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Christmas With My Friends VI

Nils Landgren

Christmas With My Friends VI

Format: CD
Label: ACT music
UPC: 0614427987228
Catnr: ACT 98722
Release date: 02 November 2018
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Label
ACT music
UPC
0614427987228
Catalogue number
ACT 98722
Release date
02 November 2018
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About the album

Oh no, it‘s Christmas again!

Time is running so fast, what happened?

Two years have passed since last time and it feels like yesterday.

Well, I hope that you are prepared for more music from me and my friends. Music to relax to, music to have fun to or just music to enjoy while decorating the Christmas tree, preparing the traditional food or dressing up for the Christmas party.

It also works perfect while cleaning up the mess on Christmas day and for that matter you can listen to it on the plane, in the car, on the train or whatever transport you are using to get home in time for Christmas. In other words, the perfect companion, come rain, come snow or any kind of weather. Wherever you may be heading, we’ll be home for Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

Love

Nils & Christmas With My Friends

Artist(s)

Nils Landgren (trombone)

Tender-hearted yet tenacious, Nils Landgren is a world-class artist. His Funk Unit’s groove is irresistible, and The Man with the Red Horn himself has led the band through their highly successful run of CDs, and in rapturously received concerts everywhere from Stockholm to Beijing. 'Funk is my Religion' is the band’s eleventh album – the album title just says it all. Landgren and his Norsemen bring a passion, an intensity and a freshness to their craft which has remained undimmed since the start. For more than 25 years, jazz-funk has been the force driving Landgren. This veritable elixir of life produces the bubbling energy, groove and joy that can be heard and felt in every note of the music. The...
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Tender-hearted yet tenacious, Nils Landgren is a world-class artist. His Funk Unit’s groove is irresistible, and The Man with the Red Horn himself has led the band through their highly successful run of CDs, and in rapturously received concerts everywhere from Stockholm to Beijing. "Funk is my Religion" is the band’s eleventh album – the album title just says it all. Landgren and his Norsemen bring a passion, an intensity and a freshness to their craft which has remained undimmed since the start. For more than 25 years, jazz-funk has been the force driving Landgren. This veritable elixir of life produces the bubbling energy, groove and joy that can be heard and felt in every note of the music. The band’s deliciously easy and laid-back vibe gets straight through to audiences. With the crispness of their funk rhythms, blazing brass, cool vocals and persuasive melodies, a new chapter for the Nils Landgren Funk Unit is only just beginning.

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Johan Norberg (guitar)

Jonas Knutsson (saxophone)

Eva Kruse (double bass)

Sharon Dyall (vocals)

Ida Sand (piano)

Ida Sand was born in 1977 into a very musical family in Stockholm. Her family roots lie in Piteå, a town in the far north of Sweden. Ida’s father was a well-known opera singer who sang at the Stockholm Opera for 30 years, her mother is still an active church musician. Both parents were a strong inspiration for young Ida. She started playing the cello at age 8 but the instrument did not leave much of an impression. Instead, Ida spent more and more time at the piano, singing along while tinkling the keys for hours. She did not let her mum teach her, she wanted to learn for herself and so she did. At 16, Ida went to study at...
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Ida Sand was born in 1977 into a very musical family in Stockholm. Her family roots lie in Piteå, a town in the far north of Sweden. Ida’s father was a well-known opera singer who sang at the Stockholm Opera for 30 years, her mother is still an active church musician. Both parents were a strong inspiration for young Ida.

She started playing the cello at age 8 but the instrument did not leave much of an impression. Instead, Ida spent more and more time at the piano, singing along while tinkling the keys for hours. She did not let her mum teach her, she wanted to learn for herself and so she did. At 16, Ida went to study at the music gymnasium in Stockholm and two years later, she went on to the Academy of Music in Gothenburg, where she immersed herself in the city’s lively jazz scene.

As fascinating as jazz was to Ida, her musical influences remained Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway and Aretha Franklin. After graduating in 2000, she worked continually, spending her time doing nightclub gigs, playing piano bars and soul clubs. Always busy, always learning.

Since Ida started her career as a freelance singer and keyboard player, she has worked with the cream of the crop of the music scene in Sweden: Christian Waltz, Stephen Simmonds, Carola, Lisa Nilsson, Eric Gadd, Bo Kaspers, Jerry Williams, Uno Svenningsson, Jennifer Brown and Nils Landgren, to mention a few.

In spring 2007 Ida’s debut album Meet Me Around Midnight (ACT 9716-2) was released and critics and music lovers felt confident. “Ida Sand sings with power and she is the most soulful white female singer to come along in some time”, said JAZZ PODIUM.

