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Berndt Egerbladh
Vinyl
SEK 299.00
Egerbladh's lost masterpiece, resurrected as an LP 43 years after it was recorded. A commissioned Swedish Radio session, rescued from a cassette kept by his nephew Mats Öberg. Limited edition 12-inch vinyl, six tracks.
Irene Sjögren Quintet
P-Vine's first press limited Japanese LP reissue with obi of the 1986 Dragon classic, including the jazz bossa favourite "The Real Guitarist In The House".
CD
SEK 149.00
P-Vine's Japanese CD reissue of the 1986 Dragon classic, recorded at Studio 7, Swedish Radio, in September 1985. Long out of print and hard to find.
Charlie Parker
SEK 100.00
Two concerts and a late-night jam from Parker's November 1950 Swedish visit, with Rolf Ericson and Arne Domnérus. Two CDs at the right speed, in a digipak with a 12-page booklet.
Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Sonny Stitt
SEK 150.00
The complete Stockholm concerts of 1960. Miles Davis with John Coltrane and Sonny Stitt at the Concert Hall, in sound that puts you in the hall. Twenty-three tracks, including a Coltrane interview.
The Thelonious Monk Quartet
Monk's quartet live at the Concert House in Stockholm on 16 May 1961, from his European tours. Charlie Rouse on tenor, John Ore on bass and Frankie Dunlop on drums, recorded by Swedish Radio.
Art Farmer Quartet, Jim Hall
SEK 50.00
Art Farmer and Jim Hall in Stockholm in April 1964. The complete Atlantic session, plus five tracks that had never been released. Cool, conversational playing, with Swedish folk melodies slipped into the set list.
Bengt Ernryd Sextett
Recorded live at Tellus Biocafé in Stockholm: Ernryd's sextet playing flugelhorn-led modern jazz in a warm, close room. Digipack with an eight-page booklet.
Anders Bergcrantz
Trumpeter Anders Bergcrantz leads a direct, modern session with a Nordic edge, unforced swing and plenty of room for every soloist to speak.
Bengt Berger, Bitter Funeral Beer Band
Bengt Berger's large, percussion-led band at Rainbow Studio in Oslo in 1986. Ethiopian and Balinese colour folded into modern jazz, with vocals, guitars and a wall of drums. Reissued with the original gatefold sleeve.
Bosse Broberg & Red Mitchell
Trumpeter Bosse Broberg and bassist Red Mitchell in a melodic, unhurried session: swing with a singing tone, where the tune always stays in sight.
Håkan Broström
Saxophonist Håkan Broström's quartet with Bobo Stenson on piano: nine of his own compositions, cut over two days in February 1994. Spacious, lyrical modern jazz.
Pernille Bévort
Danish saxophonist Pernille Bévort's sextet date, recorded in Sweden in 2000: neo-bop lines over the warm growl of Kjeld Lauritsen's Hammond organ.
Cabazz
Cabazz's first album: Swedish jazz-rock from Norrland, with Jonas Knutsson's saxes over a driving rhythm section. Melodic, dense and unmistakably Nordic, with funk in the engine room.
The band's reunion album after fifteen years apart, named for Sweden's great national park, and playing with the same melodic jazz-rock pulse as ever.
Cabazz in the studio in Uppsala in 1993: eleven short, sharp pieces of jazz-rock, with tenor sax from Per Texas Johansson.
Fredrik Carlquist
Tenor saxophonist Fredrik Carlquist's quartet date at Swedish Radio in 1998, with Anders Bergcrantz on trumpet: contemporary hard bop with a singing, unhurried tone.
Claes Crona Trio
The Claes Crona Trio's Christmas album: standards played straight, with Jan Allan's trumpet on three tracks. Recorded in Stockholm in 2000.
Arne Domnérus, Bernt Rosengren
Two Swedish saxophonists face to face: Arne Domnérus on alto and clarinet, Bernt Rosengren on tenor and flute, with Jan Lundgren's piano behind. Standards, cut at Swedish Radio in 1999.
Kenny Dorham
Trumpeter Kenny Dorham in Sweden in 1964: a hard bop set with Sahib Shihab and Lars Sjösten, issued by Dragon in 2019.
Berndt Egerbladh And His Quartet
Egerbladh's piano quartet album from 1967, long hidden on a small label, now reissued with three previously unissued bonus tracks and the original notes. Digipack with a clear tray and an eight-page booklet.
The Berndt Egerbladh Trio: modern piano jazz with a dry, offbeat sense of humour, reissued by Dragon in 2016.
Frank Erik
Thirty-two years of Frank Erik's accordion: jazz, tango and dance-floor favourites recorded between 1936 and 1968.
