View basket “Previously Unreleased Recordings (Acoustic Sounds Series)” 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 Jackie McLean Vertigo Jazz | Blue Note | 1LP Released 11th February 2009 £14.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jackie McLean Vertigo £14.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Blue Note SKU: LT1085 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 11th February 2009 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Freddie Hubbard Blue Spirits (Tone Poet) Jazz | Blue Note Tone Poet | 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 5th May 2023 £33.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Freddie Hubbard Blue Spirits (Tone Poet) £33.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Blue Note Tone Poet SKU: 3856838 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 5th May 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Miles Davis Someday My Prince Will Come Jazz | Music On Vinyl | 180g, 1LP Released 27th June 2012 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Miles Davis Someday My Prince Will Come £19.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Music On Vinyl SKU: MOVLP494 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 27th June 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Paco De Lucia, Al Di Meola and John McLaughlin Paco De Lucia, Al Di Meola and John McLaughlin Jazz | Verve | 1LP Released 29th August 2018 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Paco De Lucia, Al Di Meola and John McLaughlin Paco De Lucia, Al Di Meola and John McLaughlin £16.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Verve SKU: 5383225 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 29th August 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Nina Simone Black Gold Jazz | Music On Vinyl | 180g, 1LP Released 10th January 2020 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nina Simone Black Gold £21.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Music On Vinyl SKU: MOVLP195 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 10th January 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Phineas Newborn Jr. A World of Piano! 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