The melancholic sounds and fluid rhythms of Swedish folk music lend themselves naturally to jazz interpretation. A discriminating audience of music lovers will be pleased to know that Scandinavian jazz is alive and well. Anna-Frida's style crosses somewhere between Peggy Lee's cool presence and Astrud Gilberto's warm tone. A flame of passionate jazz under a sheet of Nordic ice.
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"At the heart of Nordic Jazz is a penchant for the simple and sublime folk melodies of Sweden. ....The interplay between the trio cushions the wonderful phrasing by Anna-Frida and propels a quiet intensity seldom heard since the Bill Evans Trio courted Monica Zetterlund in 1966."