Botkyrka Big Band from Sweden 1978

 

This group appeared in the Fraykers Schoolhouse compilation, posted here earlier.

The track they took from this album is not Select Notes which is a vocal big band number, but instead part of What's That, written by Lennie Sjögren and it's a great composition indeed. As a result, I'll post the whole thing for your sampling pleasure just below.  I'm surprised there are no more credits for this gentleman.

The LP is divided between fusiony big band and more trad. vocal big band such as might have been written / played in the 1950s, oddly.  It starts, even more incongruously, with some Swedish folk music, such as maybe Berndt Egerbladh might have played on his records, remember him?  (Oddly enough one of the tracks is by him.) 

The singing is from Irene Sjogren. (Bio: Swedish physicist and jazz singer, born 10 May 1953 in Stockholm.)  Love it-- "physicist and jazz singer."

This is their only release.  Here's the masterpiece fusion track, which sounds almost like a funk symphony in 4 (short) movements:

Obviously the whole thing is well worth hearing, I love in the 3rd movement (the compiled part in Frayker) how there is that transition chord change passage with just wonderful piano riffing plus bass accompaniment.

There are a couple more tracks worth hearing, but too much of the silly jazz throwaway stuff. It's an odd mix to be sure.