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Artist: Sonny Simmons

Label: Jazzaway

Price: $16.95

Year: 2005
Format: CD

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Simmons has been in Norway in 2005 and recorded several sessions together with some of the most exciting and experienced young Norwegian jazz artists.

The Traveller is the first album in a trilogy by Sonny Simmons on Jazzaway Records. It also features piano player Anders Aarum, bassist Mats Eilertsen and drummer Ole Thomas Kolberg.

They are all performing superbly troughout this session composed and conducted by Vidar Johansen who also plays the flute parts.

Johansens compositions for string quartet + rythm section are modern, fresh and exciting, and does not have the sweet/mellow atmosphere usually assosiated with the mix of jazz and strings. The album features an elite classical string quartet from Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra/ Kringkastningsorkesteret.

The Traveller is the result of Sonnys desire to do something he had never done before, to be recorded with strings. This is also the firs time he is doing a record not playing his own original compositions (except for some old "standars" recorded in the past).

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Sonny Simmons (alto sax, English Horn); Anders Aarum (piano); Mats Eilertsen (double bass); Ole-Thomas Kolberg (drums)

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