The Real Thing with Bohusl

The Real Thing with Bohusl: A Perfect Match

by Jack Bowers
July 1, 1999

If statesmen and politicians could work together as productively as these unassuming musicians from neighboring countries, what a wonderful world this could be. A Perfect Match (cleverly packaged by Real Records to resemble a match–book cover) blends superbly the talents of the Norwegian quartet The Real Thing with Sweden’s dynamic Bohuslän Big Band to produce a spine–tingling album of straight–ahead Jazz that thunders irrepressibly from start to finish. And to make absolutely sure of that, the chart–making duties were handed ...