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Nils Landgren
5000 Miles

VÖ: 01.10.1999

Genre: Swedish Jazz

€17.50*

ACT 9271-2, 6 14427 92712 5

The Funk Unit :
Nils Landgren - trombone & vocals
Per Ruskträsk Johansson - saxes & wooden flute
Robert Östlund - guitars & Hammond Organ
Esbjörn Svensson - Fender Rhodes, grand piano & keybords,
Magnum Coltrane Price - Fender Bass & vocals
Janne Robertson – drums

Guest Unit:
Henrik Janson - guitar
Johan Norberg - sitar guitar
Åke Sundqvist - percussion
Magnus Öström - percussion
Dan Berglund - accoustic bass

Special guests:
Don Alias - percussion
Till Brönner - fluegelhorn
Roy Hargrove - trumpet and fluegelhorn
Tim Hagans - trumpet
Viktoria Tolstoy - vocals
Fred Wesley (BMF) - trombone

Recorded by Jan Ugand at Atlantis Studios, Stockholm between March 1998 and July 1999
Additional recordings made at Nord Studios, Stockholm, Park Studios, Tutzing, Germany, Mountain Studios, Montreux, Switzerland
Hit Factory in N.Y.C. USA and Westviking Studios, Roxbury, Connecticut, USA
Mixed by Bruce Swedien at Westviking Studios
Mastered by Claes Persson at CRP Recording, Stockholm
Produced by Siegfried Loch with Nils Landgren

The album was awarded the German Jazz Award and received an Echo nomination.

Nils Landgren

For the words versatility and curiosity, there is a synonym: Nils Landgren. Virtuosically, "Mr. Red Horn" navigates from perspective to perspective, partly because he thrives on constant change. Two souls reside in his chest: When the audience experiences him with his "Funk Unit," the Swede reveals his distinctive, relentlessly groovy side and becomes the jazz action hero. But there's also a very gentle, melancholic, highly sentimental Nils Landgren. This side of him emerges, for example, during the Advent season when the instrumentalist and singer celebrates "Christmas With My Friends," or in his ballad projects. On the trombone, he intones with unparalleled smoothness, and his uniquely textured, fragile voice touches the heart and soul with its sensitivity.