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Nils Landgren Funk Unit – Teamwork (2013) {ACT}

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Nils Landgren Funk Unit – Teamwork (2013) {ACT}

Nils Landgren Funk Unit – Teamwork (2013) {ACT}
EAC 1.0b3 | FLAC tracks level 8 | Cue+Log+M3U | Full Scans 300dpi | 422MB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 145MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Jazz-Funk

This might well be the best Funk Unit that Nils Landgren has had gathered around him since 2010: technically outstanding, this is a group of team players who combine well with a great groove connection. James Brown meets Parliament meets Crusaders meets Funk Unit: that's one way you could describe the musical concept on "Teamwork". It is pure party feeling, the notes whirl coolly through the ranks, superb horn sets alternate with ecstatic solos, dance beats, smooth vocals and strong melodies, but there is also time for elegance and heartfelt blues. "Teamwork" is all that and then some, played by a dream team of sweat-inducing funk workers with soul in their blood."I felt that Funk Unit had so much more to give," recalls team captain Landgren, whose funk formation still shows no signs of fatigue.

Nils Landgren Funk Unit - Funk Is My Religion (2021)

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Nils Landgren Funk Unit - Funk Is My Religion (2021)

Nils Landgren Funk Unit - Funk Is My Religion (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 475 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 174 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:10:45
Jazz-Funk | Label: ACT Music

Back in 1994 when Nils Landgren started up his Funk Unit, there were those who asked whether there was actually any need for Swedish funk. After seventeen years, ten albums and several hundreds of concerts, the question has basically answered itself: to find the most fired-up take on this music anywhere, a sound which is inextricably welded into soul, rhythm and blues and jazz, and in which all of the instruments – and the vocals too – have an irresistible rhythmic urgency about them, this is definitely the band to see and hear. And if one turns to the pioneers, godfathers and grandees of the funk world – Maceo Parker and Fred Wesley, the musical prime movers behind James Brown, Ray Parker Jr., or Joe Sample from the Crusaders – then there’s no need to look any further: each and every one of them has played with the Funk Unit.

Nils Landgren, Michael Wollny, Lars Danielsson & Wolfgang Haffner - 4 Wheel Drive II (2023)

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Nils Landgren, Michael Wollny, Lars Danielsson & Wolfgang Haffner - 4 Wheel Drive II (2023)

Nils Landgren, Michael Wollny, Lars Danielsson & Wolfgang Haffner - 4 Wheel Drive II (2023)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 274 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 120 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:49:19
Contemporary Jazz, Modern Creative, Vocal Jazz | Label: ACT Music

Four is a winner: that was the unanimous opinion of critics and audiences alike on the first album from German-Swedish supergroup 4 Wheel Drive. The eponymous debut disc from this band of bandleaders went straight to the top spot as best-selling jazz album in Germany for2019. And the media didn’t hold back with their praise either: “Four first-league jazz musicians with pure joy of playing and a love of good pop music”, said ZDF’s “heute-journal” about this spirited and enjoyable group, which combines trombonist/singer Nils Landgren, pianist Michael Wollny, bassist/cellist Lars Danielsson and drummer Wolfgang Haffner. AllAboutJazz, a leading American jazz website, asked whether this album might be worth adding to a listener’s collection, and answered the question succinctly:”4 sure”.

Nils Landgren - Christmas with My Friends VIII (2023)

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Nils Landgren - Christmas with My Friends VIII (2023)

Nils Landgren - Christmas with My Friends VIII (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 239 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 111 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:47:30
Vocal Jazz, Xmas | Label: ACT Music

Nils Landgren's "Christmas With My Friends" is a faithful companion at Christmas time and the repertoire is almost inexhaustible. The eighth edition also presents a varied selection of international, Swedish, traditional and modern Christmas songs as well as atmospheric secular popular songs in the familiar quiet and intimate mood.

