute – Gabriel Coburger. Recorded at Systems Two, New York, September 1, 2 & 3, 1998.

An award-winning jazz vocalist from Sweden with an international following, Rigmor Gustafsson has strong ties to the United States, where she launched her career, as well as Germany, where she recorded for the ACT label, not to mention her homeland, where she is a contemporary jazz icon. In addition to her studio recordings and live performances, she's an accredited educator who taught at both the Royal Academy and Royal College of Music in Stockholm for a couple years before her singing career became a full-time profession. Born on April 12, 1966, in Värmskog, Sweden, Gustafsson studied at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm from 1986 to 1991, with a jazz vocal major, and received a Master of Fine Arts degree in music education in 1992. Upon graduating, she began working as a professional singer; moreover, she moved to New York City in 1993 and, in addition to working as a singer, studied at the New School Jazz Program. In 1994, while in New York City, she formed the Rigmor Gustafsson Quintet (Tino Derado, piano; Gabriel Coburger, saxophones, flute; Hans Glawischnig, bass; Roland Schneider, drums) with whom she toured Germany in 1995 and then again in 1996.

With her career now firmly established, she moved back to Sweden in 1996, settling in Stockholm, where she taught for a couple years, first at the Royal College of Music and then the Royal Academy. Her first two albums In the Light of Day (1996) and Plan #46 (1998), both released by Prophone Records  featured the aforementioned Rigmor Gustafsson Quintet and were well received critically.

Plan #46  

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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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Rigmor Gustafsson - Ballad Collection

Size: 145,6 MB

Time: 62:32

File: MP3 @ 320K/s

Released: 2005

Styles: Jazz Vocals

Art: Front

01. Keep Going (4:28)

02. Prelude To A Kiss (With Duke Ellington) (6:42)

03. Love Is A Little Late (7:22)

04. Very Warm For May - All The Thins You Are (With Jerome Kern) (6:41)

05. Gelsomina - All The Thins You Are (With Tino Derado) (5:31)

06. The Wizard Of Oz - Over The Rainbow (With Harold Arlen) (7:56)

07. Winter Poem (4:21)

08. Goodbye Pork Pie Hat (With Charles Mingus) (5:20)

09. Very Early (With Bill Evans) (6:28)

10. Winter Doesn't End (7:39)

Rigmor Gustafsson is a Swedish jazz singer born in 1966. She studied at Musikhögskolan (The University of Music) in Stockholm, to continue her studies in Mannes College of Music in New York. In 1995, she formed Rigmor Gustafsson Quintet, to release her first CD “In The Light Of Day” in 1997. With Rigmor Gustafsson Quintet she toured Sweden and Germany at the same time as she was a singing teacher at her former school, Musikhögskolan in Stockholm - a job that she kept between year 1996 and 2000.

Since then, Rigmor Gustafsson has released another five albums (1998’s “Plan #46”, 2000’s “Live På Mosebacke” (“Live At Mosebacke”), 2003’s “I Will Wait For You”, 2004’s “Close To You” and 2006’s “On My Way To You”), participated in the Swedish Jazz Festival, aswell as toured Europe, Asia and Australia.

She lives together with Swedish saxophonist Magnus Lindgren.

Ballad Collection

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Rigmor Gustafsson & Jill Seifers - New York Jazz Vocals (Feat. Mika Pohjola)

Size: 66,3 MB
Time: 28:14
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2015
Styles: Jazz Vocals
Art: Front

01. My Shining Hour (Feat. Mika Pohjola) (3:41)
02. Desafinado (Feat. Mika Pohjola) (4:59)
03. Skylark (Feat. Mika Pohjola) (4:26)
04. I'll Be Around (Feat. Mika Pohjola) (2:35)
05. It's All Right With Me (Feat. Mika Pohjola) (3:25)
06. When Sunny Gets Blue (Feat. Mika Pohjola) (4:03)
07. I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face (Feat. Mika Pohjola) (5:02)

The UK’s Guardian newspaper has called Rigmor Gustafsson “penetratingly delicate, and subtle,” and she continues to establish herself as one of the leading jazz vocalists in Scandinavia.

She has released 9 CD’s since 1997. Three have sold gold in Sweden, the first jazz artist to have that honor since Monica Zetterlund’s 1991 classic Varsamt. Rigmor’s “Alone with You” (2008) won a Swedish Grammy, and “I Will Wait for You” (2003) received The Jazz Award in Germany. In November 2013 she received the most prestigious jazz award in Sweden, “The Royal Musical Academy’s Jazz Award”. Her new CD, “When You Make Me Smile” with piano trio and orchestra, was released in August 2014.

