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Friday, November 28, 2008

Jazz photography: The Great Jazz Party

Roger Pontare with Big Band Explosion at Great Jazz Party at Uppsala Konsert & Kongress. Copyright: Henrik Eriksson. The photo may not be published elsewhere without written permission.

Last Saturday I attended the concert The Great Jazz Party. The concert hall was almost sold out. It was a really good concert, how could it not be that way with some of Swedens best jazz musicians in the band. I'm especially thinking of Klas Lindquist, Klas Toresson, Karl Olandersson and Andreas Pettersson and of course the maestro himself: Ulf Johansson Werre.

Vivian Buzcek with Big Band Explosion at Great Jazz Party at Uppsala Konsert & Kongress. Copyright: Henrik Eriksson. The photo may not be published elsewhere without written permission.

Two vocalist were featured in the concert: Roger Pontare and Vivian Buczek. Roger Pontare is known for his songs with a strong ethnic influence from northern Sweden (which you might have guessed by his clothes in the picture above) but he has also recorded an album with Frank Sinatra songs.

Vivian Buczek comes from the other end of Sweden, from the town Malmö, in the very south of Sweden. I've heard her before when she sang with Claes Crona Trio at Katalin last year.

Both singers sang excellent.

Ulf Johansson Werre (trombone, piano, composer, band leader) with Big Band Explosion at Great Jazz Party at Uppsala Konsert & Kongress. Copyright: Henrik Eriksson. The photo may not be published elsewhere without written permission.

At the concert they played a song that I heard a couple of times but never known what it's called, now I got it: Filthy McNasty written by Horace Silver. (Hear a clip of Filthy McNasty at Youtube).

If you want to see more of my photos from the jazz concert, take a look here: The Great Jazz Party at Uppsala Konsert & Kongress 2008.

The photos are taken by me and may not be published elsewhere without my permission. Contact me if you want to license them.

What do you think of Great Jazz Party? Please comment.

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