We call it Jazz

Last month, Sweden lost one of it's most inspirational music critics, Lennart Persson. Actually a more accurate description of the man would be just "devoted music lover" rather than critic, since he always wrote about what he truly loved rather than giving any unearned attention to stuff he didn't personally believed in.

I will remember him for enlighten me of the sheer existence of so many soulful nuggets, and for telling their enchanted stories, exploring the roots to much modern music and showing where tribute are due. During the years he compiled many worthwhile compilations, whereof I have often returned to this selection of 1960's jazz classics from the legendary Impulse record label, made as a neatly packaged freebie for Swedish magazine Pop back in 1996.

Take part of this varied disc of scorchers from Mingus, Roach, Ayler and other heavy weight players as a 70 mb zipfile downloadable from http://sharebee.com/05c5c954 or listen at DivShare above.

As a christmas gift last year, a dear friend of mine gave me one of LP's final publications in book form, Sånger om sex, Gud och ond bråd död - a collection of in depth texts on 59 of his favourite tunes ever. A few of these are wellknown classics, while many others are not. Lennart treats them all with the burning passion and historical expertise that even if the reader would not consider herself a fan of a certain genre you just have to surrender and develop an interest.

Another friend of mine have since then put together a streamable playlist on Spotify including most songs that LP wrote about in this book for our enjoyment:

http://open.spotify.com/user/andylicious/playlist/3TorTqfOc8npoNz%20i1O1hu0