Letter To Eje Thelin - Goteborg Jazz Orchestra - Vinyl LP Record (Arrives in 50 days)

With the release 'A Letter to Eje Thelin,' the Göteborg Jazz Orchestra (GJO) has recreated the brilliant Swedish trombonist Eje Thelin's (1938-1990) final suite, 'Raggruppamento,' as it was intended – with the trombone in focus. Nils Landgren is the present-day executor. Landgren, who is now one of Sweden's foremost trombonists, participated as a young musician in the trombone section during the Radiojazzgruppen's (RJG) premiere performance of the suite in 1989. He had even taken trombone lessons from Eje Thelin and fondly remembers Eje, who was present at the premiere but marked by illness and thus unable to play himself. Eje's part was played at the premiere by guitarist Göran Klinghagen. According to Eje's son, John Thelin, Nils Landgren is today the foremost interpreter of his father's music, and he can clearly hear Eje's influences in Nils's trombone playing. The title track, 'A Letter to Eje Thelin,' was written for GJO and Nisse, and with Eje in mind, by his friend Georg Riedel – likely Georg's final big band composition. The rest of the album consists entirely of Eje's 'Raggruppamento,' carefully adapted for GJO's instrumentation. According to his son John, it was composed for the Radiojazzgruppen as a kind of final statement of Eje's musical life.

Label: Prophone | Origin: Holland