The sixth release from Johan Berke Upstairs Five is for the major part a live album recorded at Glenn Miller Café in Stockholm June 13 & 14 2012. It contains mostly new compositions by Berke but also a couple of older live favorites: Two in One and The Big Krumbukto, which has been released earlier in studio versions. The current line-up is premiered on this recording and contains powerhouse trombone-player Mats Äleklint for the first time in Upstairs Five. Saxophone-player Fredrik Nordström is back after a break but the rhythm-section is still consisting of the ever evolving tandem of Filip Augustson & Fredrik Rundqvist. Stylistically it’s what you’ve come to expect from a Johan Berke-album; Like the earlier cd’s: Upstairs Five (2004), The Cactus Suite (2006), double-cd Eastern Scene in Grey Minor (2008), the Phono Suecia-release: Scope - music by Fredrik Nordström and Johan Berke (PSCD181 / 2009) (which saw the jazz quintet augmented by a brass quintet) and Nordic Scenes in Chromatic Blue (2011), OPEN DOOR contains both long passages of composed ensemble work, free improvising within a larger framework of structure and some parts of very melodic playing containing more traditional jazz-shadings and structures but perhaps also, given the nature of a live-recording, a distinctive edge and energy in the delivery, not present to the same extent on the studio-efforts. Fredrik Nordström - tenor and alto saxophone Mats Äleklint - trombone Johan Berke - electric guitar Filip Augustson - bass Fredrik Rundqvist - drums

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CONTENTS:
1	Pushover	10:16
2	Short, but Sweet no 20	2:24
3	Two in One	10:45
4	Flipside Extensions in Shades of Green Part 1	8:29
5	Flipside Extensions in Shades of Green Part 2	6:24
6	Wisteria Floribunda	1:32
7	The Big Krumbukto	10:37
		total time 50:26

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