[contextly_auto_sidebar id=”ROaU1XMB0FTvXF69Zv8xRM6k5unnmvCR”] Jan Lundgren, Flowers Of Sendai (Bee Jazz) Recorded six months before his acclaimed All By Myself, pianist Lundgren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 2013 trio album contains two unaccompanied pieces that differ from the solo album and from one another. Lundgren develops his \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Flowers Of Sendai\u00e2\u20ac\u009d into a series of dance-like chromatic passages seasoned with whimsy before he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6790","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-recommendations","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Flowers](\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Flowers-of-Sendai.jpg\")
<\/a>Recorded six months before his acclaimed All By Myself<\/a>, pianist Lundgren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 2013 trio album contains two unaccompanied pieces that differ from the solo album and from one another. Lundgren develops his \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Flowers Of Sendai\u00e2\u20ac\u009d into a series of dance-like chromatic passages seasoned with whimsy before he lets it down easy, still dancing. His version of Billy Strayhorn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Lush Life\u00e2\u20ac\u009d lives up to the title, with sumptuous harmonies including, as a distingu\u00c3\u00a9 trace of sophistication, an ever-so-slightly dissonant final chord. In the rest of the album Lundgren, his longtime bassist Mattias Svensson and new drummer Zoltan Cs\u00c3\u00b6rsz Jr. explore his own compositions and others by Svensson, Richard Galliano, Paolo Fresu and Georg Riedel. Svensson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s powerful solo on fellow bassist Riedel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Melancolia\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is a highlight. In the US, the French CD is extravagantly priced. The MP3 download is an affordable option. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"