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Paint It Blue (vinyl)

Paint It Blue (vinyl)

Nils Landgren Funk Unit

Label: ACT music
Format: LP 12inch
Barcode: 0614427924315
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Catalog number: ACTLP 92431
Releasedate: 12-11-21
Double LP, 180g, Download Code
A TRIBUTE TO CANNONBALL ADDERLEY. What is Funk? Funk is Soul with the resources of Jazz: the fluid boundaries between religious service and a party. The record PAINT IT BLUE is dedicated to the man who for many still today embodies the central figure at the genre’s source: Julian Edwin "Cannonball" Adderley (1928 - 1975). Maybe he didn’t invent Funk. Together with his co-musicians in his 60s quintet, Cannonball’s alto sax style, his attitude, humor great musicality, and his love for his audience allowed him to become a synonym for FUNK.NILS LANDGREN, born in 1956, grew up between the music of his father, a Jazz cornet-player, and the music of his grandfather, a pastor on the island Gotland. He first heard Cannonball Adderley on Kind Of Blue