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Rusconi releases 'It's a Sonic Life' (Sony Music)
March 23, 2010
RUSCONI approaches Sonic Youth, the mother of all 'noise rock' bands from an unusual angle. On its fourth album, the young Swiss trio has pulled off nothing short of a fascinating reappraisal of one of the most unusual musical oeuvres of the late 20th and the early 21st century. The album has already been released in Switzerland and Korea on march 19, Germany and Austria will follow on april 2.
Jan Lundgren: no 1 in Jazz Journal Critics Poll
March 1, 2010
UK Jazz Journal's Critics Poll, consisting of 30 jazz reviewers, selected the album The Film Music of Ralph Rainger with bassist Chuck Bergofer, pianist Jan Lundgren and drummer Joe LaBarbera (released by Fresh Sound in 2008) as no 1 album of the year, together with Tomasz Stanko's Dark Eyes album (ECM)
Jan Lundgren: Originals selected for new series of Wallander movies
René Hess, february 2010
The two original compositions "Avenue de Wagram" and "Belgian Blues" by Swedish jazz pianist Jan Lundgren as well as "Waltz for Philipp", composed by bassist Mattias Svensson, (a long-time member of the Jan Lundgren Trio) have been selected for a new series of films about Henning Mankell's popular detective Kurt Wallander. The two movies in question are "The Phantom" and "The Heritage". Both will be released (together with the whole series) in Scandinavia as DVD during spring 2010. All 13 movies will be shown on TV4 in Sweden and Canal+ during 2009-2011. The first movie, The Revenge, premiered on cinemas in Sweden in 2009 and attracted around 130,000 visitors.
All 13 movies are co-productions between Yellowbird, TV4 Sweden and ARD/DEGETO in Germany. Pianist Jan Lundgren lives and works in Ystad on the Baltic sea, the home town of the legendary Kurt Wallander.
Lars Danielsson : Tarantella elected jazz album of the year 2009 at NDR
ACT, january 2010
We are happy to announce, that the album Tarantella (ACT 9477-2) by Lars Danielsson was awarded album of the year 2009 by the listeners of NDR radio, one of Germanys’ biggest public radio stations. The album features Lars Danielsson’s close musical partner Leszek Mozdzer on piano and also enhances the successful duo with Norwegian trumpeter Mathias Eick, British guitarist John Parricelli, and the American drummer Eric Harland.
Stefan Gerdes, editor of NDR play jazz stated: “Lars Danielsson is a modern romanticist with a big heart and a big tone. The music on Tarantella has been recorded with the sound of today but flows so timelessly and seductive, that it makes you want to float on it through the day. It’s hard to choose what to admire more about Danielsson: For his achievement as an instrumentalist, as a bandleader, as a composer – as a creator of strong, memorable and at the same time fresh melodies, as they are rarely to be found in jazz.
Rusconi: Jury and Public's Choice Award for "One up Down Left Right"
January 2010
At the 45th Filmdays of Solothurn the Clip "One Up Down Left Right" from Rusconi wins the Jury Award and the Public's Choice Award in the category Sound and Stories.
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