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.