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Peaceful warrior
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Hard Bop Tango
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Idag kanns allting skit igen
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Nov 21, 2025PCD383 -
Open Every Window
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Nov 07, 2025PCD379 -
Hive Mind
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Nov 28, 2025PCD376 -
Come Give Me Love
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Dreams
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The Standard is The Standard
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With Hope
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Nov 28, 2025PCD369
Louis Prima Forever: Christmas in Swing
At long last! In the image of all the great jazz stars with any self-respect, the band Louis Prima Forever has taken up some of the immaculate standards and popular songs (by Mariah Carey, George Michael)associated with the magic of Christmas. You can catch the scent of fir trees already, so watch out... because Louis Prima Forever doesn't totally belong to the "Xmas album" tradition that reeks of squeaky-clean tinsel. These guys are as hot as chestnuts and swing so hard that Santa Claus would slip a disc. In fact this record would shake any party to life and make your Christmas feel like New Year's Day!
The First at Last / Jasper Staps & Rembrandt Frerichs
Saxophonist Jasper Staps and pianist Rembrandt Frerichs, lifelong friends with a 25-year bond and extensive shared stage experience, have combined their talents to release their eagerly awaited debut album titled The First At Last. This album aims to rekindle the spirit of genuine human interaction in jazz by focusing on musical storytelling and the inherent beauty of the genre. Backed by Staps' seasoned saxophone and Frerichs' historic 1903 Erard grand piano, the quartet highlights their passion for swinging rhythms, resonating melodies, and intricate harmonies. A fresh rhythm section, featuring Matheus Nicolaiewsky on double bass and Mitchell Damen on drums, engages in a dynamic interplay with the veterans. Their profound personal connection fortifies this musical partnership, underpinning a unique chemistry that bridges their differing artistic approaches – Staps, a craftsman driven by lyrical sounds, and Frerichs, an experimental composer. Working with Just Listen Records, renowned for capturing live energy, underscores their commitment to an unfiltered jazz encounter The First At Last celebrates their friendship while honoring their shared love for jazz.
A Handful of Stories / Angelo Verploegen Quintet
Renowned jazz trumpeter and composer Angelo Verploegen selected some of his own compositions for, A Handful of Stories, a new album with Just Listen Records. This swinging jazz quintet project, led by Verploegen, is a testament to his versatile musical journey, showcasing his unique ability to traverse various jazz styles, from straight-ahead jazz to free improvisation.
In A Handful of Stories, Verploegen takes a moment of retrospection, bringing to life a selection of original compositions crafted over the past 25 years. These compositions, designed for a variety of formations and occasions, are now reimagined by a quintet of exceptional musicians. Verploegen is joined by saxophonist Nils van Haften, pianist Marc van Roon, bassist Guus Bakker, and drummer Jasper van Hulten in this musical adventure.
The album's themes of reflection, celebration, and musical storytelling are woven throughout compositions inspired by life experiences, magical performances, and moments of reflection. This album promises to be a treasure trove of musical experiences, blending the essence of swinging jazz with the art of storytelling, all wrapped up in Verploegen's unique style.
Peaceful warrior
Hard Bop Tango
Idag kanns allting skit igen
Open Every Window
Hive Mind
Come Give Me Love
Song Dust / Karl Strømme
Song Dust is the first trio recording from trumpeter Karl Strømme. Having toured as a member of the European Union Jazz Youth Orchestra, and recorded several albums as a member of the experimental outfit Peloton, Strømme released Dynalyd, for quintet in 2019. For his NXN Recordings debut he teamed up with exciting young musicians Gard Kronborg on acoustic bass and Per-Arne Ferner on guitar. Listeners will enjoy both nods to the Westcoast jazz as well as the Nordic cool, especially through the expressive trumpet inspired by the Chet Baker trio recordings on Steeple Chase. The traditional jazz trio would often include a drummer, but you won’t miss one on Song Dust. Besides a joyful percussive part on track 5, VM all musicians are given plenty of space and time to make beautiful soundscapes and passages throughout the album.
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“Nods to West Coast jazz and Nordic cool” is an excellent description of Song Dust, Norwegian trumpeter Karl Strømme’s debut date for the Naxos label NXN Recordings. It’s also Strømme’s first trio recording, and features the somewhat unusual trio lineup of trumpet, acoustic bass guitar (Gard Kronborg) and guitar (Per-Arne Ferner).
Strømme, who teaches at the Norwegian Academy of Music, has an extensive performing and recording history that includes touring with the European Union Jazz Youth Orchestra and, most recently, his well received 2019 quintet recording Dynalyd.
An easy comparison to Strømme is Chet Baker, in both his often airy tonal quality and his phrasing and material. He emphasizes that here with the opening track, the standard “Nature Boy,” which he presents quite naturally and freely, with only minor embellishments from bass and guitar behind his trumpet lines. But elsewhere he follows his own path, particularly in his penchant for playing trumpet and synth lines simultaneously. The second track “Opal” finds him pursuing this subtly on a mostly traditional sounding post-bop piece of lovely melodic lines.
It’s almost cheating to call this a trio, and I say that with a smile, but the synthesizer is truly a fourth instrument here. The electronic keyboard-trumpet pairing is quite explicit on the brief, languid “Dance Of The Cohort,” with burbling synth sounds nearly alone in accompanying Strømme’s horn. A few songs later, the similarly brief “0502Y” presents a dreamlike soundscape that includes a Rhodes-like keyboard in addition to shimmering synth and faux glockenspiel. The only track with explicit percussion, “VM” adds handclaps and hand drums for a Latin vibe behind an engaging trumpet improvisation that to me recalls Kenny Wheeler. Lots of that “Nordic cool” vibe comes through on the mysterious “One Two Trees” with some nice atmospheric guitar from Ferner and Strømme accompanying his horn with a unison line on the synth – again, very subtly, no prog bombastics here.
Kronborg provides solid and inventive rhythm throughout, and really displays his chops on a lovely, melodic solo on the title track, which finishes the album. My favorite is the rhythmically complex “Bela Waltz,” which only truly runs on waltz time for brief melodic choruses. Ferner’s guitar moves seamlessly from rhythm to melody and back again more than once here.
Atmospheric but never background music, Song Dust is consistently engaging, upbeat, cool modern jazz.
AGreenManReview.com (Gary Whitehouse)
Dreams
Swingin' Affair Makes its Original Soundtrack
Film music soundtracks have established themselves over the years as major providers of popular tunes. But jazz is quite different, because it has always had an appetite for transforming standards into something of its own. The Swingin’ Affair quartet brings new colors to the famous melodies heard in films, adding unrivalled freshness with some sumptuous arrangements that draw on different palettes, including swing, cool jazz and bossa nova… Imagine Darth Vader playing in the Cotton Club with Duke Ellington and his Orchestra! The Swingin’ Affair quartet give a marvelous demonstration of how fertile our music heritage can be when it comes to being creative.
Out of Reach
B.O Paradiso
The Standard is The Standard
Out of Reach
With Hope
Yours Unfaithfully
Palmberg: Faces
Stars
Le Grand Michel
Johny Carlsson & the Megabones
Schyborger: In Love with the World
Knutsson & Persson: Petrichor
