Chapter Seven
Thums Up
LabelCaprice RecordsGenreJazz & Improvisation
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CD version. The Jazz in Sweden award in 1988 was given to the Chapter Seven group. The founder of the group, Bengt Berger, born in 1942, is one of Sweden’s foremost drummers and percussionists. Since the end of the 1960s he has played in/founded a large number of jazz and cross over groups and constellations. He has played with musicians from a wide variety of musical styles.
Bengt Berger has studied the art of Tablas in India and he is a specialist in West Africa drumming.
1986 he formed Chapter Seven, a group with a singular setting influenced by West African music: Two drummers, two bass players, three saxophonists and, occasionally, trombone. All the members of the group are renowned jazz musicians and you can by right call it a super group. Anders Kjellberg plays drums together with Bengt Berger, Anders Jormin and Sergei Muchin play double bass, Tomas Gustafson, Roland Keijser and Lennart Åberg play soprano and tenor saxophones and Nils Landgren participates on trombone.
The group plays mostly its own compositions with a West African and Indian touch, tunes by Ornette Coleman and Jacques Offenbach are also included and provide a kind of framework for the improvisations.
Release notes
Jazz in Sweden 1988 Recorded at Rainbow Studio, Oslo, Norway 6-7 December 1987 and mixed 8-9 December 1987 [P] 1988, 2007 & [C] 1988 Caprice Records, Stockholm, Sweden Made in EU Jewel case with clear tray.
| 1 | The Opener/Closer | 0:13 | |
| 2 | From La Belle Helen | 2:42 | |
| 3 | Babar | 5:12 | |
| 4 | Thums Up | 9:10 | |
| 5 | 8 Limited | 5:05 | |
| 6 | Först 83' | 4:50 | |
| 7 | Kora Song | 4:50 | |
| 8 | Kopula De Tri | 6:19 | |
| 9 | Penye Gahu | 6:54 | |
| 10 | The Opener/Closer | 3:05 |
- Ulf Andersson
- Design
- Anders Jormin
- Double Bass
- Sergei Muchin
- Double Bass
- Anders Kjellberg
- Drums, Percussion
- Bengt Berger
- Drums, Percussion, Producer
- Michael Pietsch
- Photography By
- Ruud De Sera
- Producer
- Jan-Erik Kongshaug
- Recorded By, Mixed By
- Lennart Åberg
- Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone
- Roland Keijser
- Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone
- Thomas Gustafson
- Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Percussion
- Nils Landgren
- Trombone