Nils Landgren Funk Unit - Paint It Blue: A Tribute To Cannonball Adderley (1996)

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Nils Landgren Funk Unit - Paint It Blue: A Tribute To Cannonball Adderley (1996)

Nils Landgren Funk Unit - Paint It Blue: A Tribute To Cannonball Adderley (1996)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 396 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 145 MB | Covers - 22 MB
Genre: Jazz-Funk, Soul Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: ACT Music (ACT 9243-2)

One of trombonist Nils Landgren's early inspirations was Cannonball Adderley's group. Paint It Blue is dedicated to Adderley with Landgren performing five songs associated with the altoist plus seven originals that pay tribute to Cannonball's bands. Some of the music is in the soul-jazz vein while other tunes (particularly the originals) are more modern, even incorporating a little bit of rap in a couple places. Landgren is a fine trombonist (sometimes a little reminiscent of Wayne Henderson) and he manages to keep up with Michael and Randy Brecker, who in this situation are superior supportive soloists. Without merely copying the past, Landgren expands on the legacy of Adderley quite successfully.

Nils Landgren Funk Unit - Funk For Life (2010)

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Nils Landgren Funk Unit - Funk For Life (2010)

Nils Landgren Funk Unit - Funk For Life (2010)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 467 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 156 MB | Covers - 7 MB
Genre: Jazz-Funk | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: ACT Music (ACT 9500-2)

That music is close to the heart of Swedish world class trombonist Nils Landgren can be heard in every single note of his playing - whether with his Funk Unit, his duos with Esbjörn Svensson or his ballad albums.
His band Funk Unit soon get into to a rootsy, raw groove with kicking tracks such as "Funk For Life" and "Finish What You Started". Tightly honed funk nuggets have been lovingly crafted by this gifted bunch of scandinavian souleros, it's all here blistering trombone, deep in the pocket drumming, crisp and choice guitar melded together by floaty keyboards.
Nils voice sounds on it too and the vocal harmonies that weave in and out of his compositions really add a touch of class to this already funk enflamed flagship. Highlight for me is "Matutu" the dirty synth, reminiscent of funkadelic really steals the show and Nils treated trombone just adds its own special flava to this bangin' broth!

Nils Landgren Funk Unit - Funky ABBA (2004)

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Nils Landgren Funk Unit - Funky ABBA (2004)

Nils Landgren Funk Unit - Funky ABBA (2004)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 344 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 123 MB | Covers - 16 MB
Genre: Jazz-Funk, Neo-Soul, R&B | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: ACT Music (ACT 9430-2)

In the '70s and early '80s, ABBA was one of the groups that most rock critics loved to hate. How could ABBA's bubblegum Europop be so huge, critics wondered, at a time when challenging visionaries like Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello and Lou Reed were making records? But music doesn't always have to be challenging, daring or provocative - it can simply entertain as long as it's well done - and time has been much kinder to the Swedish outfit than those '70s critics. Long after ABBA's 1983 breakup, their recordings continue to sell - and in the '90s and 2000s, ABBA covers have come from some unlikely places (including metal, industrial rock, techno and darkwave). This intriguing 2004 release finds Swedish trombonist/producer Nils Landgren putting a funk/neo-soul/hip-hop spin on ABBA's songs, which works surprisingly well in an R&B-oriented environment…

Nils Landgren - 3 Generations (2022)

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Nils Landgren - 3 Generations (2022)

Nils Landgren - 3 Generations (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 695 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 320 Mb | Digital booklet | 02:14:17
Contemporary Jazz, Vocal Jazz | Label: ACT Music

Thirty tracks from three generations of musicians marking thirty years of ACT, with Nils Landgren as driving force. Not just a retrospective, but above all an insight into the present and future of the discovery label “in the Spirit of Jazz”.

Nils Landgren - Christmas With My Friends II (2008)

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Nils Landgren - Christmas With My Friends II (2008)

Nils Landgren - Christmas With My Friends II (2008)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 259 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 129 MB | Covers - 7 MB
Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Christmas | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: ACT Music (9476-2)

Friendship has often been the basis for great collaborations in music. It was also something very special for “Mr. Red Horn”, trombonist Nils Landgren, when two years ago he fulfilled a long-cherished wish by celebrating Christmas With My Friends (ACT 9454-2). The critics celebrated the album as "the year’s most beautiful Christmas CD", "a soulful heavenly journey", and it went Gold in both Sweden and Germany.
Five of the twelve friends who accompanied Nils Landgren two years ago are with him again on Christmas With My Friends II: the classic singer Jeanette Köhn, the versatile vocalist Sharon Dyall, jazz singer and pianist Ida Sand, and The Norrland Duo of Sweden’s most talented acoustic guitarist Johan Norberg and Jonas Knutsson, a saxophonist especially known for his lyrical style…

