EGBA's Ulf Adåker + the Swedish Radio Jazz Group in Chordeography, 1986

Ulf Adaker was the trumpet player and one of the composers in the Swedish fusion group the Electronic Groove and Beat Academy, or EGBA.  I sure hope those who weren't familiar with them were suitably impressed with the high quality of their entire corpus, particularly, as one person mentioned, the first album.  (Like math, music is something to be made by youngsters...)

This album was somewhat jazzier in the big band direction than I was anticipating given the extraordinary fusion he was capable of generating, tokamak-like, in the context of the whole group.  Of course, being a horn player, that would completely make sense.  There are 4 long tracks that have been composed and despite the apparent dissonance on display in the musical notation above, I'm not hearing as much of the Stravinskyesque polytonality I was hankerin' for. Having said that, the title track:




Note the 'silly-swingin' dancin' eighties' style here we've heard so frequently before in these pages.

I'll throw in some more from Radiojazzgruppen that I have in inventory, that to me mostly recalls the Gil Evans / Miles Davis collaborations of the Miles Ahead period (obviously, not as good).