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The Imperial Band
    "Back in Town"

Panama  Tishomingo Blues  Change of Key Boogie  Mama Inez   When I Grow to Old to Dream  Big Lip Blues
Bugle Boy March  I Want a Little Girl   La Cucaracha  High Society   My Blue Heaven

Orange Kellin (cl) Christer Fellers (tp)
Jesse Lindgren (tb,voc) GöranSchultz(p,voc) ChristerWijkström(bjo)
Claes-Otto Sörman (b) Krister Ohlsson (dr)
Stampen- Stockholm 2000
YaYa Records YCD 011

THE IMPERIAL BAND
BACK IN TOWN

An enjoyable atmospheric sessin recorded directly, warts and all, Christmas 2000 at a Stockholm traditional jazz shrine.
It’s the sort of music very familiar to British pilgrims to annual festivals like Pakefield, Upton-on-Severn, Bude and Keswick.
This hastily-arranged date was by way of a tribute and homecoming celebration for clarinettist Organ Kjellin
(renamed Orange Kellin in the New World for the benefit of non-Swedes) who had taken the Ken Colyer path to New Orleans
in the mid-sixties, much to the dismay of followers of his Imperial Band, whose repertoire embraced music from the Delta,
backhome blues and the songs of Leadbelly and Leroy Carr.  Trumpeter  Christer Fellers, who took over leadership of the group
after the departure for America of  Kellin and pianist Lars Edegran, got a phone call from New Orleans a few days before
this recording and quickly set up the reunion.  With little or no rehearsal time, the group was launching into Basin Street Blues
and a jam-packed audience, whose chatter and clatter we hear, but not obtrusively, in the background, who obviously loved
everything they heard.
The group plays with a loose relaxed swing (rather reminiscent to me of Graeme Bell’s Australian group of old),
 notably in When I Grow To Old To Dream. Tempos are well-chosen and the varied and not-too-serious repertoire includes
items as diverse as Bugle Boy March and La Cucaracha. The whole band modulates impressively on Change Of Key Boogie
and pianist  Göran Schultz (Sweden’s answer to the Midlands’s late lamented Tommy Burton?) sings engagingly on
I want A Little Girl and Tishomingo Blues.  Trad fans should love it. John Chadwick, Jazz Journal

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Benny Waters
"Live at the Pawnshop"   
Out of Nowhere  Some of these Days  Summertime  Ziggin' and a'Zaggin'   Cherokee
Sophisticated Lady   Dark Eyes  I Can't Get Started  Indiana   Blues Amore
Benny Waters (as,ss,ts,cl,voc)
Björn Milder (p) Göran Stachewsky (g)
Göran Lind (b) Krister Ohlsson (dr)
Stampen- Stockholm 1976
Opus 3 CD 19901

Skivorna kan beställas från   krister.ohlsson@swingsters.se
The records can be ordered from  krister.ohlsson@swingsters.se
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