View basket “Dopamine” 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 View Product Quick View Georgie Fame Cool Cat Blues Jazz | Pure Pleasure | 180g, 2LP Released 12th December 2008 £47.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Georgie Fame Cool Cat Blues £47.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Pure Pleasure SKU: PPANLP09 Formats: 180g, 2LP Released Date: 12th December 2008 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View André Previn & His Pals Shelly Manne & Red Mitchell West Side Story (Acoustic Sounds Series) Jazz | Contemporary Records (Acoustic Sounds Series) | 180g, 1LP Released 19th May 2023 £36.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders André Previn & His Pals Shelly Manne & Red Mitchell West Side Story (Acoustic Sounds Series) £36.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Contemporary Records (Acoustic Sounds Series) SKU: 7245368 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 19th May 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View ARQ (Alison Rayner Quintet) Short Stories Jazz | Blow The Fuse Records | 2LP Released 25th October 2019 £31.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders ARQ (Alison Rayner Quintet) Short Stories £31.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Blow The Fuse Records SKU: BTF1914V Formats: 2LP Released Date: 25th October 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Fred Wesley A Blow For Me, A Toot To You Jazz | Speakers Corner | 180g, 1LP Released 17th December 2021 £34.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Fred Wesley A Blow For Me, A Toot To You £34.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Speakers Corner SKU: SD18214 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 17th December 2021 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Jimmy Giuffre Music For People, Birds, Butterflies & Mosquitoes Jazz | Candid Records | 180g, 1LP Released 1st December 2023 £26.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jimmy Giuffre Music For People, Birds, Butterflies & Mosquitoes £26.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Candid Records SKU: LPCND33201 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 1st December 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Keith Jarrett Arbour Zena Jazz | ECM | 180g, 1LP Released 27th January 2014 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Keith Jarrett Arbour Zena £21.00 Genre: Jazz Label: ECM SKU: 3743505 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 27th January 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Elvis Jones & Richard Davis Heavy Sounds (Verve By Request) Jazz | Decca (UMO) / Jazz / Verve | 180g, 1LP Released 9th August 2024 £30.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Elvis Jones & Richard Davis Heavy Sounds (Verve By Request) £30.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Decca (UMO) / Jazz / Verve SKU: 6522591 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 9th August 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Miles Davis Quartet Miles Davis Quartet Jazz | Black Friday | 10", 1LP Released 4th December 2011 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Miles Davis Quartet Miles Davis Quartet £20.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Black Friday SKU: 7233353 Formats: 10", 1LP Released Date: 4th December 2011 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Chet Baker Quartet with Bobby Jaspar Chet Baker in Paris Vol. 3 Jazz | Decca | 180g, 1LP Released 30th August 2024 £26.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Chet Baker Quartet with Bobby Jaspar Chet Baker in Paris Vol. 3 £26.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Decca SKU: 6534725 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 30th August 2024 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Alice Coltrane Lord Of Lords Jazz | Superior Viaduct | 180g, 1LP Released 10th September 2018 £29.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Alice Coltrane Lord Of Lords £29.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Superior Viaduct SKU: SV150 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 10th September 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Jazz Start again
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