Globestars
Globestars take jazz to the dance floor: a swinging, world-leaning set from 2012, made for open space.
Lars Gullin
Volume 10 of Dragon's Lars Gullin series: sideman dates from 1951 to 1954, the baritone voice that defined Swedish cool jazz at its most relaxed.
Peter Gullin Trio
Baritone saxophonist Peter Gullin's trio: carrying his father's instrument forward with music of its own.
Lars Gullin, Chet Baker
Volume 1 of the Gullin series: the 1955–56 dates with Chet Baker, from Stockholm and Stuttgart, two cool-toned voices with a shared love of space.
Volume 8 of the Gullin series: 1953 to 1955, the years when the baritone sound was new and nobody else had it.
Volume 6 of the Gullin series: the early sideman years, 1949 to 1952, when Gullin was playing other people's dates and forming his own sound.
Volume 4 of the Gullin series: Stockholm sessions from 1959 and 1960, arranged by Gullin, with Putte Wickman's clarinet alongside the baritone.
Volume 3 of the Gullin series: the ballad side of 1953 to 1955, with the warm, vibrato-light sound that made his name.
Bengt Hallberg
Pianist Bengt Hallberg at the Gyllene Cirkeln club in 1963, digitally remastered for this Dragon reissue. Intimate piano jazz from Stockholm's club years.
Bengt Hallberg and Lars Gullin in an all-star session from 1953–54: piano and baritone trading lines in the cool jazz idiom both men helped shape.
Stan "Åke" Hasselgard
Clarinetist Stan Åke Hasselgård with Bob Laine and Gösta Törner in Stockholm in 1947: swing-era jazz recorded while the war was barely over.
Earl Hines, Nils-Bertil Dahlander
Earl Hines, one of the great piano innovators, playing live in Malmö with drummer Nils-Bertil Dahlander: swing, blues and boogie at an evening's pace.
Joe Harris, Åke Persson, Benny Bailey
Drummer Joe Harris with Åke Persson's trombone and Benny Bailey's trumpet: a Quincy Jones programme played by three musicians who knew it from the inside.
Åke Johansson
Pianist Åke Johansson's quartet at SAMI in 1997: thirteen tracks with a bop backbone and a light Nordic touch.
Nils Lindberg, Lars Gullin, Benny Bailey, Bjarne Nerem
Nils Lindberg's Symphony No 1 alongside Jazz From Studio A: big-band writing recorded at Swedish Radio in 1961 and 1963, released here in previously unreleased sound.
Nils Lindberg
Two Lindberg albums on one disc: the 1960 small-group Sax Appeal and the 1962–63 twelve-piece Trisection, cool jazz with a Third Stream edge.
Lars Lystedt Sextet
Lars Lystedt's sextet, recorded in Stockholm in 1963 and 1964 and reissued from the original mono. Hard bop and modal playing under a northern midnight sun.
Red Mitchell
Red Mitchell's 1974 album, reissued: a septet date with Bosse Broberg, Nils Sandström and Göran Strandberg, with Mitchell on bass, piano and, twice, his voice.
Position Alpha
Position Alpha live at Unga Atalante in Gothenburg in 1993. Four reeds, drums and percussion with no bass and no piano, avant-garde with the melodies still inside it.
Lars Sjösten
Lars Sjösten's piano jazz with Swedish titles and Swedish voices: sessions from 1970 and 1972 with Putte Wickman, Bjarne Nerem and Sture Nordin.
Ewan Svensson Trio
Ewan Svensson's trio: guitar-led, quietly dynamic modern jazz, released by Dragon in 2010.
Ewan Svensson
Ewan Svensson's album from 1990: modern jazz guitar with a Swedish, lyrical sense of melody.
Ewan Svensson Trio, Linda Pettersson Bratt, Antoine Hervé
Ewan Svensson's songs, with lyrics by Dave Castle, Linda Pettersson Bratt and Antoine Hervé alongside the trio, on a 2010 release.
Swedish Jazz All Stars
Swedish musicians in Paris in 1949. A rare document of Swedish jazz abroad at the end of the war years, preserved and reissued by Dragon.
Jan Allan, Bengt Hallberg & Georg Riedel
Jan Allan's trumpet with Bengt Hallberg's piano and Georg Riedel's bass: three veterans playing standards and originals with nothing spare.
Two Generations
Ewan Svensson's guitar and Hannah Svensson's voice, standards and originals cut in Falkenberg in 2012, in a digipack.
Leif Wennerström
Drummer Leif Wennerström's 1995 album, recorded at SAMI, a front line of trumpet, trombone and French horn with Bernt Rosengren's tenor in the middle of it.
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