Ida’s second album True Love (ACT 9481-2) was released in 2009. It takes on an even more personal sound than her previous work – one reason for this is that in the interim period Sand has become the mother of a baby girl. True Love is produced by her husband, the guitar player Ola Gustafsson. At the album’s core are five outstanding original compositions, framed by classics from a variety of genres – a very personal declaration of love to her family, the music, and the world

With her third album “The Gospel Truth” (ACT 9725-2), released in September 2011, Ida Sand fulfils a long harboured dream: to unite her three great musical influences – jazz, gospel and soul – with her own personal signature. The album was produced by Nils Landgren who is also involved as a musical guest as is guitarist Raul Midón, singer Rigmor Gustafsson, saxophonist Magnus Lindgren and guitarist and Ida Sand’s husband Ola Gustafsson


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01.
Christmas Is
03:00
(Peter Liljeqvist) Nils Landgren, Jeanette Köhn, Johan Norberg, Jonas Knutsson, Eva Kruse, Jessica Pilnäs, Sharon Dyall, Ida Sand
02.
Oh No, It?s Christmas Again
02:34
(Nils Landgren) Nils Landgren, Jeanette Köhn, Johan Norberg, Jonas Knutsson, Eva Kruse, Jessica Pilnäs, Sharon Dyall, Ida Sand
03.
Who Comes This Night
03:47
(Sally Stevens) Nils Landgren, Jeanette Köhn, Johan Norberg, Jonas Knutsson, Eva Kruse, Jessica Pilnäs, Sharon Dyall, Ida Sand
04.
Wie soll ich dich empfangen, BMV 248
02:02
(Johann Sebastian Bach) Nils Landgren, Jeanette Köhn, Johan Norberg, Jonas Knutsson, Eva Kruse, Jessica Pilnäs, Sharon Dyall, Ida Sand
05.
Little Drummer Boy
03:16
(Henry Onorati) Nils Landgren, Jeanette Köhn, Johan Norberg, Jonas Knutsson, Eva Kruse, Jessica Pilnäs, Sharon Dyall, Ida Sand
06.
Come One, Come All
04:01
(Jonas Knutsson) Nils Landgren, Jeanette Köhn, Johan Norberg, Jonas Knutsson, Eva Kruse, Jessica Pilnäs, Sharon Dyall, Ida Sand
07.
What Are You Doing New Year?s Eve?
03:31
(Frank Loesser) Nils Landgren, Jeanette Köhn, Johan Norberg, Jonas Knutsson, Eva Kruse, Jessica Pilnäs, Sharon Dyall, Ida Sand
08.
The Story Of Christmas
02:57
(Evelina Gard) Nils Landgren, Jeanette Köhn, Johan Norberg, Jonas Knutsson, Eva Kruse, Jessica Pilnäs, Sharon Dyall, Ida Sand
09.
I Have A Dream
02:58
(Benny Andersson) Nils Landgren, Jeanette Köhn, Johan Norberg, Jonas Knutsson, Eva Kruse, Jessica Pilnäs, Sharon Dyall, Ida Sand
10.
Merry Christmas Baby
03:00
(Lou Baxter) Nils Landgren, Jeanette Köhn, Johan Norberg, Jonas Knutsson, Eva Kruse, Jessica Pilnäs, Sharon Dyall, Ida Sand
11.
Christmas Lullaby
03:58
(John Rutter) Nils Landgren, Jeanette Köhn, Johan Norberg, Jonas Knutsson, Eva Kruse, Jessica Pilnäs, Sharon Dyall, Ida Sand
12.
When This Night Is Over
03:56
(Jessica Pilnäs) Nils Landgren, Jeanette Köhn, Johan Norberg, Jonas Knutsson, Eva Kruse, Jessica Pilnäs, Sharon Dyall, Ida Sand
13.
I?d Like You For Christmas
03:05
(Bobby Troup) Nils Landgren, Jeanette Köhn, Johan Norberg, Jonas Knutsson, Eva Kruse, Jessica Pilnäs, Sharon Dyall, Ida Sand
14.
Hymn No III
01:51
(Nils Landgren) Nils Landgren, Jeanette Köhn, Johan Norberg, Jonas Knutsson, Eva Kruse, Jessica Pilnäs, Sharon Dyall, Ida Sand
15.
Den signade dag
03:25
(Johan Olof Wallin) Nils Landgren, Jeanette Köhn, Johan Norberg, Jonas Knutsson, Eva Kruse, Jessica Pilnäs, Sharon Dyall, Ida Sand
16.
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
04:11
(Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy) Nils Landgren, Jeanette Köhn, Johan Norberg, Jonas Knutsson, Eva Kruse, Jessica Pilnäs, Sharon Dyall, Ida Sand
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