{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = To Sweden with Love | type = Album | artist = [[Art Farmer]] Quartet featuring [[Jim Hall (musician)|Jim Hall]] | cover = To Sweden with Love.jpg | alt = | released = 1964 | recorded = April 28 & 30, 1964<br><small>Stockholm, Sweden</small> | venue = | studio = | genre = [[Jazz]] | length = 32:41 | label = [[Atlantic Records|Atlantic]]<br><small>SD 1430</small> | producer = Anders Burman | chronology = [[Art Farmer]] | prev_title = [[Live at the Half-Note]] | prev_year = 1963 | next_title = [[The Many Faces of Art Farmer]] | next_year = 1964 | misc = {{Extra chronology | artist = [[Jim Hall (musician)|Jim Hall]] | type = Album | prev_title = [[Live at the Half-Note]] | prev_year = 1963 | title = To Sweden with Love | year = 1964 | next_title = [[Intermodulation (album)|Intermodulation]] | next_year = 1966 }} }} '''''To Sweden with Love''''' is an album of [[Swedish folk music]] by [[Art Farmer]]'s Quartet featuring guitarist [[Jim Hall (musician)|Jim Hall]] recorded in [[Stockholm]] in 1964 and originally released on the [[Atlantic Records|Atlantic]] label.<ref name="Art Farmer discography">[https://web.archive.org/web/20080113012231/http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/musician_discography.php?id=6637#anchor122 Art Farmer discography] accessed June 20, 2012</ref>
==Background and recording== Farmer's account was that his band was touring in Sweden not long after the Swedish pianist [[Jan Johansson (jazz musician)|Jan Johansson]] had had a commercially successful recording of Swedish folk songs; a record company official "comes to me and says, 'How about you guys do an album of Swedish folk songs?' I said, 'We don't know any Swedish folk songs.' [...] He said, 'Okay, I’ll get the music'".<ref name="Smith">"Art Farmer: NEA Jazz Master (1999)" (June 29–30, 1995) [http://www.smithsonianjazz.org/documents/oral_histories/Farmer_Art_Interview_Transcription.pdf Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Program NEA Jazz Master interview]</ref>{{rp|65}} The band flicked through the book of songs that the man bought for them and selected some to play at the recording session that had been arranged. One of them, Farmer said, was ""Sw. Folk Song", and so we thought that meant Swedish. [...] We're in the studio, and we had never seen the music before. The guy runs out and says, 'Hey, stop, stop!' I said, 'What's the matter?' He says, 'That's not Swedish, that's Swiss".<ref name="Smith" />{{rp|66}} The band abandoned that song and went on to record genuine Swedish ones.
==Reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 = [[Allmusic]] | rev1Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/> |rev2 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide]]'' | rev2Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name=RSJRG>{{Cite book |editor-last=Swenson |editor-first=J. | author-link = | year = 1985 | title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide |url=https://archive.org/details/rollingstonejazz00swen |url-access=registration | publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone | location = USA | isbn = 0-394-72643-X | pages = [https://archive.org/details/rollingstonejazz00swen/page/76 76] }}</ref> |rev3 = ''[[The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings]]'' |rev3score = {{Rating|3.5|4}}<ref name="Penguin">{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=[[The Penguin Guide to Jazz|The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings]] |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=[[Penguin Books|Penguin]] |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=470}}</ref> }} The [[Allmusic]] review states "The band's cool and restrained style suits the music perfectly, turning it into jazz without losing its essence".<ref name="Allmusic">Yanow, S. [http://www.allmusic.com/album/to-sweden-with-love-mw0000243790 Allmusic Review] accessed June 20, 2012</ref>
==Track listing== ''All compositions are traditional except as indicated'' # "Va Da Du? (Was It You?)" – 5:24 # "De Salde Sina Hemman (They Sold Their Homestead)" – 6:13 # "Den Motstravige Brudgummen (The Reluctant Groom)" – 5:52 # "Och Hor du Unga Dora (And Listen Young Dora)" – 5:51 # "Kristallen Den Fina (The Fine Crystal)" – 3:11 # "Visa Vid Midsommartid (Midsummer Song)" (Rune Lindstrøm, Hakan Norlen) – 6:16
==Personnel== *[[Art Farmer]] – [[flugelhorn]] *[[Jim Hall (musician)|Jim Hall]] – [[guitar]] *[[Steve Swallow]] – [[double bass|bass]] *[[Pete LaRoca]] – [[drum kit|drums]]
== References == {{reflist}} {{Art Farmer}} {{Authority control}}
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