View basket “Over The Years” has been added to your basket. Layers Of Light Nils Landgren & Esbjörn Svensson SKU: ACTLP9281-1 Barcode: 0614427928115 22.00 £22.00 Genre: Jazz Label: ACT Released Date: 3rd December 2021 Buying Format: 2LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Nils Landgren was born in 1956 and grew up with the music of his father, a jazz cornetist, and the church music of his grandfather, a pastor. He never lost his strong affinity for his own musical heritage. Esbjörn Svensson, born in 1964, didn’t want to play folk music at first. At home with the music of Chopin, Ellington, or disco-pop groups such as The Sweet, the pianist had first found his place in the competitive music scene in Sweden. His trio was a success and in his homeland, he was voted Jazz Musician Of The Year in 1995 and 1996. The first sprinkling of jobs became a steady flow. Svensson proved himself in the bands of his friend Nils Landgren. The music was about funk and soul, occasionally pop and, in the main, classic jazz. But not folklore. It was through the influence of Landgren and Svensson’s former teacher Bengt-Arne Wallin, who recorded the landmark album ‘Old Folklore In Swedish Modern’ back in 1962, that Svensson and Landgren were inspired to make a duo album centred around folk songs. In August 1997, both went into the studio and, with only trombone and piano, recorded ‘Swedish Folk Modern’. Their improvised treatments of the classic songs of the folk culture not only impressed the public; it brought praise from the press. Svensson and Landgren had created more than just a few impressions in duo. Discarding any sort of large conceptual superstructure, they had continued what Jan Johansson’s Jazz på Svenska and Bengt-Arne Wallin had begun in the early Sixties and what has since become a major force within the inner workings of European jazz. The time after ‘Swedish Folk Modern’ was hectic and exciting. Nils Landgren’s Funk Unit advanced to the position of a celebrated festival act. Svensson’s own trio, E.S.T., expanded beyond Scandinavia’s borders, where the band’s fortunes skyrocketed. Inundated with jobs, the musicians finally found the time to once again get together, in December 1999 in Oslo’s Rainbow Studio. It would be a meeting full of exceptional jazz energy. Even more than the first time, they would rely on the force of reduction. Moods would be suggested, left open. Melodies worked out in simple clarity. Delicate variations supplemented and amplified both the original and traditional motifs of the central musical im- pressions. ‘Layers Of Light’ is an affair of the hearts of two artists who went back to their roots. That makes their music truthful, direct and authentic in a wondrous way. Artist Nils Landgren & Esbjörn Svensson Genre Jazz Label ACT Buying Options 2LP Format 2LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings Song From The Valley (traditional) Calling The Goats (traditional) Kauk (traditional) Kristallen (traditional) Mattmar (traditional) Lakk (traditional) Höpsi (traditional) Calling The Cows (traditional) Lullaby (traditional) Simple Song (traditional) Layers Of Light (Svensson, Esbjörn) Lonely At The Lakeside (traditional) Norwegian Fox Trot (traditional) Nils Walksong (traditional) The Farewell (Wallin, Bengt-Arne) Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Jazz Nearly New View Product Quick View Lyle Mays Lyle Mays (includes interview) Jazz | Geffen Promo | 1LP Released 26th July 2013 £12.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Lyle Mays Lyle Mays (includes interview) £12.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Geffen Promo SKU: NN57843 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 26th July 2013 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Kenny Wheeler Deer Wan Jazz | ECM | 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 5th October 2016 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Kenny Wheeler Deer Wan £18.00 Genre: Jazz Label: ECM SKU: 4781118 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 5th October 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Baden Powell Baden Powell A Vontade Jazz | Soul Jazz | 1LP Released 22nd October 2012 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Baden Powell Baden Powell A Vontade £16.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Soul Jazz SKU: USLP44 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 22nd October 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Gregory Porter Issues of Life: Features and Remixes Jazz | Membran | 180g, 2LP, Includes Download Code Released 6th October 2014 £27.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Gregory Porter Issues of Life: Features and Remixes £27.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Membran SKU: 233885 Formats: 180g, 2LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 6th October 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Eddie Gale Eddie Gale’s Ghetto Music Jazz | 4 Men With Beards | 180g, 1LP Released 30th August 2016 £27.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Eddie Gale Eddie Gale’s Ghetto Music £27.00 Genre: Jazz Label: 4 Men With Beards SKU: 4M127LP Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 30th August 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Milt Jackson & Ray Charles Soul Brothers Jazz | ORG | 180g, 1LP Released 11th November 2013 £36.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Milt Jackson & Ray Charles Soul Brothers £36.00 Genre: Jazz Label: ORG SKU: AORM1082 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 11th November 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Sam Rivers Fuchsia Swing Song: Blue Note Classic Vinyl Jazz | Blue Note | 180g, 1LP Released 17th March 2023 £24.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Sam Rivers Fuchsia Swing Song: Blue Note Classic Vinyl £24.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Blue Note SKU: 4859563 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 17th March 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Ray Charles The Best of Ray Charles: The Atlantic Years Jazz | Rhino | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 26th February 2021 £33.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Ray Charles The Best of Ray Charles: The Atlantic Years £33.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Rhino SKU: 0603497845224 Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 26th February 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Nina Simone Wild Is The Wind Jazz | Back To Black | 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 11th July 2016 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nina Simone Wild Is The Wind £19.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Back To Black SKU: 5360573 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 11th July 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus Jazz | Pure Pleasure | 180g, 1LP Released 2nd November 2005 £34.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus £34.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Pure Pleasure SKU: CJS9005 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 2nd November 2005 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket See more in Jazz Start again
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