For this recording we asked Lars Erstrand to choose three of his favourite musicians as soloists. He chose Roy Williams, trombone, Bob Barnard, trumpet and Danny Moss, tenor sax - each of them a world star on his instrument.
Bob Barnard, who went professional in 1949 at the age of 16, can look back on a long and successful career. Today he is by far the biggest name in Australian jazz and the country's internationally best-known and most sought after jazz musician. Like Roy Williams, he is second to none on his instrument and in the styles he commands.
Danny Moss too is one of Britain's best known jazz musicians and for many years has ranked as Europe's leading Swing tenor player. With his vigorous playing and unusually big sound, he has become the heir of the classic
American Swing tenor players. He lives half the year in Australia and the other half in Britain, in this way dividing his concert tours between both
hemispheres.
Roy Williams has long been one of Britain's best known and most successful jazz musicians. Today he is one of the internationally most sought after players in Europe, not least by American bands on tour. Like Bob Barnard, he is one of the very few stars today with a real feeling for both twenties,
Swing and Mainstream. Because of his sound and the ease with which he commands his instrument, many consider him perhaps today's top trombonist in any category.
In "The Lars Erstrand Sessions" we also hear two different quartet forces with a number of musicians from Sweden's swing jazz elite:
Jan Lundgren and Kjell Öhman, piano.
Leif "Gus" Dahlberg and Ronnie Gardiner, drums,
and Tommy Johnson and Arne Wilhelmsson, bass.
Tracklist:
1. Don't Take Your Love From Me
2. Afternoon In Paris
3. Christmas Song
4. One Morning in May
5. Jubilee
6. Small Fry
7. Fascinating Rhythm
8. Struggin' With Some Barbeque
9. Stuffy
10. The Talk of The Town
11. A Tisket A Tasket
12. Lester Leaps In
13. Easter Parade
