Second Line Jazzband
Papa’s In The Icebox
PERSONNEL
Anders Östlund (drms); Jesper Albrektsson (tpt vcls); Per Bach (bs); Olof Skoog (reeds vcls); Niklas Carlsson (tmb vcls); Anders Wasén (bjo).
TRACKS
Dans Les Rues d’Antibes + Cheek-To-Cheek + Crazy + South + Jump, Jive an’ Wail + He Looked Beyond My Faults + One Sweet Letter From You + Panama Rag + Söndag I Sängen + Lead Me Saviour + Fidgety Feet + Basin Street Blues + Buena Sera.
This is the 4th album from this six-piece group who had reached a decade of playing together. The dozen plus one tracks are a nice mix, portraying in excellent form that the Second Liners had come of age – so to speak.
The recordings are in part “Easy Listening” single takes; “Songs” He Looked Beyond My Faults a.k.a. Danny Boy and Söndag I Sängen, which in 1994 became a hit song in Sweden. The follow through sees the group move forward from being instrumentalists in the main, to finding their feet in Fidgety Feet at fast and furious tempi, through Basin Street Blues leading into Lead Me Saviour so becoming a fine jazz band destined for operating in the high league.
Buena Sera has an addendum to it which brought me back to the Rock & Roll and Twist periods into a theme based on the 1920 Yerkis Jazarmba Orchestra of Shake Rattle & Roll which leads me on to the “Second Live” album by the Second Line Jazzband.
CD 2092-2, Music Mecca Aps, PO Box 2208, DK-1018 Copenhagen K, Denmark.
SECOND LIVE
Second Line
Jazzband with gospel singer Pauline Pearce
TRACKS
Swing Low Sweet Chariot + Sweet Lorraine + High Society + Out Of Nowhere + The Sheik Of Araby – When You’re Smiling + Amazing Grace + Careless Love Blues + Eh La Bas + He Looked Beyond My Faults + Weary Blues + Moonlight & Roses + Louisiana-Ay.
BIEM BJMCD04
There
are twelve recordings produced live at the following locations:- 5 at TV-Shows
Bingolotto; 2 in the Just In Time Jazz Club and 1 at Hangelösa kyrka - church in Skaraslätten, featuring Pauline
Pearce; and the remaining three at Vallby Friluftsteater in Västerås open air
theatre, and another one at the Kungshamn/Smögen Traditional jazz festival,
from August 1998 through April 2000.
One facit apparent which comes to light listening to these two CDs, is, on how the band matures musically.
I was impressed by the Second Liners when I went to the Carshalton Jazz Club, Surrey, England, on Tuesday the 11th of July 2000 to hear them, and I was immediately struck by how young they all looked – see below review sent to the Croydon Advertiser who did not find space to publish it.
The Swedish accent on the band’s English vocals is appealing and well worth preserving – even more pronounced.
Gospel singer Pauline Pearce the star of the album, brings a large impact to it, with her stirring, passion filled, power based, embracing vocals, giving great depth and fulfilment, pronounced on Amazing Grace with nice complementing supporting evidence coming from the group as they rise professionally to the occasion.
The band indulge in incorporating numerous “Quotes” into their music, and I guess in a sense, serves for popular demand, noted in The Sheik as an example per When You’re Smiling.
One can enjoy two hours of good sound quality music, with inner strands of fine jazz flowing through, in these recordings.
Ian King
Kings Jazz Review, 21 July 2000
The
Editor
Croydon
Advertiser
Dear
Sir
For
the attention of Roger Bing please.
Review:-
The
stars fell on the Charles Cryer Studio Theatre under a bright moonlight night,
Tuesday 11 July, in contrast to the rain soaked final days of the sensational
first in the millennium 2000 year Wimbledon tennis fortnight.
The
Carshalton Jazz Club staged a Second Line Jazz Band from Sweden, a band that
the full house of this delightful, compact theatre, when asked, had come to
listen to them for the first time of their lives.
I
was struck by how such youth, and their enthusiasm, matched advanced
professionalism.
The
musical trumpet quote of Louis Prima on "My Blue Heaven" came to me
in telepathic form, as the foyer of the theatre displayed leaflets of the
Jungle Book show, as it was Prima who featured on the soundtrack of Walt
Disney's 1966 cartoon film.
Mozart
was heard coming from the altoist's clarinet, call and response, with string
bass in evidence on "South" giving one an insight to the
improvisation and arrangements skills of this six-piece, New Orleans, Dixieland
styled Swedish jazz band led by banjoist Anders Wasén.
The
last engagement of their tour is on Sunday 16 July at the Preston Cross Hotel,
Rectory Lane, Little Bookham, and to hear saxophones perform at their best, ask
to hear this Second Line Jazz Band from Sweden play "Savoy Blues" if
you are there.
Ian
King
Kings
Jazz Review
www.jazzking.cwc.net