Farmers Market

Finally this album is now released for all international listeners! Originally released 2011 in Sweden the album was a great success for Stockholm based group Steve. Steve consists of singer Karina Kampe, Flugelhorn and cornet player Anders Ellman, Pianist Petter Carlson, Bassist Ulf Hammarstrand and drummer Mats Jadin. The music originates from the golden jazz era of Be Bop but also incorporates new compositions by the bands members. Songs include Cloudburst, Farmer's Market and Night in Tunisia. Karina Kampe has written new lyrics to formerly instrumental Blue Daniel as well as providing the heart wrenchingly beautiful "I Can't See a Spring" dealing with the loss of a loved one. Steve performs all over Europe and now hope to expand over the Atlantic as well. Very well received performances include the Bb Club in Berlin as well as Stockholm- as well as Tallinn jazz festival. To listen more also check out the album Ella the Cat. Said about Farmers Market "This CD is a real surprise" STEVE – Farmers Market (Satin & Steel Music) Grade 5/5 ***** "JAZZ Swedish quintet Steve is here releasing their debut CD with music hereditary of the 1950's and 1960's jazz, a real surprise! The vocalist Karina Kampe performs Jon Hendrix tongue twister Cloudburst elegantly and with an enormous impact. I keep repeating Art Farmer's “Farmers Market”, fantastic! The album includes several original compositions by the band leader cornet player Anders Ellman and Kampe, as well as elements of vocalese which imply face-to-face and corky lyrics to the improvisations of the great masters. All is superbly backed by pianist Petter Carlson, bass player Ulf Hammarstrand and drummer Mats Jadin. Göran Engström Smålandstidningen" "The band Steve is an altogether new and pleasurable experience to me. Though certainly motivated and inspired by the 1950's and 60's Bebop/Hard bop music, Steve appear a well deserved tribute to Annie Ross. Karina Kampe is a competent jazz singer, composer and lyricist (to several not before worded compositions by for example Miles Davies, Wayne Shorter and Frank Rosolino). The live recording from Haninge jazz club is reduced in ambient sounds such as applauds, but still manages to produce a clear sense of presence and no tediousness from listening emerges. The selection is classic bebop standards as well as original tunes, well fitted for the context. ”Night in Tunisia” that starts it off immediately sets a pleasant tone and Karina Kampe is really convincing with her vocals. Finally a refined and straightforward Swedish jazz album! Directly to the point and highly entertaining without any folliness. Likewise the original tunes go right to the heart, such as Kampe's ”I Can't See a Spring”. Ulf Hammarstand's bass and Mats Jadin's drums lay a steady foundation for Petter Carlson's piano playing. Anders Ellman has by right listened to Clifford Brown and Karina Kampe is surely happy about her full-fledged co musicians. For me myself, I have a new favorite group – Steve!" Lasse Seger Orkesterjournalen Sweden Grade 4/5 **** **************************************** Steve Proved Superior in Täby Täby Park Hotel October 23 2011 by Nalle Nilson at Orkesterjournalen.com http://www.orkesterjournalen.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1705%3Akarina-kampe-och-steve-&catid=26&Itemid=100132 On this Sunday night a splendid room with very pleasant acoustics hosted a quintet with a peculiar name. The band leader of the group is trumpet player Anders Ellman, who preferably plays cornet or flugelhorn. Still a young man, he has started to gain maturity in big bands as well as more intimate groups, such as the one with the spouses Wennerström/Larsson (Ellman-Larsson Constellation). On this night he only uses the flugelhorn and treats it lovingly and with a distinctive warmth and technical knowledge of the highest class. The choice of tunes will be presented later, but tonight's numbers brought both the group and the soloists justice, where each and every one's high points were enhanced. Petter Carlson – the magician of the piano brought an alto horn out of his high hat and together with Anders executed the Mulligans' ”Bernie's Tune” in well tempered harmony. As a piano player Petter has a playful light touch, but still creates a full bodied and pithy accompaniment as well as solo playing. The alto horn, which is a mini tuba, is sometimes in other constellations switched to a french horn as happened when he visited here two weeks ago with Nisse Sandström & co. The bass player produces, from what my ear can pick up, correct and supportive bass lines and sometimes shares a bass solo or two that I don't find atonal, but if there is a reverb on his Gallien Kreuger it might enhance what might be needed. I want l o n g e r bass notes. The drum accompaniment is contemporarily perceptive and groovy and marks and solos show that behind the Gretch set sits a modern drummer. At last, the string of my jazz nerve is hit with full force. Karina Kampe is the name of a singer that gives my perception of female jazz vocalists a well awaited positive up swing. Being able to impeccably and with good voice sing great evergreens does not make a great jazz experience for me. I get as you might say, no sense of feeling. This woman though tells us that she is born in these parts, that she studied at the well renowned Berklee College of Music in Boston and that she sets upon herself to put lyrics to original tunes written by among others Miles Davis, Frank Rosolino and Wayne Shorter. Karina Kampe performs a thoroughly jazzy program with partly her own original lyrics to well known originals. She and the band execute most things on stage together and I would rather call it a group effort of five equal musicians than a quartet with vocals. Täby Park Hotel October 23 2011 STEVE Anders Ellman flh, Karina Kampe vo, Petter Carlson p, ah, Ulf Hammarstrand b, Mats Jadin dr. *********** Opening Jazz Leaves You Wanting More! Wednesday night was the opening night for jazz in Nynäshamn, JIN, at Café Radiokakan. It came about with the band Steve at one end and a nutritious soup at the other. It is safe to say that the combo left us wanting more. Steve, with local Anders Ellman on cornet and flugelhorn has a fantastic singer in Karina Kampe. Actually better than many of the so called established jazz singers. Add to that a proficiently tight accompaniment behind the soloists that last all the way. Karina Kampe, if the the others excuse, was tonight's absolute benefit. Sometimes distinct, where every syllable in the lyrics are impeccably perceived, sometimes when needed, smooth as a cat skin, and all the way in symbiosis with the band. A perception of the crystal clear voice of Ella Fitzgerald comes through at times. Steve is a genuine group effort, even if the duo Kampe- Ellman pulls the strings and writes the new material. All belong at the top of the jazz elite, but hasn't so far made the headlines. One can wonder what it will take to get noticed. It's sure to say that it doesn't come down to the music. For JIN the collaboration with the café will continue. Next runner up is harmonica player Filip Jers and his trio. Those that attended the jazz fest “under blodboken” last summer know how good it was then. On October 26th Jers and his trio will visit Radiokakan. Anders Löfgren. Nynäshamnsposten "