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Reviews (4)
The observer
d. 25. Jan. 2020
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Dave Gelly
d. 25. Jan. 2020
"My only difficulty with this Swedish duo is in remembering which is which. Nils Landgren is the trombonist, Jan Lundgren is the pianist and they're both brilliant. Between them, they are masters of many styles, from funk and R&B to swing, but here they meet in the shared Nordic territory of jazz chamber music. It's light, precise and tranquil, tinged at times with a kind of fragile nostalgia".
Jazz journal
d. 13. Feb. 2020
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John Adcock
d. 13. Feb. 2020
"Fittingly, Landgren and Lundgren close this master class of subtle music making with a beautifully restrained version of Abdullah Ibrahim's The Wedding. As the final notes fade, you're left with the sense of having just heard something rather special. A sublime album".
JazzTimes
d. 27. Jan. 2020
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J.D. Considine
d. 27. Jan. 2020
"Lundgren is Landgren's second duet partner, the first having been the late Esbjörn Svensson, and that leaves him with some fairly big shoes to fill. Although he spends much of the album as an accompanist, backing the trombone with well-colored chords and providing lush, gently rhythmic counterpoint for Landgren's husky, Chet Baker-ish vocals, he has a strong enough sense of the blues to cut straight to the heart of Keith Jarrett's "Country," and puts enough rhythmic punch into the Beatles' "I Will" that you'd almost think someone snuck a rhythm section onto the track. In all, an understated delight".
DownBeat
2020 March
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Tyran Grillo
2020 March
"Trombonist/vocalist Nils Landgren and pianist Jan Lundgren unite for an intimate and multifaceted program. The single-vowel difference in their surnames feels appropriate, as their set consists of two distinct yet compatible decks of cards, shuffled into each other ... Amid a smattering of Swedish folksongs, including "Byssan Lull" and "Värmlandsvisan" (both reworked into delicate grooves), they plant the evergreens of "Norwegian Wood" and Keith Jarrett's "Country". Standing tallest among these, however, is Abdullah Ibrahim's "The Wedding," a tune glowing with tender nostalgia".