Saturday, September 05, 2009

Scandanavian Jazz

This is a Swedish family performing Dixieland jazz 25 years-ago. Dig the nine-year-old girl on slide trombone.

h/t: erwigfilms

2 comments:

Keeper said...

Very cool.

And here they are just two years ago:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8uFf7pKomc

I have a video which includes a clip of a nine-year-old violinist doing a great jazzy/fiddly version of Sweet Georgia Brown (they have an audio clip up on their MySpace page if one searches for the Begin Family Trio). She'd be 12 now but I haven't seen her play for a couple years.

But while we're in Sweden and speaking of Sweet Georgia Brown, have a look at the peculiar rhythm instrument used by Olle Hemmingsson's Trio:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbN-jO11vKg

JP Mac said...

Oleg and the boys rocked.

As did their percussionist.

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