Musick that Needed Work: N - Nils Landgren

 

As I've stated before when I reopened this can of worms --- 2015 --- at the time I opened a folder (always a dangerous act) I had labeled: "Musick that Needs Work". It was a Pandora's box of files that needed some special attention, meaning anything from missing tracks to cleaning up the sound to fixing the tags to getting the art work, whatever.

The Man with the Red Horn - Nils Landgren

Born in 1956, Nils Landgren began playing drums at the age of six, before finally discovering the trombone at age 13. Between 1972 & 1978 Nils studied classical trombone at the music college in Karlstad with David Maytan , as well as at the University in Arvika with Ingemar Roos.

After his graduation Nils moved to Stockholm to work as a professional trombone player.
He was soon touring with the most successful Swedish pop star of that time, Björn Skifs who got to #1 in the US pop charts with "Hooked on a Feeling". In 1981 Thad Jones invited the Nils to join his new big band project Ball of Fire as lead trombone.

During his career, Nils Landgren has been involved in many musical styles: jazz, rock, soul, hip-hop, Big Band, funk...by his own reckoning, hundreds of albums including such international stars as ABBA, The Crusaders, Eddie Harris, Bernard "Pretty" Purdie, Wyclef Jean, Herbie Hancock, Ray Parker Jr., & more

In 1992 Nils formed the Unit which in 1994 became The Funk Unit. Numerous albums came out of this Funk Unit & Nils created Funk for Life, teaming up with Doctors Without Borders, contributing one Euro of every unit sold. In 2007 Nils Landgran Funk Unit released their eighth funk album Licence to Funk teaming up with Ray Parker Jr.

Here's NLFU's second paring with Ray...

 

Nils Landgren Funk Unit with Ray Parker Jr. – Unbreakable, ACT9039-2, 2017.
decryption code in comments

Unbreakable
Just a Kiss Away
Get Down on the Funk
Friday Night
Stars in Your Eyes
Rockin' after Midnight
Soulchild
Old School
NLFU Funk
Bow Down

Enjoy,
N