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Only two founding members of String Swing are still in the band; guitar player Jacob Fischer is considered Europe’s finest jazz player - his list of credits is enormous and includes work with Svend Asmussen, Toots Thielemanns, Chris Potter and Monty Alexander. Jacob Fischer’s playing with String Swing is more influenced by Django Reinhardt’s playing, than you’ll hear him anywhere else. String Swing's founder is Søren Siegumfeldt who plays the rarely heard c-melody saxophone exclusively. Søren Siegumfeldt writes the band’s original songs and has produced all of String Swing’s records. His credits include working with pianists Horace Parlan and Chano Dominguez. The band’s elegant swing is completed by rhythm section king and queen - guitarist Regin Fuhlendorff and bassist Eva Skipper.
Awards
The first two album “Red Shoes” and “Blue Hat” (featuring accordionist Richard Galliano) received various music awards - including “Best Danish Jazz Album of 2004” at Danish Music Awards and ”Best Danish Jazz Album 2005” voted by readers and critics of the Danish magazine “Jazz Special”.
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Lenny Breau: 7-String Swing
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
In August 1982, Canadian jazz guitarist Lenny Breau was in Nashville to record, of all things, a country album. Or rather, a guitar album with Western Swing sensibilities. For the studio session, Breau played a seven-string guitar and a six-string electric guitar. He was backed by the legendary Buddy Emmons on pedal-steel guitar, Jim Ferguson on bass and Kenny Malone on drums. The seven-string guitar is unusual and adds a string to the more common six-string setup. The extra string ...
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