Track List
FRANCE
1. The Quintet of the Hot Club of France – “Nuages”- Recorded
in London Feb 1946
Django Reinhart Guitar, Stephan Grappelli violin plus Jack
Llewellyn and Alan Hodgkiss guitars and Coleridge Goode on bass.
2. “Lullaby of Birdland” Blossom Dearie and the Blue Stars - Paris 1954
3. Michel Petrucciani “Besame Mucho” Live in Frankfurt 1997
ITALY
4. Enrico Rava, trumpet “Improvisation 1” from the LP/CD “New
York Days” 2008, Stefano Bollani (piano), Mark Turner (tenor sax), Larry
Grenadier (bass) Paul Motian (drums).
GERMANY
5. Lotte Lenya and cast of Kirt Weil's Treepenny Opera “Mack the Knife” 1930
6. Jutta Hipp “These Foolish Things” June 1953 with Franz
“Shorty” Roeder (bass), Karl Sanner (drums), Albert Mangelsdorff (trombone),
Hans Killer (tenor sax).
POLAND
Very strong jazz tradition. Polanski film soundtracks,
Komeda, Tomas Stanko and his young band played Cambridge Corn Exchange 2004.
7. “Austin” Marcin Wasilewski (piano), Slawomir Kurkiewicz
(bass), Michal Miskiewicz (drums), Joakim Milder (tenor sax). from the CD Spark of Life
Nigel Kennedy the violinist based in Krakow
SOVIET UNION (USSR)
8. “Encore 1”, Ganelin Trio- Vyacheslav Ganelin (piano),
Vladimir Tarasov (drums), Vladimir Chekasin (saxophones). From the 1983 Live in Moscow CD “Con Affetto”,
FINLAND
9. “Finnish Schnapps”,Esa Pethman (sax), Pekka Poyry (alto
sax) Helkki Rosendahl (trumpet), Heikki Sarmanto (piano) Anssi Pethman (drums) .
From the 1964 LP “The Modern Sound of Finland – The music of Esa Pethman”.
SWEDEN
10. “Lover come back to me”, Lars Gullin Big Band 1956 from
the disc “Lars Gullin Swings”
NORWAY
11. “Lines” Arild Anderson (bass),Vassilis Tsabropoulos
(piano), John Marshall (drums) from the 2003 ECM CD “Triangle”
BACK TO SWEDEN
12. “Tuesday Wonderland” Esbjorn Svensson Trio (EST),
Esbjorn Svensson (piano),Dan Berglund (bass), Magnus Ostrom (drums) – from
“Live in Hamburg”
BACK TO NORWAY
13. “Karin’s Mode”, Jan Garbarek (sax), Terje Rypdal
(guitar), Arild Anderson (bass), Jon Christensen (drums) from the 1969 Japanese CD “Esoteric Circle”.
14. “Prelude” Tord Gustavsen Quartet, Tord Gustavsen
(piano), Tore Brunborg (tenor sax), Mats Eilertsen (bass), Jarle Vespestad
(drums)
