Nils Landgren with Sharon Dyall - Christmas with My Friends V (2016) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist
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01. Morgenstern und Morgenlicht
02. Let the Stars Come out Tonight
03. Joy to the World
04. Baby It's Cold Outside
05. Everyday Is Christmas
06. Go Tell It on the Mountain
07. Sleigh Ride
08. O Heiland, reiß die Himmel auf
09. Auld Lang Syne
10. Love Is Born
11. Gläns Över Sjö Och Strand
12. Hosianna
13. Härlig Är Jorden
14. Seven Stains from Christmas Eve
15. There Is No Rose
16. Kokles Christmas
17. Now the Time Is Here
18. Bereden väg för Herren

There is a synonym for the words diversity, curiosity and zeal: Nils Landgren. “Mr. Red Horn” swings brilliantly from one perspective to the next, also because he needs this constant change. Landgren embodies not one but two souls: When the audience sees him with his “Funk Unit”, the Swede shows himself from his masculine and distinct, relentlessly grooving side and acts the jazz action hero. However, there is also a gentle melancholic, highly sentimental Nils Landgren. He can be seen during Advent time, for example, when the instrumentalist and singer celebrates “Christmas With My Friends” or in his ballad projects, in which he intones on the trombone with incomparable smoothness and his highly individual, fragile voice touches the heart and the soul with a remarkable sensibility.

Fans of Nils Landgren will know him as Mr. Redhorn. This dare-devil Action Man drives his Funk Unit heroically from the front, sweat bejewelling his forehead. That, however is just one of the many sides of this popular and immensely likeable Swedish trombonist and bandleader. The master of the in-the-pocket groove also has a much softer, more romantic side. This sentimental mode found its most natural and effective method of expression in a thought he had exactly ten years ago. Landgren’s idea was not just a good one, it was a keeper: he would gather good friends around him, and they would celebrate Christmas together, through music. So, in 2006, on went the red satin dinner jacket for the very first time, and “Christmas With My Friends” was born. The concert in the ancient Odensala Church in Stockholm was recorded, and then issued as...

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