OPEN DOOR, by Johan Berke Upstairs Five

OPEN DOOR

by Johan Berke Upstairs Five

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1.	Pushover 10:15	info	buy track
2.	Short, But Sweet no 20 02:24	info	buy track
3.	Two In One 10:45	info	buy track
4.	Flipside Extensions In Shades Of Green part 1 08:29	info	buy track
5.	Flipside Extension In Shades Of Green part 2 06:23	info	buy track
6.	Wisteria Floribunda 01:32	info	buy track
7.	The Big Krumbukto 10:36	info	buy track

about

Release notes as of December 2012

The sixth release from Johan Berke Upstairs Five is for the major part a live album recorded at Glenn Miller Café in Stockholm June 13 & 14 2012.

It contains mostly new compositions by Berke but also a couple of older live favorites: Two in One and The Big Krumbukto, which has been released earlier in studio versions.

The current line-up is premiered on this recording and contains powerhouse trombone-player Mats Äleklint for the first time in Upstairs Five. Saxophone-player Fredrik Nordström is back after a break but the rhythm-section is still consisting of the ever evolving tandem of Filip Augustson & Fredrik Rundqvist.

Stylistically it’s what you’ve come to expect from a Johan Berke-album;
Like the earlier cd’s: Upstairs Five (2004), The Cactus Suite (2006), double-cd Eastern Scene in Grey Minor (2008), the Phono Suecia-release: Scope - music by Fredrik Nordström and Johan Berke (PSCD181 / 2009) (which saw the jazz quintet augmented by a brass quintet) and Nordic Scenes in Chromatic Blue (2011), OPEN DOOR contains both long passages of composed ensemble work, free improvising within a larger framework of structure and some parts of very melodic playing containing more traditional jazz-shadings and structures but perhaps also, given the nature of a live-recording, a distinctive edge and energy in the delivery, not present to the same extent on the studio-efforts.

credits

released December 15, 2012

Compositions by Johan Berke

Fredrik Nordström - tenor and alto saxophone
Mats Äleklint - trombone
Johan Berke - electric guitar
Filip Augustson - bass
Fredrik Rundqvist - drums