Lage Lund with Sullivan Fortner

Lage Lund with Sullivan Fortner, Matt Brewer & Tyshawn Sorey – Most Peculiar (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:43 minutes | 1,24 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Criss Cross Jazz

The back story for Lage Lund’s sixth Criss Cross recording dates to the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. Lund – a native of Skien, Norway who’d lived in the U.S. since 1995 – had just returned to his homeland with his wife and two daughters. With school on hiatus, the family had to improvise an at-home curriculum. “My wife and I made it up on the fly,” Lund recalls three years later. “One day the theme was learning about elephants, another day it was ‘Ancient Egypt’ – completely random.” In conjunction with these lessons, Lund established a daily ritual whereby he spent an hour or so writing a tune based on the theme du jour, another hour to 90 minutes recording it, and another two hours creating and editing a one-minute video – the better to fit within Instagram guidelines – from public domain GIFs. Over the course of five or six weeks, Lund created a playlist of 36 videos, which he uploaded to YouTube.

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