Some new videos with my jazz/swing/schlager band

[Jan Jonsson]

Hi,

Since December 2006, I've been a member of a band playing the jazzy swing/schlager music that was popular in Sweden in the '30s and '40s. Most of the songs we play were made popular by Swedish artist using translated lyrics of the original American songs.

Here are two songs performed at a country festival in August this year, "She's a Mean, Mean Woman" and "Southern Belle (from Nashville, Tennessee)". I'm playing my new S10 Desert Rose "Delta Blues" through a Fender Princeton Reverb amp.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrTEWiODhHo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN2zRDL7DPs

Hope you like it.

-- Jan

[John Ed Kelly]

Pretty good stuff - reminiscent of the early southwestern bands from the mid to late '30s.

By the way - your accordian players seems to have a choice of four keyboards? Or is it just decoration I'm looking at?

[Jan Jonsson]

Thanks John,

Regarding the accordion, this band has the luxury of having two different accordion players to choose from, and both of them play exclusively on vintage accordions (preferably Italian) from the 30's and 40's. The difference in sound of these compared to modern accordions is remarkably big. In addition, the old accordions are aesthetically and mechanically more attractive. For example, they have those redundant keyboards that you have observed. As far as I understand it, the three lower rows contains all the notes in the chromatic scale (with some duplicates) and the fourth row (the piano-type keyboard) can be used instead of the lower three rows.

-- Jan