Filip Jers quartet. Not a new video but I revisited his channel the last smooth jazz thread. You can smear this quartet on a piece of bread, man. Listen to that guitar!
Filip is a great player and a great guy; we'e been fortunate to have him as a visitor at the last few SPAH conventions.
While his style is smooth, I wouldn't call this smooth jazz, which is a marketing appellation for a category of slick, commercialized mood music that hews much closer to pop than to the improvisational nature and emotional depth of jazz.
Filip is beautiful player! And I agree with Winslow this is not a smooth jazz. this is a good old jazz standart :) ---------- Konstantin Kolesnichenko(Ukraine) CDBaby Amazon ITunes Google Music my music on youtube
I agree - nice chromatic playing and a good jazz sound.
@Pistolcat: don't worry... American English is full of expressions and "brands" like Cool Jazz, Smooth Jazz, and Acid Jazz. I understood what you were saying.
Randy is proud of having made the first smooth jazz harmonica album (something like 10 years ago). There are one or two guys on Facebook posting what they're calling smooth jazz recordings, but they don't come close to Randy's professionalism. =========== Winslow
Filip has registered twice, but I think he now uses his full name. I just bought his smoking fresh record Filip Jers Quartet Plays Swedish Folk. A jazz take on Swedish folk music. Here's a teaser video (can't embed I'm on my phone) http://youtu.be/dmUTUNc9uGE ---------- Pistolkatt - Pistolkatts youtube
One of the many cool things about Filip is that he's delved into his own cultural tradition of Swedish music - polkas and polskas and so forth.
He's gone out and found the harmonica that exists within that tradition and also found music that can be adapted to harmonica from within the tradition.
His new CD is not his first foray into this territory. Two years ago he got together with Finnish harmonica player Jouko Kyhälä and made a CD of duets, "New Scandinavian Harmonica" (note the oblique reference to Brendan Power's "New Irish Harmonica").
Paradoxically, exploring your own culture anew can be not only creative, but courageous, considering that traditional music is not seen as cool or commercial.
(I've done similar things in reinterpreting Canadian trad music, some of which you can find on my website.) =========== Winslow
