Swinging in Paradise

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Release Date: 25th Mar 2022
Catalogue No: 1014350
Label: Storyville
Length: 69 minutes

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Romberg, S: Lover, Come Back to Me (from The New Moon)

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Kern: All the things you are (from Very Warm for May)

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Williams, H: Cold, Cold Heart

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Rodgers, R: State Fair: It Might As Well Be Spring

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Niels Jørgen Steen: Blue 16

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Neil Hefti: Lil Darling

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Porter, C: It's Alright With Me

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Hamilton, Arthur: Cry Me A River

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Pinetop Sparks: Every Day I Have the Blues

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Carmichael, H: The Nearness Of You

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Niels Jørgen Steen: The Rhythm

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Bernstein: Some Other Time (from On the Town)

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Jesse Stone: Shake Rattle And Roll

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Pianist and conductor Niels Jrgen Steen - a Danish jazz institution - is now immortalised on 'Swinging In Paradise', featuring vocalist Bobo Moreno and the ever so swinging Monday Night Big Band.

In the Danish jazz world, Niels Jrgen Steen is the personification of an institution. As pianist, bandleader and arranger he has worked with all the giants like Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins, Charlie Shavers and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis. He has been a stand-in for Count Basie on a tour of Italy and has fathered his own bands like Saxmaniacs and the A-Team, but his big baby these days is Monday Night Big Band, now over 20 years old and beautifully immortalized on this live album.

"If we play Singin' in the Rain", says Steen, "the audience already knows the tune, so we can 'play with it and take the listener out of their comfort zone, but we always bring it home to the melody. Sure, the arrangements can be difficult, but the musicians love playing something good. It gives a special sense of fulfillment."

While the line-up has changed over the years, some have been in MNBB since the beginning. These include Roger Berg, Peter Marott, Vincent Nilsson and Jan Harbeck, all of whom smile as they reminisce about how this unique, continuously morphing entity of collegiality, competition, enthusiasm, stress and satisfaction was the catalyst for their careers. It's the magical, fat sound of a real big band, of a real Danish institution that swings its ass off. Brace yourself...

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