Nils Landgren Chrismas With My Friends VI

"Christmas With My Friends VI" is a celebration, and everyone who enjoys exceptionally good Christmas songs from Bach to ABBA in new and characterful interpretations is most welcome to it. The established ensemble reinterprets also in the sixth issue Christmas songs from all over the world in a jazz spirit, bringing together the well-known with the less familiar, combining the cheerful with the contemplative.

Christmas without the songs – it's unthinkable. And yet how can one be open to different musical styles and also strike a good balance between them? How can all the right moods for the festive season be captured? Should it be classical or soulful, gospel or pop, blues or jazz? The result can often be just one style of singing from one person – but that’s not the case with Nils Landgren's "Christmas With My Friends". A sequence which would normally have had to be patched together from a wide range of interpreters is all there, and from just the one source. Alongside the Swedish trombonist/singer himself, there are four vocalists, Jeanette Köhn, Ida Sand, Jessica Pilnäs and Sharon Dyall, and their fundamentally different voices allow them to combine many musical genres. The way these four co-exist so harmoniously is just one o...

Line up:

Nils Landgren / trombone, vocals
Sharon Dyall / vocals
Jonas Knutsson / saxophon
Jeanette Köhn / vocals
Eva Kruse / bass
Jessica Pilnäs / vocals
Ida Sandlund / vocals, piano
Johan Norberg / guitar

Recording Information:

Produced by Nils Landgren with Johan Norberg
Cover design by Siggi Loch, based on David Ortins / ACT Art Collection
Music arranged by Christmas With My Friends
Recorded by Janne Hansson at Atlantis Studio, Stockholm, December 18-20, 2017
Additional recordings by Johan Norberg at Krubaston, Stockholm
Mixed and mastered by Lasse Nilsson at Nilento Studios, Gothenburg (Kållered)
Production team at Nilento: Michael Dahlvid, Joar Hallgren and Jenny Nilsson

Track List:

1. Chrismas Is ( Eva Kruse & Peter Liljeqvist)03:00
2. Oh No, It's Christmas Again ( Johan Norberg/Nils Landgren)02:34
3. Who Comes This Night ( Dave Grusin/Sally Stevens)03:47
4. Wie soll ich dich empfangen ( Johann S. Bach/Paul Gerhardt)02:02
5. Little Drummer Boy / Peace On Earth ( Katherine K. Davis, Harry Simeone & Henry Onorati / Ian Fraser, Larry Grossman & Alan Kohan)03:16
6. Come One, Come All ( Jonas Knutsson/Sharon Dyall)04:01
7. What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? ( Frank Loesser)03:31
8. The Story of Christmas ( Evelina Gard)02:57
9. I Have A Dream ( Benny Andersson & Björn Ulvaeus)02:58
10. Merry Christmas Baby ( Lou Baxter & Johnny Moore)03:00
11. Christmas Lullaby ( John Rutter)03:58
12. When This Night Is Over ( Jessica Pilnäs)03:56
13. I'd Like You For Christmas ( Bobby Troup)03:05
14. Hymn No III ( Johan Norberg & Nils Landgren)01:51
15. Den signade dag ( traditional, Johan Olof Wallin)03:25
16. Hark! The Heald Angles Sing ( Felix M. Bartholdy/Charles Wesley)04:11