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  • BLÅSLÅTAR

    CE16

    Artist: JONAS KNUTSSON

    Label: Country & Eastern

    THIS ALBUM IS NOMINATED FOR A SWEDISH GRAMMY 2011!
    Windwise
    (Swedish folk music on solo saxophone)
    Playing these tunes on the saxophone entails certain challenges. As a saxophonist playing this music, you can end up feeling like a trespasser in
    the fiddle player’s territory. Especially while playing traditional songs from Orsa and Bingsjö. This is why it has been particularly exciting on this occasion, to instead create a recording centred on the saxophone’s perspective when it comes to tone, dynamics and key choice. However, as I have learned most of these songs from fiddle players, it is impossible to avoid the influ- ence of their techniques on my own interpretations.
    The musical phrases are most often created for the fiddle, which means there are very few places to breathe. Dynamically speaking, the saxophone is also a much louder instrument than the fiddle. This is why I have tried especially hard to find a way to play softly but with a pure tone and energy that balances well against the tone of the other instruments, including the fiddle and the nyckelharpa.
    I was a member of jazz pianist and composer Elise Einarsdotter’s ensemble for many years. In the late 1980’s, the group expanded from a quartet to a quintet with the addition of singer and fiddle player, Lena Willemark. She brought with her traditional music from Älvdalen, which was added to the group’s repertoire. It was then that I learned to play my first fiddle tunes on the saxophone and I was immediate...

  • Horn Please - Extra Takes

    CEX10

    Artist: Jonas Knutsson & Horn Please

    Label: Country & Eastern

    Released on october 16.

    Some extra material from the Horn Please sessions.

    Swedish folk- and horn music on six saxophones, bass and percussion.
    Led by saxophonist/composer/arranger Jonas Knutsson some of the most prominent younger swedish folk musicians are presented in music that goes from the traditional to the newly composed and from the strictly arranged to the improvised.

    Swedish folk music with a sound you never heard

  • Horn Please!

    CE08

    Artist: Jonas Knutsson & Horn Please

    Label: Country & Eastern

    Avaiable from october 16

    Swedish folk- and horn music on six saxophones, bass and percussion.

    Led by saxophonist/composer/arranger Jonas Knutsson some of the most prominent younger swedish folk musicians are presented in music that goes from the traditional to the newly composed and from the strictly arranged to the improvised.

    Swedish folk music with a sound you never heard