Label: Ayler Records Catalog ID: aylCD-013 Squidco Product Code: 5660
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2005 Country: Sweden Packaging: Digipack Recorded in concert at "Glenn Miller Café. Stockholm, SwedenAugust 25 & 26, 2004
"One of the joys of recorded jazz is rediscovering a deserving artist that fell into the cracks of history. You've probably never heard of alto saxophonist Ulander, for example, unless you followed Swedish jazz in the 1960s, when he was actively recording with the likes of Berndt Egerbladh, a talented pianist who composed hip post-bop tunes, and Lars Lystedt, a valve trombonist and longtime fixture on the scene, or remember him as a member of radical pianist Per Henrik Wallin's mid-'70s free trio. [....] Live at the Glenn Miller Café is, in fact, Ulander's debut session as a leader, and displays his circuitous, lyrical improvising in five lengthy performances from 2004. In his younger days, Ulander exhibited a bit of Jackie McLean's biting tone and edgy urgency when playing more straightahead material, but now, exploring freer territory, he's neither extravagant nor overly expressionistic, engaging in open, conversational interplay with bassist Palle Danielsson and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love. Sometimes modal ("Tabula Raasa G.M.C."), elaborately embroidered ("Intrinsic Structure I"), or adding bent pitches and sustained wails ("Ionizacion - Variaciones E.V."), Ulander's knotty phrasing is dappled and distinctive. Better late than never."-Art Lange, Coda Magazine