Showing posts with label Robert Östlund. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Robert Östlund. Show all posts

July 28, 2010

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.

October 06, 2009

Nils Landgren Funk Unit live in Burghausen 2000

Nils Landgren (tb, voc)
Per "Rusktrask" Johansson (sax, fl)
Jesper Nordenström (p)
Robert Östlund (g)
Magnum Coltrane Price (b)
Hakan Landgren (perc)
Niklas Gabrielsson (dr)

recorded live at 31. International Jazzweek Burghausen, Wackerhalle Burghausen,
May 19, 2000

1. Walk Tall
2. Glen and Steve
3. Stop By
4. Compare To What
5. Ain´t Nobody

My favourite album by Nils Landgren´s Funk Unit is still the 1999 burner "5000 Miles", feat. Esbjörn Svensson, Tim Hagans, Roy Hargrove, Till Brönner, Fred Wesley, just to name a few... of course released on ACT: