JAN JOHANSSON: Folkvisor - Jazz på Svenska

Jan Johansson

Folkvisor - Jazz på Svenska

© 2005 Heptagon Records (7393465055306)

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Stealthy jazz combo

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  • author: Sieglinde Dieckmann

    Many thanks to you. A perfect service!! Sieglinde

  • Oooh the happiness!
    author: mads naeraa

    Thank you CD Baby and Heptagon Records. This is easily one of the most beautiful albums of the 20th century - possibly better even than Kind of Blue. Gut wrenching homesickness inducing for a Danish expat in New Zealand. I cannot recommend this highly enough.

  • Jazz pa Svenska
    author: J B

    I first heard this album in High School (1969-72) Art class. A fellow student's sister was a flight attendent and brought it back for her from a trip to Sweden. I have had those meoldies floating through my memories ever since. Sometimes I would pick out a few bars on the piano for my children and I was very excited to find that it is still available. It is so gorgeous.

  • The most beautiful record I have ever heard
    author: Fred Kinbom

    This captures "nordiskt vemod" ("Nordic melancholy" roughly translated) perfectly. Sheer beauty!

  • the swedish perfection
    author: boehler

    i heard this music for the fisrt time about twenty years ago. Since this moment i have always keep those melodies in my mind. They are just unforgetable.

  • author: D Suisman

    I learned about this record from an interview with legendary producer Joe Boyd, who counts it among his all-time favorites. It is unusual and sublime. I've never written an online review before, but this record deserves to be more widely appreciated.

  • author: Colin Douglas

    This is one of the most sublime albums I have ever had the good fortune to hear. It should be made a compulsory purchase for all humans - just listening to it makes you KNOW that all is well.

  • Haunting, but lively. Perfect road trip music - not lulling, but not road intru
    author: MC - Jazz pa Svenska

    First owned as a 78 record, then taped, scratches and all, now I have the best possible way to listen to this subtle, elegant music. I heard nuances I never even knew existed. It is my constant driving companion. What little I know about Swedish folk music doesn't seem to materialize in this music, but my visits to Sweden are readily evoked.

  • good music for sex...and dancing traditional Swedish polska.
    author: bb

    There is nothing better to listen to if you want music for sex. Other uses: if you know how to dance Swedish poslka or Norwegian pols you can actually dance these to this music and enjoy the dance with a less traditional feeling. If you like this music you might want to listen to some traditional Swedish polska music, there are similarities in feeling. My opinion is that this cd is just the BEST.

  • deeply moving example of complete artistic integrity
    author: hugo-s.k.

    An ideal and intelligent coupling of folk tunes with a jazz twist by artists with a thorough understanding of the 'classical' idiom.(think of Jimmy Giuffre meeting a Swedish John Lewis). Deeply melancholic and moving music not to be labelled or categorised. Why this recording and artist are not more known outside Sweden is completely beyond me ! Highly recommended.

  • the perfet music for a dark winter night at home
    author: Christian

    Phantastic and intelligent! It seems the perfect music for a dark winter night with a good red wine.

  • expertly brings you into the swedish landscape
    author: Jazz på svenska

    forever perfect

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