ACT Music Set to Release Two New Albums:
Pianist Michael Wollny Trio's Weltentraum and
Trombonist Nils Landgren's Eternal Beauty,
Available March 25, 2014
Keeping up with its tradition of presenting forward thinking and innovative jazz, ACT Music is set to release albums from the Michael Wollny Trio and trombonist/vocalist Nils Landgren. Pianist Wollny is set to release Weltentraum with a recently revised trio, and Landgren will release Eternal Beauty with a newly expanded band. Both records will be available on March 25.
Wollny, best known as being one third of a thrillingly inventive young contemporary piano trio featuring Tim Lefebvre and Eric Schaefer, is a musician who knows no boundaries in his search for new jazz 'standards.' "Not a
jazz standard in the traditional sense," he points out, but "it also
simply describes a song as a starting point that enables the musicians
to grow a tune on top of it, a great melody and a few chords. In that
respect I consider all of these tunes 'standards.'"
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| Michael Wollny Trio |
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| Nils Landgren Quintet |
Landgren has once again reverted to the select band of brothers Wollny, Lars Danielsson, and Rasmus Kihlberg with the further addition of guitarist Johan Norberg
who Landgren has performed with on and off for decades. "It is my dream
team, and one that I hope will play together for a long time," says Landgren of this group. It is also ideal for the approach that Landgren pursued on Eternal Beauty:
"I wanted to make a really homogenous record - just us playing the
simple and beautiful melodies simply and beautifully." The album title
indicates the direction that the songs chosen by Landgren, Wollny,
Norberg and producer Siggi Loch took: "The music and lyrics had to fit
us, and they had to be songs that are eternal for me, personally."
Most of the songs on Eternal Beauty
should resonate with many listeners, with tracks ranging from George
Harrison's "Isn't It A Pity" to Mr. Mister's "Broken Wings" on through
to "We Don't Need Another Hero", made popular by Tina Turner. He also
includes jazz ballads like "One More Angel" from the jazz bassist John
Patitucci, and "Another Kind Of Blue" by the New York-based German
guitarist Torsten de Winkel. Michael Wollny wrote the title track
together with Eva Svensson, Esbjörn Svensson's widow.
Much is left up to this talented team
that Landgren trusts without reservation. Landgren explains, "We did
have an idea of how we could play each of the songs, but we didn't
prescribe much and we arranged them very sparingly, because with these
guys the musical concept arises when we meet. When we start to play, the
magic begins."
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| Michael Wollny - Weltentraum Official EPK with subtitles |
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| Nils Landgren Quintet - Eternal Beauty |
Michael Wollny Trio · Weltentraum
ACT Music · Release Date: March 25, 2014
For more information on Michael Wollny, please visit: Michael-Wollny.de
Nils Landgren · Eternal Beauty
ACT Music · Release Date: March 25, 2014
For more information on Nils Landgren, please visit: NilsLandgren.com
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