Alvin Queen

• 3 PANEL DIGIPACK EDITION

On his new album, NIGHT TRAIN TO COPENHAGEN, Queen chose two young and extraordinary musicians – Sweden’s Calle Brickman on piano and the Danish bassist Tobias Dall. Both impressed the drummer with their developed, versatile voices, and are two shining examples of the strength found in a younger generation of jazz musicians on the present-day Copenhagen scene.

Most of the repertoire selected for the album is borrowed from two of Oscar Peterson’s most popular recordings, 1963’s Night Train and 1964’s We Get Requests – but in this case, the tunes are reimagined through modern arrangements. When listeners are treated to reinventions of classics like Rodgers & Hart’s Have You Met Miss Jones?, it's difficult to imagine a drummer ever swinging harder than Queen.

On Duke Ellington’s iconic ballad, I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good), Alvin offers stunning lyrical sensitivity, while on Goodbye JD, his fiery energy knows no bounds. Queen’s drumming is nothing less than brilliant in any context, and as both an accompanist and bandleader he elevates everything and everyone around him

PERSONNEL:

• Calle Brickman - piano
• Tobias Dall - acoustic bass
• Alvin Queen - drums

Recorded in Denmark, March 2021

TRACKS:

• 01. Have You Met Miss Jones?
• 02. Bags Groove
• 03. I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
• 04. Farewell Song
• 05. Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars (Corcovado)
• 06. The Days Of Wine And Roses
• 07. Goodbye JD
• 08. Tranquility In The Woods (I skovens dybe stille ro)
• 09. D & E
• 10. Georgia On My Mind
• 11. Night Train
• 12. C Jam Blues
• 13. People
• 14. Moten Swing
• 15. Some Other Time