Jörgen Ingmann - Guitar in HI-FI und weitere LP's

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Guitar In Hi-Fi / Metronome MLP 15007 (1960)

The guitar is as indigenous to our native popular music as apple pie to an American dinner. Ever since nineteenth century folk melodies were strummed on primitive stringed boxes, long before the dawn of jazz and of Tin Pan Alley, the use of this instrument in at least three roles-as a solo voice, as an accompaniment for singers, and as a component of the rhythm section-has been of primary importance.

During the past two decades the manner in which the guitar has been employed has been considerably broadened by the use of electronic devices. Special steel guitar effects achieved on noveity instruments by Alvino Rey, Floyd Smith and others, and single-string jazz solo ideas as interpreted on amplified guitars by the late Charlie Christian and his successors, showed some of the new paths the plectrist could follow.

The invention of magnetic tape added yet another dimension. By recording at vorious speeds, dubbing one track on top of another and generally taking advantage of all the opportunities for trick techniques offorded by the combination of the electric guitar and the tape recorder, Les Paul and others were able to produce strikingly unusual tone colors and seemingly impossible technical executions.

Jørgen lngmann's advent on the American record scene is but one indication of the degree to which these fresh ideas have spread abroad. lngmann, still a little short of his thirtieth birthday, has been heard during most of the past decade with a combo under the direction of the noted Danish violinist Svend Asmussen. A native of Copenhagen, Denmark, lngmann also happens to be as handy a man with the plugs and volts as he is with sharps and flats; hence the present highly entertaining album.

lngmann uses the so-called multiple recording technique, adding extra parts to his solos by re-recording himself several times on the same tape - some of his performances have included as many as ten different parts, all played by lngmann. He has such an amazing knowledge of electronics and sound engineering that he has set up his own private studio in which all his special-effect recordings are made.

lngmann's popularity is not in the least hurt by the fact that he happens to have a mosculine, movie-star brand of good looks. At last reports he was touring the world in a group aboard a Swedish luxury liner and planning to return home to Scandinavia for some more of his unique recording sessions.

The twelve performances in this set are all guitar solos from start to finish; that monotony never sets in is a tribute both to Ingmann's musical taste and to his mechanical ingenuity.

Jörgen Ingmann

Metronome MLP 15 071

Pepe / High Noon / Pinetops Boogie Woogie / Siamese Children's March / My Isle Of Golden Dreams / Anna / Cherokee / Oh! / Twilight Time / Bonanza / Serenade Of The Mandolins / Amorada

Jörgen Ingmann

Metronome MLP 15 436

Swinging Good Old Christmas

1. Rudolph, the red-nosed Reindeer / Höjt fra träets grönne top / I saw Mama kissing Danta Claus
2. Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow / Santa Claus is coming to town
3. Kling, Glöckchen, Klingelingeling / O du fröhliche Weihnachtszeit
4. The Christmas song
5. Pa lofted sidder nissen med sin Julegröd / Nissernes Vagtparade
6. Mary's Boy Child / White Christmas

1. Sleigh ride
2.Winter Wonderland
3. Je ne crois plus au pere Noel / Komment Ihr Hirten / O Tannenbaum
4. Christmas Alphabet / If it doesn't snow on Christmas
5. Morgen kommt der Weihnachtsmann / Lasst uns froh und munter sein / Fröhliche Weihnacht
6. The little drummerboy / Jinglebells

xxx
Dietrich

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