Through the years Rigmor has toured around the globe, mostly with her own trio, but she has also featured in other constellations (Radio String Quartet Vienna, Danish Radio Big Band, The Royal Filharmonic Orchestra, Swedish Radio Jazz Orchestra), and has appeared on a number of TV shows. She has performed twice at celebrations for Crown Princess Victoria: Her Royal Highness’ birthday and the 2010 royal wedding concert, both performances broadcasted live on Swedish National TV. Rigmor also performed at the 2003 Nobel Prize Ceremony, broadcasted on TV in numerous countries.

Jill Seifers Walsh (1965-2012) grew up in Portland, Oregon, studied at Berklee College of Music, started her career in New York City, and lived in Nashville until her untimely death in December 2012.

Jill was a modern songwriter with a gift for beautiful melodies and a voice as pure as the Pacific Northwest. Backed by some of New York's and Nashville's finest musicians, Jill's own compositions brought a sense of musicianship and integrity that is sometimes missing in today's music. A musician since the age of four, Jill shared the stage and studio with Shawn Colvin, Jessica Simpson and she is featured on the top 5 single (BBC Radio 1) "Breathe", which is from the album Nightbird by Erasure. Her debut solo album was produced by Steve Walsh whose credits include productions with Erasure, Fil Izler, and Amy Atchley. Jill's vast parallel career as a jazz vocalist has been documented on recordings with some of today's most established jazz musicians, most notably pianist Mika Pohjola, guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel, saxophonist Chris Cheek, drummer Jorge Rossy and pianist Michael Kanan. She was in the prestigious faculty of the New School and New York University jazz programs while living in New York City.

New York Jazz Vocals

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Rigmor Gustafsson - When You Make Me Smile

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2014
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 47:57
Size: 110,6 MB
Art: Front

(3:31)  1. Call Me Lonely
(3:02)  2. Forget About the Moonlight
(2:55)  3. A Different Kind
(3:36)  4. If Dreams Are Made of Sand
(5:03)  5. When You Make Me Smile
(3:46)  6. I Get Along
(3:44)  7. Nobody Does It Better
(4:11)  8. Stay, Stay, Valentines Day
(4:03)  9. Finally Falling in Love
(4:22) 10. Blind as a Bat
(3:10) 11. Woke Up On Sunday (In Saturday's Shoes)
(4:13) 12. Let It Go
(2:15) 13. Hymn

Rigmor Gustaffson's extensive discography, stretching back to 1997, has seen the Swedish vocalist working with major jazz musicians such as Jacky Terrasson and Eric Harland. When You Make Me Smile is her sixth album all of which have included "You" in the title. Gustafsson is a subtle vocalist no over-the-top melodrama or blues hollerin' here and this is a polished collection of songs. The album title and its cover photo of a smiling Gustafsson hint strongly at an upbeat, if sentimental, collection of pop-jazz songs. There's certainly plenty of examples "A Different Kind," "Blind As A Bat" and "Forget About The Moonlight" to name just three but Gustafsson also adds a couple of bluesy numbers and one or two slow, sad, songs. It all adds up to a collection with a wider stylistic and emotional range than the title and photo suggest. 

With the exception of Marvin Hamlisch and Carole Bayer Sager's "Nobody Does It Better" this is a set of original songs. Gustafsson provides the music to most of them, with lyrics by Tomas Bäcklund and Ollie Olson. Gustafsson's regular working trio Jonas Ostholm on piano, Martin Höper on bass and Jonas Holgersson on drums form a sympathetic musical center for these songs, aided and abetted by a strong set of guest players. Sweden's Dalasinfoniettan features on some of the songs, its appearances giving a lush romanticism to "Forget About The Moonlight" and "If Dreams Are Made Of Sand." Sweeping strings also suit the sadness of "Let It Go," a duet with Eagle-Eye Cherry (son of Don Cherry) and of "Hymn." The Dalasinfoniettan's contribution to "Nobody Does It Better," by contrast, is a little too lush Östholm, Höper and Holgersson all make considered and sympathetic contributions that get rather overwhelmed by the orchestra. 

