A tribute to “Kind of Blue”

Since the mid-80s, Jon Rekdal has been a well-known Swedish jazz profile and composer based in both the USA and Sweden for decades. He likes to move in the borderland between music, poetry, film and art.

Felix Pellbäck belongs to the new generation of jazz pianists who will grace the jazz sky for decades to come.
This unique collaboration spans half a century of jazz wisdom!

Miles Davis is booked for a session in Columbia records legendary studio “the Church” on March 2nd in 1959, located on 30th Street Studio and Lexington Avenue in Manhattan.
He is looking for a new sound and is thinking about well known western scales as a tool to achieve just this.
It is in the middle of the night when he asks his piano player Bill Evans to come over to “the church” to get his opinion. Carefully they run through the schematic notes that Miles has sketched out on napkins from his rambunctious late night out the night before.
The album changed music forever.
The music genre that had become locked into complicated harmonic progressions during bebop suddenly opened up and once again turns jazz into the daring, vulnerable, naked, divine and freedom yearning expression that it once was.

The concert is the release of Two of a Kinds 1st album “Kind of Two” and will be recorded for future release.

Lineup:
Jon Rekdal - piano, trumpet, Felix Pellbäck - piano