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Bopalong - Road Song (1997) |
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VRCD 005 |
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Trond Mathisen (altsax), Jon-Sverre Berg (piano), Dag Einar Aasen (bass), Jens-Ivar
Dagestad (drums), Knut Mikalsen (guitar)
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1. Summertime/Four on six
2. Road song
3. Misty
4. Besame mucho
5. Telstar
6. Moanin’
7. Voi-voi
8. Living doll/Sun down
9. When the saints go marchin’ in
10. Georgia on mymind
11. Flintstones theme
12. I remember you
13. Flamingo
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Bopalong is a Norwegian jazz quintet, first organized in 1995. The band played a.o
on The Guinness jazz Festival in Cork in 1997, Molde int Jazz Festival in 1998 and
Oslo Jazz Festival in 1999, plus on the Big Band festival at Sandvika in 1997,2002
and 2003. The band also played on the jazz cruise with Color Line, organized by
the Big Band festival in 2004. Bopalong played regularly Saturday afternoons at
the music café “Prammen” in Sandvika just outside Oslo from 1995. The ‘Road Song’
CD was recorded in Tønsberg (60 km south of Oslo) in 1997 , with Johnny Sareussen
as producer. Terje Rypdal plays guitar on four of the CD’s 13 tracks.
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Review VG september 1997, rating 4 of 6 |
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(Translated from norwegian by Villa Records)
”Knut Mikalsen from way back then and the early days of the Norwegian rock band
the Vanguards, has made this joyful celebration of music from the sixties together
with Terje Rypdal and a band of capable and relaxed musicians. This is a kind of
cool version of “Kåre and the Cavemen”, where Rypdal gives full throttle in songs
as “Telstar” and “Living Doll”. Delicious nostalgy, with Wes Montgomery, Erroll
Garner, Voi-voi composer Georg Elgaaen representing the same period in time, not
to mention Hannah-Barberas Flintstone ouverture. A record to uplift one’s mind.
-FW”
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