more Jazz

Yesterday evening, I attended a "Jam Session" at mejeriet in Lund, Sweden. Nothing strange with that you may ask. The idea of the night was that anyone, could get up and play some jazz during the evening. The first four songs were played by the house band, The Christoffer Andersson Trio, who were very tight and played just the kind of jazz I like with piano, double bass and drums. Then after the fourth song up jumped two Swedish 15/16 year olds and started playing with the band. I was so impressed with the level of their guitar/double bass playing that I congratulated them in the break. It shows that Jazz is alive and well, in Sweden and Lund at least.

I also got up and sung the first verse of "Summertime" with the band's accompaniment. Fluffed up the words once or twice, but it was a good feeling and I thoroughly enjoyed myself. Next time I'll go prepared with more stuff.

Jazz...nice

Went to see "Daniel Karlsson's" sextet yesterday at a venue called Mejeriet (literally translated means "the dairy") who played a mix of self-written jazz ballads and more lively numbers. Karlsson had own the title of "Swedish Jazz musician of the year 2005" and was on tour with his band, two drummers, double-bass, trumpet and sax. The concept of two drummers was a bit too much and one was much more eratic than the other, jumping off his seat to pling a triangle or shake a rattler. The brass section was well-toned and play in harmony at the beginning of a song before either the sax, double-bass or piano went into a melodic solo section before going back to the beginning phrase again. The trumpet solo was very technically fascinating but at times was drowned out bny the two drummers behind him having a bash.

After the traditional long hand clap after the musicians had left the stage we got to hear a mellower number with just the piano, bass and drums as an encore number. Not the best ever jazz band I've ever seen and the two drummer concept meant that the music was lost sometime between the snare and the cymbol.