Seven Songs from the 70s Erik Weissglas, Svante Henryson, Hans Backenroth, Joakim Ekberg

• 1 Summer Band Camp 07:10
• 2 First Moves 06:29
• 3 Theme for Maxine 07:51
• 4 Humpty Dumpty 03:40
• 5 Laurie 10:12
• 6 Barbara 08:50
• 7 Ana Maria 08:25
• Total Runtime 52:37

Info for Seven Songs from the 70s

70s jazz left us with some beautiful melodies and harmonies, but compared to previous decades they were few and far between. Jazz was busy with so many other things in the 70s. On this album four of Sweden’s top shelf players explore seven of these scarce 70s compositions by Chick Corea, Bill Evans, and other jazz greats. All four started their life-long jazz journey as kids in the 70s. This album’s instrumentation probably is a first-time-ever in jazz: guitar, double bass, drums, and a cello as soloist and main melodic carrier. The album was recorded and mixed in 2018 at Carpenter Road Studios in Piteå by Tomas Johannesson, and mastered at Nilento Studio by Lars Nilsson. It is released on the label Nilento Records.

Erik Weissglas, guitar
Svante Henryson, cello
Hans Backenroth, double bass
Joakim Ekberg, drums

Erik Weissglas
With over 35 years of experience in musical performance Erik has a very wide and deep pool of musical expression to draw from. He has performed everything from Punk to Classical music, on both stage and studio. Though his musical roots comes from Blues and Jazz, he has ventured far beyond the reservation and has been observed enjoying Rock, Country, Pop, Classical, and much more.

His stage performances has taken him all over the place, working in duo with single artists, regular bands, big bands, and large orchestras. He has been performing on everything from Radio, TV, theaters, large concert halls to clubs and small intimate venues. He has been seen on stage wearing everything from lederhosen to tuxedo. There is simply nothing he won’t do for the art!

Erik has also arranged and produced music for both live performance and studio production for both single artists and larger orchestras during over 25 years. Alongside with all of this he has also taught music and coached numerous young artists from their budding talent to full fledged performers. Erik is currently Senior Lecturer at the Department of Music & Media at Luleå University of Technology.

Erik is a passionate musician with an amazing technical capacity, and deep understanding of the mystery of music. As such he can harness and translate the emotional energy in music like few others in his field. He is a wizard of music.

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