Nils Landgren Funk Unit "Funky ABBA" live at JazzBaltica 2004

Photo © by: ACT / Johan Bergmark

The Funk Unit:
Nils Landgren - Trombone, Vocals
Magnum Coltrane Price - Vocals, Keyboard
Annika Granlund - Vocals, Trumpet
Jessica Pilnäs - Vocals
Karl-Martin Almqvist - Tenor Saxophone
Henrik Janson - Guitar
Lars DK Danielsson - Bass
Robert Östlund - Keyboard
Wolfgang Haffner - Drums
Special Guests:
Viktoria Tolstoy - Vocals
Roy Hargrove - Trumpet
Terri Lyne Carrington - Drums
Peter Weniger - Tenor Saxophone
Sharon Dyall - Vocals

recorded live at Große Konzertscheune Salzau, July 2004

1. Dancing Queen
2. Gimme!Gimme!Gimme!
3. Voulez-vous
4. When All Is Said And Done
5. Summer Night City
6. Knowing Me, Knowing You
7. Take A Chance On Me
8. Super Trooper
9. S.O.S.
10. Thank You For The Music
11. You Dig

Exactly 30 years after ABBA’s international breakthrough at the Eurovision Song Contest, Nils Landgren has undertaken a highly personal tribute to one of the greatest pop bands ever, working together with his grooving band, which "drives young people into a frenzy and yet also is taken seriously by the snobbish jazz lovers" (Spiegel).The new album is called FUNKY ABBA – and Nils can call it that with much justification, through his long-standing friendship with Benny Andersson. Twenty-five years ago, on the strength of his special trombone sound, Benny asked the fresh-faced Nils to join him in the studio to play on the ABBA song "Voulez-Vous". This time it was the other way round: Benny couldn’t wait to take part on at least one track of FUNKY ABBA.

JazzBaltica Ensemble 2007 dir. by Steven Bernstein

Steven Bernstein - cond., slide tp

Axel Schlosser - tp
Nils Landgren - tb
Karl-Martin Almqvist - ts
Jukka Perko - as
Marcin Wasilewski - p
Lars Danielsson - b
Christopher Dell - vib
Wolfgang Haffner - dr

recorded live at JazzBaltica Salzau, Germany, June 28, 2007

Tracklist:
1. Happy Hour Blues
2. Cod 21
3. Interview
4. New Viper Dance
5. HSJ
6. We Are MTO/ Harlem

The ‘core cell’ of JazzBaltica, the JazzBaltica Ensemble, has been getting together every year. This small ‘big band’, which is always made up of different artists, includes top-flight musicians from Scandinavia, Germany and the Baltic regions, with names such as Lars Danielsson, Nils Landgren, Marcin Wasilewski, Axel Schlosser, Wolfgang Haffner and Jukka Perko. Their mission is to develop special programmes for the ‘Festival of Baltic Jazz’. In 2007 the Enesemble was directed by the ubiquitious trumpeter, slide trumpeter, arranger/composer, and bandleader Steven Bernstein, best known for his work with John Lurie´s Lounge Lizards and his own band Sex Mob.

JazzBaltica-Ensemble directed by Wolfgang Haffner JazzBaltica 2006

JazzBaltica-Ensemble directed by Wolfgang Haffner
JazzBaltica 2006

Wolfgang Haffner - Drums, Leader
Axel Schlosser - Trumpet
Nils Landgren - Trombone
Karl-Martin Almqvist - Tenor Saxophone
Jukka Perko - Alto Saxophone
Marcin Wasilewski - Piano
Sebastian Studnitzky - E-Piano, Trumpet
Lars Danielsson - Bass
Christopher Dell - Vibraphone
Biboul Darouiche - Percussion

Tracklist:
1. Faithless
2. Crusin
3. Shapes
4. Silent Way
5. 24 Hours
6. Some Other Time
7. Space Calzone

all tunes composed by Wolfgang Haffner
This is another live concert of the tunes known from Wolfgang´s great CD´s "Shapes" an "Acoustic Shapes" on the ACT Music Label:
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