Peter Weniger & David Friedman: Duo Élegance live at Birdland, Hamburg, 2010

Peter Weniger (sax)
David Friedman (vib)

recorded live at Jazzclub Birdland, Hamburg, November 13, 2010

1. Improvisation Alpha (Weniger/ Friedman)
2. O Grande Amor (A.C. Jobim)
3. Emily (Johnny Mandel)
4. So In Love (Cole Porter)
5. Pent-up House (Sonny Rollins)
6. Cançion de triste (David Friedman)
7. Lover (Richard Rodgers/ Lorenz Hart)

On their duo album "Rétro" (Skip Records) Vibrafonist David Friedman and saxofonist Peter Weniger dive into a cosmos of captivating beauty, that one listens breathlessly as classic compositions like "Body And Soul" or Cole Porter's "So In Love" are transposed into pure poetry. A duo - recording of casualness and authenticy. 

 

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.

Tim Hagans and the JazzBaltica Ensemble 2000

JazzBaltica Ensemble dir. by Tim Hagans

Tim Hagans – cond, tp, flh
Jukka Perko – ss, as
Vytautas Labutis – ss, as
Peter Weniger – ss, ts, fl
Per Goldschmidt – bs
Lars Lindgren – tp
Tomasz Stanko – tp
Robert Majewski – tp
Nils Landgren – tb
Sebastian Hoffmann – tb
Vladislav Sendecki – p
Lars Danielsson – b
Lisbeth Diers – perc
Anders Kjellberg – dr

recorded live at JazzBaltica Salzau, Germany, June 10, 2000

Tracklist:
1. No Words
2. Garage Band
3. Shorts
4. Lost In My Suitcase
5. Drum Row
6. From The Neck Down

Tim Hagans did some realy great Big Band recordings with the Swedish Norbotten Big Band, e.g. my favourite Big Band record "FUTURE MILES" on ACT Music:

Peter Weniger Project at JazzBaltica 2000

Peter Weniger – reeds
Lars Danielsson – b
Jukkis Uotila – dr
Tim Hagans – tp
Conrad Herwig – tb

recorded live at JazzBaltica Salzau, Germany, June 10, 2000

Tracklist:
1. People´s Case
2. Love Song
3. Scrootch
4. Space Dozen
5. Antonin

Peter Weniger released about ten records, the latest called "Sing Yourself A Dream":