I was in Stockholm for the Nobel Prize ceremony (nah, I didn't win, again, but I had to write about some guys who did) when I went to the Jazz Club Fasching to hear George Russell conduct a Swedish big band playing his compositions.
Unfortunately, George got snowed in and couldn't make it over. But the band played his stuff anyway, and very well I might add, and the experience hooked me on saxophonist Lennart Aberg, the band's leader, and pianist Bobo Stenson, a couple big hitters in Swedish jazz. "Bobo Stenson/Lennart Aberg," a duo disk released in 2003, is a good way to get a dose of both. I also like Aberg and Stenson with Don Cherry on "Dona Nostra."
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