Ulf Wakenius: Love Is Real (2008)

Magnus Öström, Dan Berglund, Magnus Lindgren, Joel Lyssarides, Verneri Pohjola & Ulf Wakenius - e.s.t. 30 (2024) Music

Posted by delpotro at May 27, 2024

Magnus Öström, Dan Berglund, Magnus Lindgren, Joel Lyssarides, Verneri Pohjola & Ulf Wakenius - e.s.t. 30 (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 255 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 112 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:47:14
Contemporary Jazz, Modern Creative | Label: ACT Music

Love remains…In 1993, three musicians from Sweden, Esbjörn Svensson, Dan Berglund and Magnus Öström formed the band e.s.t.. Svensson and Öström had known each other ever since their first steps into music as children. Neither of them could have anticipated that e.s.t. would become the most influential band in European jazz of the noughties. And when the band formed they probably didn't think they were particularly ‘jazz’ either; all they wanted to do was to play the music which united their passions: rock, pop, classical, folk, improvisation. In the following 15 years, e.s.t. would play thousands of concerts worldwide, release ten studio albums and several live recordings, win awards, gold discs. We all know how the story ends.

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Ulf & Eric Wakenius - Father and Son (2017) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at July 7, 2023

Ulf & Eric Wakenius - Father And Son (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 50:16 minutes | 980 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

Whether father Ulf did actually place a guitar in the crib of his baby son Eric or not, here they now are unite as a guitar duo on "Father and Son", a personal album and a virtuoso conversation in the art of contemporary jazz guitar. They can swing or play gentle ballads together, go extrovert and percussive, they can tell stories from far-off lands, or sometimes from their Swedish homeland. Ulf and Eric Wakenius have a sensitivity and a sense of atmosphere which creates magical guitar moments.

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Iiro Rantala & Ulf Wakenius - Good Stuff (2017) Music

Posted by SERTiL at Oct. 26, 2017

Vienna, Rome, Seoul… Iiro Rantala and Ulf Wakenius are musicians who travel the world, always on tour as leaders of their own projects. So it was something of a fluke that this duo was able to come into existence at all. The idea first emerged in October 2015, when Rantala and Wakenius stopped off at the Philharmonie in Berlin. Siggi Loch, curator of the “Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic” concert series, had brought them together on stage for the “Tears for Esbjörn” concert. “We were part of a larger ensemble on that occasion”, Rantala remembers, “but it was clear to both of us straight away that we would want to form a duo.” This has to be seen as a very smart move, given the rarity of the piano-guitar duo in jazz – a fine exception being that of Brad Mehldau with Pat Metheny.

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VA - Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic V (Lost Hero - Tears for Esbjörn) [Live] (2016) [Official Digital Download] Vinyl & HR

Posted by Pisulik at Dec. 11, 2018

VA - Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic V (Lost Hero - Tears for Esbjörn) [Live] (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Time - 57:17 minutes | 641 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

No other European jazz pianist has had such a formative influence in his field in recent years as the Swede Esbjörn Svensson, who died far too soon in 2008. In changing constellations, moods and interpretations, Iiro Rantala, Viktoria Tolstoy, Ulf Wakenius, Lars Danielsson and Morten Lund take on some of the best-known Svensson respectively e.s.t. works. And if the album title “Tears For Esbjörn” becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy upon hearing Svensson’s most emotional piece “Love Is Real” nobody needs to be ashamed; neither for tears of sadness at the irreplaceable loss of Esbjörn Svensson, nor for tears of joy at the music he left us with.

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Ida Sand - True Love (2009) Music

Posted by tirexiss at Oct. 31, 2019

The debut release of a Scandinavian singer has seldom been as surprising as that of the Swedish vocalist Ida Sand two years ago with her album Meet Me Around Midnight (ACT 9716-2). It simply didn’t sound at all like a typical Scandinavian record. What the critics and the public heard was, “the most soulful white female singer to come along in some time” – earthy, tart, deep black, and authentically bound to gospel and blues. Beside this, another basic difference to a lot of other singers is that Ida Sand plays piano, and her singing and piano playing go hand in hand.

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V.A. - ACT: Magic Moments [3CD Box Set] (2006) Music

Posted by gribovar at May 23, 2021

Magic Moments 1 (2000). With the 1996 release of "A Little Magic In A Noisy World", the first of its anthology series, ACT began to document its repertory concept of a permanent exchange between jazz and other forms of music. The release of "Magic Moments" in January 2000 is the forth installment of this "music without borders". This time the CD combines over 40 ACTs on 18 titles.
Some of the musicians on this anthology speak the American - born language of jazz with the accent of their own mother tongue. Others add new words to the language, or expand the grammatical rules. Yet others speak in their native language, but owing to their long time away from their homeland, scatter scraps of American "slang" over their musical landscape…

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