Nils Landgren & Jan Lundgren – Kristallen (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:22 minutes | 925 MB | Genre: Jazz
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When two old friends are reminiscing, talking to each other, laughing or crying together, talking about the past as if it were yesterday, solidifying an already airtight relationship, a listener can sometimes feel awkward, as if they are interfering… yet this is far from the case on Kristallen. The Swedish Nils Landgren/Jan Lundgren duo even goes out of its way to share this intimacy with the listener. This relaxed ‘chamber’ jazz that the trombonist-singer and pianist carve out on this superb duo album does a lot to build bridges between various places and times. Swedish folklore (the traditional Hornlåtar and Värmlandsvisan) features alongside the Great American Songbook (The Nearest of You and Didn’t We) and even The Beatles (I Will and Norwegian Wood). A milestone volume in which Jan Lundgren pays homage to two of his essential pianists with covers of Country by Keith Jarrett and Abdullah Ibrahim’s The Wedding. A Scandinavian hour full of controlled but nonetheless emotional music illuminating with originality a certain tradition of American jazz. – Marc Zisman
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Jan Lundgren, Emile Parisien, Lars Danielsson – Into the Night (Live) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 45:12 minutes | 422 MB | Genre: Jazz
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The trio format has always been something of an ideal for Jan Lundgren. That particular buzz when communication between the musicians in a trio is direct, immediate and ever-present…when the trio keeps a constant sense of forward motion and development…when the players collectively remain open to the inspiration of every millisecond. These are the virtues which Lundgren sees as the recipe for the kind of openness, freedom, subtlety and excellence of a trio at its best.
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Jan Lundgren – Potsdamer Platz (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:56 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Jazz
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On this critically acclaimed album, pianist Jan Lundgren displays his deep understanding of both tradition and modernism together with his preternatural instinct for bringing the two together. Entirely composed by Lundgren save for one track, Potsdamer Platz provides ample evidence of the compatibility of the musicians and their growth together as the band moves forward with a clear and strong common purpose.
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Jan Lundgren, Hans Backenroth – The Gallery Concerts II (Jazz Poetry) [Live] (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 48:12 minutes | 482 MB | Genre: Jazz
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The two Swedes Jan Lundgren and Hans Backenroth are musical storytellers, their playing is without any vanity and full of vivid stories. Qualities that Lundgren has already demonstrated with his own projects, the pan-European success trio “Mare Nostrum” and in duos with trombonist and singer Nils Landgren and bass icon Georg Riedel. Especially the latter finds a worthy continuation in the collaboration with Backenroth, an internationally sought-after European bassist.
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Paolo Fresu, Richard Galliano, Jan Lundgren – Mare Nostrum II (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 55:20 minutes | 982 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Sardinian trumpeter Paolo Fresu, French accordionist Richard Galliano and Swedish pianist Jan Lundgren form the trio “Mare Nostrum”. This band forges connections between the discrete musical cultures of its three protagonists. This new album marks the return to the studio of a European supergroup. And they’re on top form.
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Paolo Fresu, Richard Galliano & Jan Lundgren – Mare Nostrum III (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:13 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Jazz
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Their first collaboration, entitled Mare Nostrum in 2007, was really rather magical. So, it was hardly surprising that Paolo Fresu, Richard Galliano and Jan Lundgren returned with Mare Nostrum II in 2016, an album that was just as superb as the last. The Sardinian trumpeter, French accordionist and Swedish pianist once again displayed their natural sense of lyricism and poetry in their highly refined jazz through reinterpretations of pieces by the likes of Satie and Monteverdi… But good things always come in threes; after having recorded Volume I in Italy and Volume II in France, it seemed only logical that this album was recorded in Sweden to complete the trilogy. In the middle of Winter 2019, Fresu, Galliano and Lundgren met up once again to mix their personal compositions together for Volume III as well as integrating two covers of soundtracks – Norman Jewison’s The Windmills of Your Mind by Michel Legrand for The Thomas Crown Affair and Quincy Jones’s Love Theme from The Getawayfrom Sam Peckinpah’s The Getaway. Their partnership reaches new heights, the spaces feel even more comfortable and the musicality of their improvisations is multiplied tenfold. – Clotilde Maréchal
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