{"id":7699,"date":"2016-08-01T09:22:05","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T16:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=7699"},"modified":"2016-08-01T09:22:05","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T16:22:05","slug":"to-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2016\/08\/to-sweden\/","title":{"rendered":"To Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Swedish-flag.jpg\" alt=\"Swedish flag\" width=\"200\" height=\"190\" \/>As I fly to Sweden this morning, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be humming \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ack V\u00c3\u00a4rmeland du sk\u00c3\u00b6na,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the patriotic folk song Swedes love so much. It is, in effect, the country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s unofficial national anthem. Here it is, sung by the great Swedish tenor Jussi Bj\u00c3\u00b6rling in 1959.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kXPPMYyJl-g\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When Stan Getz recorded the song in 1951 with pianist Bengt Hallberg and other Swedish musicians, it was retitled \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Dear Old Stockholm.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Decades later another tenor saxophonist, Scott Hamilton, recorded it with pianist Jan Lundgren, bassist Jesper Lundgaard and drummer Kristian Leth.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pSoxks9HbAQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Lundgren, the pianist you just heard, is the artistic director of the Ystad Sweden Jazz Festival. Pianist Bill Mays and I are headed to Europe to be a part of it. For details, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2016\/07\/ystad-beckons-again.html\" target=\"_blank\">go here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Following our performance, Bill and his wife Judy will spend a few days in Copenhagen. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll remain in Ystad and do some reporting on the festival. Please check in to <em>Rifftides<\/em> now and then for updates.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I fly to Sweden this morning, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be humming \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ack V\u00c3\u00a4rmeland du sk\u00c3\u00b6na,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the patriotic folk song Swedes love so much. It is, in effect, the country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s unofficial national anthem. Here it is, sung by the great Swedish tenor Jussi Bj\u00c3\u00b6rling in 1959. When Stan Getz recorded the song in 1951 with pianist Bengt [&hellip;]<\/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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7699","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7699","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=7699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}