Nils Landgren Funk Unit – Funky ABBA CD

Nils Landgren Funk Unit – Funky ABBA

Funky Abba is an album by Nils -Funk Unit- Landgren, released in 2005. Funky Abba includes a.o. the following tracks: “Empty Hearts”, “If You Go Away”, “I Will Wait For You”, “It's Been So Long” and more.

Nils Landgren isn’t a name only to be found among "the top rank of European jazz trombonists" (Der Spiegel). He is also one of the wide-ranging set of artists to be found on the European jazz scene today. "A musical omnivore" (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) and "a marvel of flexibility" (Jazzthetik), whose interests and output cover many bases: whether the man with the red trombone is performing one of his frenetic concerts to enthusiastic fans with his grooving Funk Unit, singing with "hypnotic charm" (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung), devoting himself, in collaboration with Esbjörn Svensson, to the reworking of Swedish folk songs, or celebrating kitschy chamber music or big band jazz – all reflect the many sides of the same person.

Now, exactly 30 years after ABBA’s international breakthrough at the Eurovision Song Contest, he has undertaken a highly personal tribute to one of the greatest pop bands ever, working together with his grooving band, which "drives young people into a frenzy and yet also is taken seriously by the snobbish jazz lovers" (Spiegel).

Tracklist:
1. Empty Hearts
2. Is It a Crime
3. If You Go Away
4. Makin Whoopee
5. Fire and Rain
6. It Never Entered My Mind
7. Fever
8. The Moon is a Harsch Mistress
9. I Will Wait For You
10. It's Been So Long
11. Black Coffee
12. The More I See 

Label: ACT
Released: 2005