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To Sweden with Love is an album of Swedish folk music by Art Farmer's Quartet featuring guitarist Jim Hall recorded in Stockholm in 1964 and originally released on the Atlantic label.

Farmer's account was that his band was touring in Sweden not long after the Swedish pianist Jan Johansson had had a commercially successful recording of Swedish folk songs; a record company official "comes to me and says, 'How about you guys do an album of Swedish folk songs?' I said, 'We don't know any Swedish folk songs.' [...] He said, 'Okay, I’ll get the music'"..

The Allmusic review states "The band's cool and restrained style suits the music perfectly, turning it into jazz without losing its essence" - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3v3FbzlYVo&list=RDq3v3FbzlYVo&start_radio=1

#artfarmer #jimhall #swedishfolkmusic #steveswallow #jazz #1964inmusic #jazzinsweden #petelaroca

To Sweden with Love by Art Farmer LP cover

Ended the weekend and greeted the week after a swim with Life Goes On by Carla Bley, Andy Sheppard and Steve Swallow, released on ECM in 2020

Tyran Grillo wrote for ECM Reviews:

"For its third ECM outing, pianist Carla Bley’s trio with saxophonist Andy Sheppard and bassist Steve Swallow mixes up an antidote for these times of uncertainty and quarantine. The title suite is the first of three comprising the program. Given that “Life Goes On” came out of a recent brush with illness, it’s fitting that Bley should begin in the dark whimsy of the blues. Her left hand plows fertile soil before leaving Sheppard and Swallow to sow their thematic crop. Years of experience and collaboration funnel into Swallow’s intimate rapport with Bley and into Sheppard’s unforced, spiritual playing. The latter, whether breathing through tenor or soprano, takes two steps forward for every retreat.."

https://ecmreviews.com/2020/05/02/bley-sheppard-swallow-life-goes-on-ecm-2669/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz0_l3maHG8

#carlabley #andysheppard #steveswallow #ecm #ecmreviews

All-Time-Favourite: Carla Bley and Steve Swallow - "Very Simple Song":

>>> https://youtu.be/5ot7IjSlCY4

#music #jazz #fun #humor #simple #carlabley #steveswallow #piano #bass

@jazz

John Scofield – guitar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Scofield

Bill Stewart – drums
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Stewart_(musician)

Steve Swallow – bass
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Swallow

"Swallow Tales"
(ECM 2020)
https://songwhip.com/john-scofield/swallow-tales

#nowlistening #jazz #music #musique #JazzMusic
#JohnScofield
#BillStewart
#SteveSwallow

Song of the Day May 11 2024

In remembrance of the birth of Carla Bley

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carla_Bley

Carla Bley and Steve Swallow - "Lawns"

https://youtu.be/YkBU5aM_6zM?si=m4cXVtKJetzCF5Gj

#SongOfTheDay #SOTD #SOTD2024 #May11 #CarlaBley #SteveSwallow #Lawns #Jazz #Music #MusicVIdeo #2010s

Song of the Day May 11 2024

In remembrance of the birth of Carla Bley

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carla_Bley

Carla Bley and Steve Swallow - "Lawns"

https://youtu.be/YkBU5aM_6zM?si=m4cXVtKJetzCF5Gj

#SongOfTheDay #SOTD #SOTD2024 #May11 #CarlaBley #SteveSwallow #Lawns #Jazz #Music #MusicVIdeo #2010s

#NP: #NowPlaying:

Gary Burton, Pat Metheny, Steve Swallow & Antonio Sanchez - 'Quartet Live' (2009)

#GaryBurton, #PatMetheny & #SteveSwallow reunited in 2005, performing classic and new tunes together with #AntonioSanchez. The guitar-vibes combination remains special.

#NP: #NowPlaying:

Carla Bley with Andy Sheppard & Steve Swallow - 'Life Goes On' (2020)

More and more smooth, soft, sweet and still adventurous and gorgeous jazz by #AndySheppard, #SteveSwallow and the great late #CarlaBley. What a treasure she was.

#NP: #NowPlaying:

Carla Bley with Andy Sheppard & Steve Swallow - 'Andando El Tiempo' (2016)

Smooth, soft, sweet and still adventurous and gorgeous jazz by #AndySheppard, #SteveSwallow and the great late #CarlaBley. What a treasure she was.

Listening to Carly Bley last weekend and learning today that she died yesterday (1936-2023). #111Words #CarlaBley #SteveSwallow #AndySheppard #Music #Jazz #Composers #ECMRecords https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2023/10/listening-to-carly-bley-last-weekend.html

Immense musicienne #CarlaBley https://www.radiofrance.fr/personnes/carla-bley If music be the food of love play on.. par #SteveSwallow #RadioFrance

#NP: #NowPIaying:

Carla Bley - 'Heavy Heart' (1984)

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#playall #playallyourvinylsagain #playallyouralbumsagain #albumcollection #Bley #CarlaBley #MichaelMantler #SteveSwallow #KennyKirkland #HiramBullock

#NP: #NowPlaying:

The Carla Bley Band - 'Live!' (1982)

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#playall #playallyourvinylsagain #playallyouralbumsagain #albumcollection #Bley #CarlaBley #MichaelMantler #SteveSwallow

#NP: #NowPlaying:

Carla Bley - 'Social Studies' (1981)

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#playall #playallyourvinylsagain #playallyouralbumsagain #albumcollection #Bley #CarlaBley #MichaelMantler #SteveSwallow

Gary Burton and Steve Swallow - "Hotel Hello" (1975)

#NowPlaying #GaryBurton #SteveSwallow #ECMRecords #vinyl #vinylrecords @vinylrecords

Album cover features photo of a hotel on the edge of a shore. The setting sun reflects off of the water.

Photographs of the artists, from the back cover

@12thRITS @profchander I had the good fortune to see Hall with Joey Baron and Scott Colley in Basel in 2010 (three-and-a-half years before he died in 2013 at 83). What a brilliant show. And now I’ve found this much faster version of “My Little Suede Shoes” from Art Farmer’s 1964 “Interaction", with Hall, Steve Swallow, and Walter Perkins. Great stuff! https://youtu.be/2EMa3w_Q8B0

#Jazz #Music #ArtFarmer #JimHall #SteveSwallow #WalterPerkins