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 Gil Evans Orchestra Great Jazz Standards Jazz | Pure Pleasure | 180g, 1LP Released 7th July 2011 £34.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Gil Evans Orchestra Great Jazz Standards £34.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Pure Pleasure SKU: WP1270 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 7th July 2011 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Joshua Redman & Brad Mehldau Nearness Jazz | Nonesuch | 180g, 2LP, Includes Download Code Released 9th September 2016 £36.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Joshua Redman & Brad Mehldau Nearness £36.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Nonesuch SKU: 0075597945614 Formats: 180g, 2LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 9th September 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bill Frisell Orchestras Jazz | Decca (UMO) / Jazz / Blue Note | 2LP Released 19th April 2024 £35.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bill Frisell Orchestras £35.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Decca (UMO) / Jazz / Blue Note SKU: 5883740 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 19th April 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View John Scofield & Pat Metheny I Can See Your House From Here Jazz | Universal Play 33 1/3 Series | 180g, 2LP Released 30th May 2014 £36.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders John Scofield & Pat Metheny I Can See Your House From Here £36.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Universal Play 33 1/3 Series SKU: LP43020 Formats: 180g, 2LP Released Date: 30th May 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Alice Coltrane Journey in Satchidananda (Acoustic Sounds Series) Jazz | Impulse (Acoustic Sounds Series) | 180g, 1LP Released 31st March 2023 £36.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Alice Coltrane Journey in Satchidananda (Acoustic Sounds Series) £36.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Impulse (Acoustic Sounds Series) SKU: 4847635 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 31st March 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Larry Young Contrasts Jazz | Blue Note | 1LP Released 12th August 2009 £13.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Larry Young Contrasts £13.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Blue Note SKU: BLUENOTE4266 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 12th August 2009 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Nils Okland & Sigbjorn Apeland Glimmer Jazz | ECM | 1LP Released 17th November 2023 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nils Okland & Sigbjorn Apeland Glimmer £22.00 Genre: Jazz Label: ECM SKU: 5573175 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 17th November 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Stan Getz & Bill Evans Previously Unreleased Recordings (Acoustic Sounds Series) Jazz | Verve (Acoustic Sounds Series) | 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 23rd February 2024 £36.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Stan Getz & Bill Evans Previously Unreleased Recordings (Acoustic Sounds Series) £36.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Verve (Acoustic Sounds Series) SKU: 5853831 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 23rd February 2024 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Wayne Shorter Etcetera Jazz | Blue Note Tone Poet | 180g, 1LP Released 20th February 2019 £36.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Wayne Shorter Etcetera £36.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Blue Note Tone Poet SKU: 7718777 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 20th February 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Marcus Miller Laid Black Jazz | Blue Note | 2LP Released 28th September 2018 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Marcus Miller Laid Black £22.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Blue Note SKU: 6765388 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 28th September 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Jazz Start again
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