The lovely waltz-time ballad "Call Me Lonely" and the slinky bossa nova of "When You Make Me Smile" (which features Magnus Lindgren's flute solo) have an immediate and lasting impact. So, too, do two songs with a small band accompaniment. "I Get Along" is a soulful blues enlivened by Jesper Nordenström's atmospheric organ playing. "Woke Up On Sunday [In Saturday's Shoes]" is another blues, but this time there's a bit more of an edge, lyrically and musically. Bäcklund's lyrics tell the tale of a lost weekend, the protagonist "still wearing Friday night's clothes." Holgersson and Höper keep things funky, as does guitarist Max Schultz, and Lindgren makes another welcome appearance, this time on clarinet. ~  Bruce Lindsay  http://www.allaboutjazz.com/when-you-make-me-smile-rigmor-gustafsson-act-music-review-by-bruce-lindsay.php#.VEaAgslNeKU
 

Personnel: Rigmor Gustafsson: vocals; Jonas Östholm: piano; Max Schultz: guitar; Jesper Nordenström: organ; Martin Höper: bass; Jonas Holgersson: drums; Calle Rasmusson: percussion; Eagle-Eye Cherry: vocals (12); Magnus Lindgren: tenor saxophone, clarinet, flute (3, 5, 11); Patrik Skogh: trumpet, flugelhorn: 3, 5, 9, 10); Karin Hammar: trombone (3, 5, 9, 10); Anders Wiborg: bass trombone (5, 9, 10); Jonas Nydesjö: conductor; Dalasinfoniettan.

When You Make Me Smile

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DR Big Band - Jazz Divas Of Scandinavia

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 46:41
Size: 106.9 MB
Styles: Vocal jazz
Year: 2011
Art: Front

[5:21] 1. Be Still My Heart (Silje Nergaard)
[4:27] 2. Voodoo Skills (Rigmor Gustafsson)
[4:57] 3. Send In The Clowns (Cæcilie Norby)
[6:01] 4. Nothing's Better Than Love (Rigmor Gustafsson)
[5:16] 5. Naked In The Dark (Cæcilie Norby)
[5:15] 6. Tell Me Where You're Going (Silje Nergaard)
[5:25] 7. Somewhere Over The Rainbow (Rigmor Gustafsson)
[4:42] 8. Japanese Blue (Silje Nergaard)
[5:14] 9. Circus, Circus (Cæcilie Norby)

For the first time ever the three most significant female jazz vocalist of Scandinavia are gathered on a single album. Jazz Divas of Scandinavia beautifully documents the meeting of the legendary DR Big Band and the three distinct jazz vocal traditions of Denmark, Sweden and Norway. Norby, Nergaard and Gustafsson have each defined female jazz vocal in Scandinavia over the last 10 years and have spearheaded the current surge of talented new female jazz singers. The three women each have an impressive career in their native countries as well as around the world. The collaboration with the DR Big Band is undoubtedly the ultimate experience of Scandinavian jazz vocal.

Jazz Divas Of Scandinavia

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Rigmor Gustafsson/ Jacky Terrasson Trio - Close to You

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 2005
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 51:04
Size: 117,3 MB
Art: Front

(4:03)  1. Close to You
(2:42)  2. Walk on By
(3:38)  3. Move Me No Mountain
(4:13)  4. So Amazing
(4:10)  5. I'll Never Fall in Love Again
(3:56)  6. Much Too Much
(2:42)  7. Odds and Ends
(4:11)  8. Alfie
(3:39)  9. What the World Needs Now
(4:53) 10. Windows of the World
(2:22) 11. Always Something There to Remind Me
(3:07) 12. Raindrops Keeps Falling on My Head
(3:46) 13. I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself
(3:35) 14. World of My Dreams

The Swedish singer Rigmor Gustafsson sounded just dandy throughout 2003's I Will Wait for You. She sounds even better when teamed with exemplary French pianist Jacky Terrasson on Close to You (ACT Music). Billed as a celebration of Dionne Warwick, it's really more an homage to the combined genius of Bacharach and David, since several of the selected songs were more famously recorded by artists other than Warwick, including "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" (B.J. Thomas), "What the World Needs Now" (Jackie DeShannon) and "I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself" (originally done to near-suicidal perfection by Dusty Springfield). Weaving through such pop chestnuts (along with such later, lesser-known delights as Luther Vandross' "So Amazing" and Jerry Ragovoy's "Move Me No Mountain"), Gustafsson suggests Blondie's Debbie Harry after a big gulp of Astrud Gilberto and a Julie London chaser. She is as cool and bracing as a northern breeze on a sunny Stockholm afternoon. ~ Christopher Loudon   http://jazztimes.com/articles/15665-close-to-you-rigmor-gustafsson

Close to You

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