In keeping with our worldly appreciation of interpretations…
Also interesting is the comment below the music re Swedish folklore.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7KXq6RJ0PA
Been a fan for a long time… Thanks for posting.
Nice, thanx. New to me, like it.
Thanks, I was unfamiliar with him as well.
Gordon said: Also interesting is the comment below the music re Swedish folklore.
The granddaddy of reinterpreting swedish folk songs in jazz idiom is Jan Johannson. His sons maintain a legacy site here:
http://www.janjohansson.org/index.html
I can highly, highly recommend the Jazz pa Svenska, in particular. In fact, I be so bold as to say that you have to be dead if you don't like it and it doesn't affect you in some way.
Also, consider something like Polska of Despair I on Stenson's Serenity, also based on a folk tune and full of the Swedish melancholy, even as it gets going
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qSmU3Kv2o0
(Elk - you'll probably like the recorded sound of this piano better than the Yamamoto)