Steen Vig

• DIGIPACK EDITION

This CD opens with a world-premiere. A jazz tune never recorded by its composer or, for all we know, by anyone else. I got the sheet-music and the title for Sidney Bechet’s “Blue Boat” from a guy up in Stockholm, who got it from a local clarinet player – explains Vig, who, even with the help of several experts, has not yet been able to trace the origin of the tune further back. Steen Vig was born in 1944 in Copenhagen and has previously worked and recorded with Ben Webster, Jay McShann, Al Casey, Sammy Price, George Kelly, Champion Jack Dupree, Claude Williams Doc Cheatham, Wild Bill Davison and Gene Connors.

PERSONNEL:

• Gene ‘Mighty Flea’ Conners - trombone
• Ole ‘Fessor’ Lindgreen - trombone
• Cornell Dupree - guitar
• Hugo Rasmussen - double bass
• Thorkild Møller - drums
• Søren Kristiansen - piano
• Steen Vig - saxophone

Recorded April 3rd, 1993

TRACKS:

• 01. Blue Boat
• 02. Memphis Blues
• 03. Soul Country
• 04. The Flea Is Jumping
• 05. Blue Turning Grey Over You
• 06. Taps Miller
• 07. We Sure Do Need Him Now
• 08. Tee
• 09. Kansas City Man Blues
• 10. Copenhagen Hip Hop
• 11. Foo Foo Blues
• 12. Hotel Blækregning