Lars Samuelson

The Lars Samuelson Orchestra: Het Sommar

by Jack Bowers
May 1, 2000

I was familiar with Lars Samuelson as the driving force behind Four Leaf Clover Records but wasn’t aware that he was also a big–band leader until this reissue from 1975–81 arrived unannounced in the mail a couple of weeks ago. It was a pleasure to learn about this previously unknown aspect of Lars’s musical persona, as the orchestras he presided over on the two sessions documented here accommodated a number of Sweden’s most talented sidemen who had no trouble underwriting ...