Kustbandet

A medium-sized 12-piece music group from Sweden, Kustbandet has because the mid-1960’s been executing fresh renditions of 1920’s period choices, without resorting to mere recreations of earlier recordings. The band’s first name was the Southside Kneewarmers however they transformed their name to Kustbandet (this means the type of land that may be noticed from the ocean) if they had employment on a fishing boat; the newer name stuck. The sooner group got multireedist Kenneth Arnstrom as its primary soloist and was filled up with musicians who didn’t read music regardless of the complexity from the frameworks. In 1974 when Bent Persson (an excellent cornetist who has the capacity to sound remarkably near 1926 Louis Armstrong) became a member of up, the music group started to make use of scores more, specifically after Arnstrom still left the group in 1978. Nevertheless the group’s looseness continued to be and through the years it’s been among Sweden’s finest (& most regularly innovative) trad jazz rings, executing music in the design of the past due 1920’s big rings such as for example Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson, Luis Russell and McKinney’s Natural cotton Pickers. Kustbandet provides thus far documented for Kenneth (quite thoroughly since 1966 including a time with altoist Charlie Holmes) and Stomp Off (including a established featuring vocalist Carol Leigh).