Visa från Utanmyra
Context
Traditional Swedish song whose melody carries two texts; the title refers to the hamlet of Utanmyra, on the island of Sollerön in Dalarna. Jan Johansson makes it the opener of Jazz på svenska (Megafon, 1964), a collection of folk songs arranged as a duo with bassist Georg Riedel, recorded in Stockholm between 1962 and 1964. With some 250,000 copies sold, the album became the best-selling Swedish jazz record.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to ECM and European jazz. Among the origins and influences of ECM and European jazz: Free jazz, Modal, French jazz, Polish jazz, Free improvisation and European free.