Nils Landgren - Nature Boy (2021)

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Nils Landgren - Nature Boy (2021)

Nils Landgren - Nature Boy (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 160 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 106 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:44:54
Jazz | Label: ACT Music

The Man with the Red Horn. Nils Landgren’s nickname is apt. It brings to mind the fiery, coruscating energy with which the charismatic, soulful trombonist leads his Funk Unit. And yet there are many other facets to this hugely popular Swedish musician. In the course of a 40-year career, he has taken on many roles, producing albums, directing festivals, leading big bands, teaching in universities…

Nils Landgren - Christmas With My Friends (2007) {ACT}

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Nils Landgren - Christmas With My Friends (2007) {ACT}

Nils Landgren - Christmas With My Friends (2007) {ACT}
EAC 0.99pb4 | FLAC tracks level 8 | Cue+Log+M3U | Full Scans 300dpi | 325MB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 175MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz

With the “Christmas With My Friends” concert recording a long-time dream come true for me.I have always wanted to perform these songs of joy, but in my own way and with good friends as company, being able to concentrate on the music without any boundaries. It is with great pride and happiness that I am presenting this Christmas concert to you. It is the Christmas I dreamed of as a kid and I kept on dreaming till I got the chance to fulfil it and now it ́s here, right in front of me and you. I am as happy as a kid on Christmas Eve when the gifts are handed out (yes, that ́s the way we do it in Sweden). The music on this recording is a choice of songs that I have come across during all the years of dreaming of making this project. ~ Nils Landgren

Nils Landgren - The Moon, The Stars And You (2011)

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Nils Landgren - The Moon, The Stars And You (2011)

Nils Landgren - The Moon, The Stars And You (2011)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 317 MB | Covers - 10 MB
Genre: Vocal Jazz, Cool Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: ACT Music (9505-2)

Jazz has always had a certain fascination for the moon. After love, it is one of the more common topics for jazz standards, and for Nils Landgren is no exception. For some time he has planned a ballad album as a sequel to his highly successful "Sentimental Journey", which according to the newspaper Die Welt "stole the hearts of the audience".
These songs include jazz standards, such as Henry Mancini’s "Moon River" or Herbie Hancock’s "Stars in Your Eyes", as well as folk and pop songs like Kris Kristofferson’s "Please Don’t Tell Me How The Story Ends" or "Moonshadow" by Cat Stevens, and he also includes South American song by Kurt Weill called "Holofotes" alongside his own compositions. As such, "The Moon, the Stars and You" has grown into a concept album with a whole spectrum of different moods - meditative, longing, occasionally funky yet continuously inspired and swinging.

Nils Landgren - Christmas with My Friends VII (2020)

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Nils Landgren - Christmas with My Friends VII (2020)

Nils Landgren - Christmas with My Friends VII (2020)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 233 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 109 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:47:15
Contemporary Jazz, Vocal Jazz | Label: ACT Music

Christmas 2020 will be unlike the Christmases of the past, because the Covid-19 crisis and social distancing have fundamentally changed the way we live. Maybe they will also make us yearn more for the true spirit and the joys of Christmas. As we reflect and contemplate on what is important to us, we know that we want to keep hold of our sense of friendship and community. We feel a strong imperative to reach out for whatever can bring joy to the world. And with that thought in mind, there can surely be very few people who can gift-wrap the Christmas season in music for us – and do so quite as naturally, effectively and magically – as Nils Landgren.

Nils Landgren & Jan Lundgren - Kristallen (2020)

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Nils Landgren & Jan Lundgren - Kristallen (2020)

Nils Landgren & Jan Lundgren - Kristallen (2020)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) - 209 MB | Cover | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 129 MB | 00:56:14
Jazz | Label: ACT Music

Duo - it's the most reduced way of making music together. At the same time it can open a whole musical world without borders. Two musicians acting as one and in a dialogue at the same time. Call and response - it's jazz in its purest form. Sometimes less is more… The sound world of “Kristallen” relishes the moment when the surfaces and edges of crystals shimmer and cast off unexpected colours. There is a certain stillness, and also room for the imagination to unfold. Magic with fragility. Nils Landgren and Jan Lundgren have a consistent vision of lyrical chamber jazz which flows gently and naturally. Rather than clamouring for our attention, this is music which reveals its true beauty the more attentively one listens.