Jazz på svenska
Occupation
- Piano: Jan Johansson
- Bass Georg Riedel
Jazz på svenska ( "Jazz in Swedish " ) is a jazz album of the Swedish jazz pianist Jan Johansson, which was released as LP in 1964. The only jazz versions of old folk songs containing particular album was very well received in Sweden and had great impact on the further development of the Scandinavian jazz.
History Album
Johansson was interested in at a time, as the other musicians of the Swedish scene either the American role models imitated or attempted to develop their own path within the free jazz, the music of his native Sweden. Already his album 8 Bitar Johansson contained, besides his own compositions and jazz standards a Swedish folk song, De Salde sina hemman. Remarks in meetings encouraged him to adapt in the following years more folk songs than jazz songs and einzuspielen together with bassist Georg Riedel. The songs he chose from the extensive and comprehensive collection of 24 volumes Svenska Latar. According to the recollections of Georg Riedel Johansson was initially " very insecure and has many musicians asked what they think of his approach. " From 1962 to 1964 Johansson played three EPs, which were then combined at the 1964 LP Jazz på svenska.
Music Album
The selected tracks are partly based on dance songs, act of trolls (mountain Kristi's Polka), refer to legendary musicians such as Höök Olle or Larshöga Jonke or to certain places (like Älvdalen ) and lands of Sweden as Medelpad. Johansson interpreted the songs in a duo with Riedel very chamber music, " with a mixture of Bach's or Grieg'scher fineness and improvising openness." Johansson played it with a feather-light, "but with incredible authority" appointed stop. The lecture ductus " was worn, gentle, a little faded away. Johansson played stylistically amazing self-sufficient, remained in the idiom of the simple, minor stressed harmony, which he, however, added by flowing, flirty ornamented melody. "
Title list
- Visa från Utanmyra - 4:32
- Gånglek från Älvdalen - 1:58
- Leksand skänklåt - 3:04
- Emigrant Visa - 3:13
Recording data
- February 28, 1962: 1, 6, 9
- October 18, 1963: 3, 4, 5, 8
- May 6, 1964: 2, 7, 10, 11, 12
Edition history
In the past, the album was released (without the bonus tracks ) with the 1967 -established successor Jazz på ryska, which dealt with Russian folklore, as Folkvisor on CD. Some of the album was also released under the title Svenska folklatar.
Effect of the album
Jazz på svenska Sweden was in " an unimaginable success " - there, the album sold over a million by 2011 times (with eight million inhabitants ); Johansson was one of the most popular Swedish jazz musicians. Together with Bengt -Arne Wallin Old Folklore in Swedish Modern Jazz på svenska can " the emancipation of the Scandinavian jazz " to Bobo Stenson, Bugge Wesseltoft Esbjörn Svensson or be understood as the most important milestone. The music magazine Jazzwise recorded the album in the list The 100 Jazz Albums That Shook the World; Stuart Nicholson justified this with a unique approach to jazz thanks Johansson's carefully nuanced sound, the gradations of his searchlight and the fine detail of each note, which was heard on this meticulous quality recording.