There is much to enjoy. Just Bjorn Alke Quartet disc begins with a

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After twelve titles from "Jazz in Sweden" series is now published, carnival dream it is thus that digital album. Each has only existed as a vinyl LP and have been difficult to obtain. They alone can stream or download would be fine and dandy if only Spotify and Wimp could provide metadata, production data that is. We are the many, not the least liked jazz, who love all kinds of facts about the record productions. But it does not seem to be something that the people behind streaming services care about. Fortunately, there are production data at the Music Agency website.
The similarities are many. Both groups are distinctly audible (though Anders Karlen plays electric guitar with Birka and Göran Strandberg plays some electric piano on the plate with Bjorn Alkes Quartet) and has significantly prominent double bass players (Bjorn Alke and Bronislav Suchanek) who enjoys playing with a bow. Bjorn Alke also doubles with wonderful violin.
There is much to enjoy. Just Bjorn Alke Quartet disc begins with a "lament" dedicated the then Minister of Education Bertil Zachrisson gets me in a good mood. It is followed by a rustic hearty "Blues for Ann Katri" and then a nine-minute outing with flute and violin, and drum solo and hard bop of Coltrane-school hardly makes things worse. Neither the Quartet (which also consists of Gunnar Bergsten and Fredrik Norén) a little later throw in a brief ragtime.
Birka is a bit snirkligare in its expression, with drummer Rune Carlsson effective driver of Anders Karléns soft-sounding guitar and Nisse Sandström's more hard-boiled tenor sax. All tracks marked by a clear melody and a kind of kindness: jazz wearing a knitted cardigan.
In addition to the album with Björn Alkes Quartet and Birka includes Caprice given also albums with the Equinox, Entra Camaleon, Wail, Änglaspel, Mount Everest, Opposite carnival dream Corner, Soul Train, Tommy Koverhults Quintet, Fredrik Noren Band and Disguised God.
Editor carnival dream in chief and publisher: Fredric Karén