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GILBERT HOLMSTRÖM
- A Celebration of 50 Years in Jazz
Anagram CD
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“Gilbert Holmström - A
Celebration of 50 Years in Jazz”
Gilbert Holmström has been a
professional jazz musician for just on 50 years. He combined his
musical career with that of a dentist, filling cavities by day and
concert halls and clubs by night. During the early years he played
straight modern jazz with strong free overtones and later, with his
group “Mount Everest”, free jazz and fusion. The performances on
this CD are drawn from the mid-sixties and showcase some of the best
of Gilbert Holmström’s free jazz playing from that period.
The first four
tracks make up “Liten Jazzsvit” on which Gilbert Holmström plays
C-melody saxophone, and shows off his compositional skills. The
ensemble playing consists of his colleagues from the Thomas Fehling
Sextet plus Hans Löfman on bass and Fredrik Norén on drums. The
final three tracks feature Brian Trentham, a quite brilliant
American trombone player, who was on an extended sojourn in Sweden
with Don Cherry and George Russell.
In introducing
“Liten Jazzsvit” the Swedish jazz critic Ingemar Glanzelius said,
“You may sit there and miss notes, sounds and rhythms from the jazz
music you are accustomed to. You may wonder what it is he is
actually trying to say with his music…Relax. He has no other motive
than that of rhythmic music. This music contains no deliberate
symbols, none other than those you yourselves may create...”
Gilbert
Holmström -
C-melody saxophone; Arne Larsson
- cornet; Thomas Fehling - tenor saxophone; Clas Fehling - piano;
Hans Löfman - bass; Lars Burman - bass; Jackie Sundvall - drums;
Fredrik Norén - drums; Anders Söderling - drums; Brian Trentham -
trombone
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