Album facts and playmates

1. "All Blues": Piano and harmonica player Mats Öberg was early discovered by Frank Zappa and joined Zappa´s group
for concerts in USA and Europe. 2. "I Got It Bad": In the 60´s Brother Jack McDuff with his band visited Sweden. On the
guitar he had the young George Benson. This visit made impressions on us young jazz musicains and you can still hear
that in some of our music. Pierre Swärd is the Hammond player in Sweden who best can handle the organ bass with his
feet. 3. "Winds Over Tannisby": Jonny Johansson is a Swedish 9-string guitar player who moved to USA many decades
ago to be educated. Now he is a doctor of music living in the Bronx, N Y C. He has recorded with splendid American
musicains, e.g. George Garzone. On this tune we have distorted my alto flute sound a bit to make it similar to an electric
guitar. 4. "All Of Me": The young guitar player Andreas Öberg is one of the European stars playing in the gipsy style of jazz, created by the French guitarist Django Reinhart. 5. "All The Things You Are". This arrangement is a mixture of jazz and classical music. It´s a sort of conversation between a classical and a jazz flutist. The classical flutist is Jerker Halldén. 6. "Monk Delight": We really like the way bass player Slam Stewart used the bow and how he hummed to it. This tune is an effort to recapitulate some of that feeling. The bassist Lasse Ekström is on the right track. 7. "Sweet And Lovely". This tune is played as a duet by many musicains. This is a seldom heard version by two flute players: Urban Hansson and Staffan Hallgren. 8. "Take The A-Train": The drumming buddy, Uffe Flink, brushes on his practice pad to create a tap- toe like support in this tune. 9. "Body And Soul": One of Sweden´s top reed players, Jonas Kullhammar, is here the ´annoyed neighbour´ coming in to express his discontent. For this purpose he uses his bass saxophone. 10. "Flute Fascination": We really like the sound of the boat engine. Makes us think about Buddy Rich.

The album was recorded in Stockholm, Falun and Borlänge, Sweden Aug 2006-March 2007 by Lennart Ström, Roberth
Ekholm, Rodrigo Sauvalle and Olle Hansson. Mixed and mastered by Jon Allan in OAL studios in Sollentuna, Sweden April 2007.