Bohuslän Big Band: Don't Fence Me In - review

(ACT)This is something of a curiosity, but a triumphant one. The Bohuslän ensemble is one of only two full-time big-bands working in Sweden, often featuring big-time guest composers, and currently run by elegantly nimble trombonist Nils Landgren with the UK's Colin Towns taking the arranger's role on this Cole Porter reappraisal. Landgren sings on most of the pieces, and his distinctive sound (somewhere between a pragmatic Nina Simone and the distracted cool of Chet Baker) imparts to these much...

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