Lars Danielsson - Libera Me (2004) [SACD]

Lars Danielsson is a very talented bassist & with him on this album are also several great players such as Carsten Dahl & Nils Petter Molvaer. Generally, this album is a crossover between jazz & classical music. Lars has managed to marry slow jazz with classical music into music that sounds very natural. The music is generally slow in pace which gives Lars opportunity to show his gentle style of playing bass. He has a great feel when he performs solos.
Danish jazz vocalist Cæcilie Norby (wife/girlfriend of Lars Danielsson) is also singing on the track “Newborn Broken”. This version is far better than the 1 she does on 1 of her albums. Other recommended songs are Lars’ interpretation of Joni Mitchell’s “Both Sides Now”. You can almost hear the lyrics in the song as Lars plays the bass. Other recommended songs are “Suffering” & “Shimmering”. Both these 2 songs show the feel that Lars has when it comes to both performing solo & playing the melody.