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Nils Landgren & Joe Sample – Creole Love Call (2006)

2011-09-29T18:22:24Z

Nils Landgren & Joe Sample – Creole Love Call (2006)


1.  Get out of My Life Woman    [04:16]
2.  (Sittin' on The) Dock of the Bay    [04:33]
3.  Nightlife    [04:34]
4.  Soul Shadows    [05:17]
5.  Brightest Smile in Town    [06:23]
6.  Don't Take Your Love to Hollywood    [03:14]		play
7.  One Day I Fly Away    [04:00]
8.  With You in Mind    [03:14]
9.  I Can't Get Enough of Your Love    [05:34]
10.  Love the One You're With    [03:22]
11.  Same Old Story    [04:40]
12.  Creole Love Call    [02:52]						play

Musicians:
Joe Sample – piano, Fender Rhodes
Nils Landgren – trombone, vocals
Charmaine Neville – vocals (Track 8)
Chris Severin – bass
Raymond Weber – drums
Ray Parker Jr. – guitar, vocals
Lenny Castro – percussion

Swedish trombonist and vocalist Nils Landgren joins forces with Joe Sample and friends in New Orleans for this studio session, which mixes up a hot gumbo of R&B, jazz, and Crescent City down-home fun. The play list draws from many styles, including works by local legend Allen Toussaint, Ray Charles, rocker Stephen Stills, and even Willie Nelson, as was as originals by Sample and one from jazz master Duke Ellington. The duet tracks are the most fun as Landgren shares the vocals with Ray Parker, Jr. ("Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay") and Charmaine Neville (on the funky "With You in Mind"). The guitar and percussion-heavy take of "Love the One You're With" leans more toward Stills' original conception than the Isley Brothers' overdone interpretation, though Sample's playful licks keep things loose and the heavy overdubs of the composer are missing in this version. The only dull track is the monotonous "I Can't Get Enough of Your Love," which wears out its welcome quickly. "Creole Love Call" adds the Piety Street Brass Band for a slightly modern twist on an early jazz favorite from the 1920s. When he's not singing, Landgren plays a mean trombone. Fortunately, this CD was completed several months before the unwelcome arrival of Hurricane Katrina. --- jazzbluesclub.com

Nils Landgren and Joe Sample have known each other for at least 20 years, from when Nils accidentally found himself in the middle of a recording session of The Crusaders in Los Angeles and then played together with Randy Crawford in Santa Barbara the following summer. Years later, after three of the original Crusaders got back together in 2003, Joe Sample invited Nils at the beginning of 2005 to join him on a major Japan tour - and thus Creole Love Call was sealed with a simple handshake.

The band which Nils and Joe specially put together for this album mainly consists of musicians from New Orleans. With a famous exception: the pop and soul star Ray Parker Jr., especially known for the title song for the Ivan Reitman film "Ghostbusters" (1984). Here he plays guitar and duets with Nils Landgren on the Otis Redding hit "Dock Of The Bay". The rhythm section includes bassist Chris Severin, who is known amongst others from many Dianne Reeves albums, Raymond Weber (drums), and Lenny Castro (percussion).

Weber was in the 90s a member of Harry Connick Jr.'s Big Band and is to be seen on screen in the film "Ray" as the drummer in the band of Ray Charles. The busy percussionist Lenny Castro has worked together with greats such as Al Jarreau, Stevie Wonder, Barbra Streisand, Ricky Lee Jones, Diana Ross and Quincy Jones, and is also known for work with Joe Sample and The Crusaders.

Charmaine Neville, a member of the famous Neville Brothers clan, appears as "special guest", interpreting with Nils Landgren Allen Toussaint's classic "With You In Mind", which lyrics are written by her uncle Aaron Neville. Also appearing on Creole Love Call is one of New Orleans' most famous musicians, the sousaphone player Kirk Joseph, arguably the most important and most creative innovator of his instrument. Together with trombonist "Big Sam" Sammie Williams, leader of the New Orleans funk band "Big Sam's Funky Nation", he is a member of the legendary New Orleans' Dirty Dozen Brass Band. ---amazon.com

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Nils Landgren Funk Unit - Eternal Beauty (2014)

2014-01-20T16:51:00Z

Nils Landgren Funk Unit - Eternal Beauty (2014)


01. Love of My Life 2:50
02. Another Kind of Blue 3:20
03. Broken Wings 4:08
04. Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight 4:38
05. Green Fields 4:25
06. One Frozen Moment 3:14
07. Eternal Beauty 4:00
08. Isn't It a Pity 3:57
09. Get Here 4:20
10. One More Angel 3:36
11. We Don't Need Another Hero 4:38
12. For Your Love 4:41
13. Dear Diary 4:33
14. Love is Real 3:32

Artists:
Nils Landgren - trombone & vocals
Michael Wollny - piano
Johan Norberg - guitars
Lars Danielsson - upright bass & cello on Broken Wings
Rasmus Kihlberg - drums
Lisa Nilsson - vocals on For Your Love

Not only the trombonist Nils Landgren has built up an enormous fan base over the decades with his Funk Unit, with big bands and alongside the greats of jazz music so has the vocalist Nils Landgren. His clear, throaty and yet mellow voice is very distinctive, and perfect for ballads. Apart from on his Christmas anthology Christmas With My friends it could also be admired on The Moon, The Stars And You that came out two years ago. What is more, Landgren put together a rhythm section here that understood each other intuitively. Alongside his companion of many years Lars Danielsson on the bass and cello, and the Viktoria Tolstoy drummer Rasmus Kihlberg, he also added Michael Wollny as a consummate sensitive piano accompanist to the mix. It is a criterion that most of the songs on "Eternal Beauty" will certainly also meet for many listeners, from George Harrison's Isn't It A Pity to Mr. Mister's Broken Wings on through to We don't Need Another Hero made popular by Tina Turner. And not just the hits adapted from pop, no, also intelligent jazz ballads the likes of ;One More Angel from the jazz bassist John Patitucci and Another Kind Of Blue by the New York-based German guitarist Torsten de Winkel. Michael Wollny wrote the title track together with Eva Svensson, Esbjörn Svensson's widow, and the whole album Eternal Beauty is an homage to Esbjörn.

