Styles: Jazz, Big Band
Year: 2009
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 60:08
Size: 138,2 MB
Art: Front
(4:11) 1. My Sweetie Went Away
(5:42) 2. Love Nest
(5:16) 3. I Hope Gabriel Likes My Music
(4:59) 4. Sweet Sue
(4:36) 5. Someone's Rockin' My Dream Boat
(3:05) 6. Dream Kisses
(5:17) 7. Dream A Little Dream Of Me
(4:00) 8. Sweetheart Of All My Dreams
(3:31) 9. Deep In A Dream
(3:30) 10. Dream House
(4:14) 11. Dreaming The Hours Away
(3:35) 12. Dream Of You
(3:49) 13. Beautiful Dreamer
(4:16) 14. Girl Of My Dreams
Year: 2009
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 60:08
Size: 138,2 MB
Art: Front
(4:11) 1. My Sweetie Went Away
(5:42) 2. Love Nest
(5:16) 3. I Hope Gabriel Likes My Music
(4:59) 4. Sweet Sue
(4:36) 5. Someone's Rockin' My Dream Boat
(3:05) 6. Dream Kisses
(5:17) 7. Dream A Little Dream Of Me
(4:00) 8. Sweetheart Of All My Dreams
(3:31) 9. Deep In A Dream
(3:30) 10. Dream House
(4:14) 11. Dreaming The Hours Away
(3:35) 12. Dream Of You
(3:49) 13. Beautiful Dreamer
(4:16) 14. Girl Of My Dreams
Classic Jazz Band might look like a standard trad band: six guys old enough to have jumped on the wagon during the brittish trad-boom of the fifties and sixties - banjo and no piano. This is only partly right. We can do that stuff and we still love to do it. Especially in the company of some of its original practitioners like Ken Colyer, Monty Sunshine and Acker Bilk who all have performed with the band. But since all members in the band are men with great integrity and possess a more than average knowledge of the history of jazz, the style and repertoire is today way beyond the short phenomenon of the The Boom. As opposed to many other traditional jazz bands today, we have not limited ourselves to playing New Orleans Style, Chicago Style, Dixieland, Swing, whatever those names stand for. (There is always the same problem when you are asked to explain what kind of music you are playing. We have since long tried to find a good word covering what we try to do. Early Jazz is the best one so far but not very selling.)
We simply play, and what comes out is usually some kind of music that makes people tap their feet, smile, dance or simply feel good and hopefully even buy our records. This we do at jazz-clubs, private parties, jazz festivals and we have done so for over 20 years with this band. No one has been exchanged since the start, wich perhaps meens we have fun together. All the members except Holger Gross is also members of the big band Kustbandet, still swinging after nearly fourty (40) years. Leader Holger Gross has freelanced with most bands in Stockholm after leaving popular Jazz Doctors in the early 1980s.
Pianist Ulf Johansson Werre is a regular feature with the band. Having him with us opens up unlimited possibillities. He is the perfect pianist for us who can do an Earl Hines to match Bent«s Armstrong-like solos, but he can also be absolutely his wild self - thank God! Another friend of the band is Frans Sjöström. He is a phenomenon, a sensation. Good old Frans has concentrated on the majestic bass saxophone and he won the respect of connoisseurs all over the world. Not just for sounding like the great Adrian Rollini when he wants to (no one comes closer) but for his ability to be creative and to move freely within the idiom. The Classic Jazz Band of Sweden has made five CD:s. They are titled Down in Honky Tonk Town, Colyer in Stockholm, Blue Feeling, I´m Glad and Dreamhouse. http://www.holgergross.se/html/classic_en.html
We simply play, and what comes out is usually some kind of music that makes people tap their feet, smile, dance or simply feel good and hopefully even buy our records. This we do at jazz-clubs, private parties, jazz festivals and we have done so for over 20 years with this band. No one has been exchanged since the start, wich perhaps meens we have fun together. All the members except Holger Gross is also members of the big band Kustbandet, still swinging after nearly fourty (40) years. Leader Holger Gross has freelanced with most bands in Stockholm after leaving popular Jazz Doctors in the early 1980s.
Pianist Ulf Johansson Werre is a regular feature with the band. Having him with us opens up unlimited possibillities. He is the perfect pianist for us who can do an Earl Hines to match Bent«s Armstrong-like solos, but he can also be absolutely his wild self - thank God! Another friend of the band is Frans Sjöström. He is a phenomenon, a sensation. Good old Frans has concentrated on the majestic bass saxophone and he won the respect of connoisseurs all over the world. Not just for sounding like the great Adrian Rollini when he wants to (no one comes closer) but for his ability to be creative and to move freely within the idiom. The Classic Jazz Band of Sweden has made five CD:s. They are titled Down in Honky Tonk Town, Colyer in Stockholm, Blue Feeling, I´m Glad and Dreamhouse. http://www.holgergross.se/html/classic_en.html