Jan Johansson - Jan Johansson spelar musik pa sitt eget vis (1995)

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Artist: Jan Johansson
Title: Jan Johansson spelar musik pa sitt eget vis
Year Of Release: 1995
Label: Heptagon Records[HECD-012]
Genre: Jazz, Post Bop
Quality: FLAC (tracks + .cue,log)
Total Time: 76:27
Total Size: 355 MB(+3%)
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist

01. I'm gonna go fishin' (2:49)
02. Joshua fit the battle of Jericho (3:35)
03. Django (4:47)
04. Arap Kapero och Nanda mundani (4:05)
05. Kung Erik leker pa luta (2:27)
06. Domaredansen (3:41)
07. 'Round about midnight (3:59)
08. Cubano chant (2:54)
09. St. Louis blues (3:45)
10. Two little pearls (3:08)
11. Visan om Titanic (3:32)
12. As time goes by (3:29)
13. The drunken sailor (1:17)
14. Logger's love (3:30)
15. Lover man (4:39)
16. Camptown races (4:21)
17. Humlans flykt (0:54)
18. Sakkijarven pollka (2:40)
19. One for my baby (4:16)
20. Varfor skola manskor strida (3:01)
21. Bohuslanska sjomansvalsen (2:32)
22. Te dans ma' Kalstatosera (1:27)
23. Det sjunger nagonting inom mig (2:36)
24. Flickorna i Smaland (3:03)

Founded in Sweden in 1994 by Jan Johansson's sons Anders and Jens, Heptagon Records has reissued much of the late Swedish pianist's 1950s and 1960s output on CD. Spelar Musik pa Sitt Eget Vis is a generous 77-minute CD that focuses largely on orchestral jazz that he recorded from 1964-1966. Many of these recordings are classically influenced and inspire comparisons to the third stream experiments of Gunther Schuller as well as the orchestral music that Gil Evans recorded with Miles Davis in the late 1950s, but such comparisons shouldn't obscure the fact that Johansson was quite original himself. One of the things that made him unusual was his ability to place Scandinavian folk songs in a jazz setting, and this collection finds him turning his attention to traditional Scandinavian melodies like "Kung Erik Leker pa Luta" and "Varfor Skola Manskor Strida," as well as American standards such as "Lover Man" and "As Time Goes By." Several of the selections aren't orchestral, but are small-group and solo performances that feature Johansson on the organ instead of his usual piano. Although this enriching music hasn't been reissued by an American label, Spelar Musik Na Sitt Eget Vis made it to American stores as an import and is well worth searching for.~Alex Henderson

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