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Nils Landgren Funk Unit – Paint it Blue (1999)

2010-11-25T22:18:47Z

Nils Landgren Funk Unit – Paint it Blue (1999)


1. Walk Tall
2. You Dig
3. Why Am I Treated So Bad
4. Brother Nat
5. Inside Straight             play
6. Cannoball
7. Mercy Mercy Mercy
8. Mother Fonk
9. Primitivo
10. After The Party
11. Love All Serve All          
5. Inside Straight             play
12. Julian

Credits:
Nils Landgren: Trombone, Trumpet
Per "Rusktrask" Johansson: Saxophones
Henrik Janson: Guitars
Esbjorn Svensson: Fender Rhodes, Keyboards
Bernard "Pretty" Purdie: Drums
Lars Danielsson: Fender Bass
Michael Brecker: Trumpet (Track 2)
Randy Brecker: Flugelhorn (Tracks 2,5)
Till Bronner: Trumpet (Track 9)
Airto Moreira: Percussions (Tracks 6,8,9,11)
Magnum Coltrane Price: Vocals, Synths (track 2)

One of trombonist Nils Landgren's early inspirations was Cannonball Adderley's group. Paint It Blue is dedicated to Adderley with Landgren performing five songs associated with the altoist plus seven originals that pay tribute to Cannonball's bands. Some of the music is in the soul-jazz vein while other tunes (particularly the originals) are more modern, even incorporating a little bit of rap in a couple places. Landgren is a fine trombonist (sometimes a little reminiscent of Wayne Henderson) and he manages to keep up with Michael and Randy Brecker, who in this situation are superior supportive soloists. Without merely copying the past, Landgren expands on the legacy of Adderley quite successfully. ~ Scott Yanow

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Nils Landgren – Jazz Baltica 2006

2009-10-19T18:54:18Z

Nils Landgren – Jazz Baltica 2006


01. Love The One You’re With
02. Nasty
03. Fragile
04. Intro & Riffs # 2
05. Rhumba Alias Part I
06. Rhumba Alias Part II
07. Ghost in This House
08. The Moon’s A Harsh Mistress Part I
09. The Moon’s A Harsh Mistress Part II
10. Impressions

Nils Landgren, trombone, vocal
Michael Wollny, piano
Peter Erskine, drums
Pat Metheny, guitar
NDR Big Band conduced by Vince Mendoza

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The Jubilee Concerts (Live) (2017)

2017-07-13T12:05:49Z

The Jubilee Concerts (Live) (2017)


01. Send in the Clowns - Nils Landgren
02. Walk Tall - Nils Landgren
03. Savannah Samurai - Dieter Ilg
04. Suffering - Lars Danielsson
05. Missing a Page - Joachim Kühn
06. Quo Vadis - Adam Baldych
07. B&h - Emile Parisien
08. Dodge the Dodo - Iiro Rantala
09. We Are Family - ACT Family Band

Nils Landgren – trombone, vocals
Michael Wollny – piano 
Joachim Kühn - piano 
Iiro Rantala – piano
Cæcilie Norby – vocals
Ida Sand – vocals
Ulf Wakenius – guitar
Andreas Schaerer – vocals
Nguyên Lê – guitar
Emile Parisien - saxophon 
Vincent Peirani – accordion
Adam Bałdych – violin
Christof Lauer - saxophon 
Dieter Ilg - bass 
Lars Danielsson - bass 
Wolfgang Haffner – drums
Eric Schaefer – drums

Live at Konzerthaus Berlin, April 2, 2017

The culmination of the day of celebration in Berlin was a Gala Concert by the “ACT Family Band.” The evening built naturally to a whole-band, whole-family finale in which the combined ensemble, led by Ida Sand, launched into “We Are Family”. As an expression of togetherness, of a shared joyful ethos it would be hard to beat. These Jubilee Concerts made it possible to experience at close quarters what ACT exists to achieve: it is a leading label where listeners can discover newly created music “in the Sprit of jazz.” The label’s range and its previously unimagined connections are a constant source of surprise from which it draws ever-new inspiration to connect the unexpected. Mike Flynn, Editor of Jazzwise wrote in his review of the concert that the ACT label has “a smile on its face and a swagger in its step”. And where might the best evidence for that statement be found? It’s all there on this album. --- actmusic.com

Jazz invariably means making things for the first time. And it is only by leaving the well-trodden paths, by looking risk and danger in the eye can that one find the unexpected and the unheard. In this process, ACT has the role of a reliable compass, pointing a listener looking for jazz, or for exciting music “in the spirit of jazz” consistently in the right direction. ACT loves what it does, has been doing it well for a quarter of a century, and continues with the same ethos into the future. ACT 25 Years is a flood of memories. But it also serves as a re-affirmation. --- challengerecords.com

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