# To Sweden with Love > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/To_Sweden_with_Love > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/To_Sweden_with_Love.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Sweden_with_Love > Source revision: 1349775690 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) 1964 studio album by Art Farmer Quartet featuring Jim Hall To Sweden with Love Studio album by Art Farmer Quartet featuring Jim Hall Released 1964 Recorded April 28 & 30, 1964 Stockholm, Sweden Genre Jazz Length 32:41 Label Atlantic SD 1430 Producer Anders Burman Art Farmer chronology Live at the Half-Note (1963) To Sweden with Love (1964) The Many Faces of Art Farmer (1964) Jim Hall chronology Live at the Half-Note (1963) To Sweden with Love (1964) Intermodulation (1966) ***To Sweden with Love*** is an album of [Swedish folk music](/source/Swedish_folk_music) by [Art Farmer](/source/Art_Farmer)'s Quartet featuring guitarist [Jim Hall](/source/Jim_Hall_(musician)) recorded in [Stockholm](/source/Stockholm) in 1964 and originally released on the [Atlantic](/source/Atlantic_Records) label.[1] ## Background and recording Farmer's account was that his band was touring in Sweden not long after the Swedish pianist [Jan Johansson](/source/Jan_Johansson_(jazz_musician)) 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'".[2]: 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".[2]: 66 The band abandoned that song and went on to record genuine Swedish ones. ## Reception Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating Allmusic [3] The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide [4] The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings [5] The [Allmusic](/source/Allmusic) review states "The band's cool and restrained style suits the music perfectly, turning it into jazz without losing its essence".[3] ## Track listing *All compositions are traditional except as indicated* 1. "Va Da Du? (Was It You?)" – 5:24 1. "De Salde Sina Hemman (They Sold Their Homestead)" – 6:13 1. "Den Motstravige Brudgummen (The Reluctant Groom)" – 5:52 1. "Och Hor du Unga Dora (And Listen Young Dora)" – 5:51 1. "Kristallen Den Fina (The Fine Crystal)" – 3:11 1. "Visa Vid Midsommartid (Midsummer Song)" (Rune Lindstrøm, Hakan Norlen) – 6:16 ## Personnel - [Art Farmer](/source/Art_Farmer) – [flugelhorn](/source/Flugelhorn) - [Jim Hall](/source/Jim_Hall_(musician)) – [guitar](/source/Guitar) - [Steve Swallow](/source/Steve_Swallow) – [bass](/source/Double_bass) - [Pete LaRoca](/source/Pete_LaRoca) – [drums](/source/Drum_kit) ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-Art_Farmer_discography_1-0)** [Art Farmer discography](https://web.archive.org/web/20080113012231/http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/musician_discography.php?id=6637#anchor122) accessed June 20, 2012 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Smith_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Smith_2-1) "Art Farmer: NEA Jazz Master (1999)" (June 29–30, 1995) [Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Program NEA Jazz Master interview](http://www.smithsonianjazz.org/documents/oral_histories/Farmer_Art_Interview_Transcription.pdf) 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Allmusic_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Allmusic_3-1) Yanow, S. [Allmusic Review](http://www.allmusic.com/album/to-sweden-with-love-mw0000243790) accessed June 20, 2012 1. **[^](#cite_ref-RSJRG_4-0)** Swenson, J., ed. (1985). [*The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide*](https://archive.org/details/rollingstonejazz00swen). USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp. [76](https://archive.org/details/rollingstonejazz00swen/page/76). [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-394-72643-X](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-394-72643-X). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-Penguin_5-0)** [Cook, Richard](/source/Richard_Cook_(journalist)); [Morton, Brian](/source/Brian_Morton_(Scottish_writer)) (2008). *[The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings](/source/The_Penguin_Guide_to_Jazz)* (9th ed.). [Penguin](/source/Penguin_Books). p. 470. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-141-03401-0](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-141-03401-0). v t e Art Farmer Studio albums When Farmer Met Gryce (1955) Art Farmer Quintet featuring Gigi Gryce (1955) The Art Farmer Septet (1956) Farmer's Market (1956) 2 Trumpets (1957) Three Trumpets (1957) Last Night When We Were Young (1958) Portrait of Art Farmer (1958) Modern Art (1958) Brass Shout (1959) The Aztec Suite (1959) Art (1961) Early Art (1962) Listen to Art Farmer and the Orchestra (1963) Interaction (1963) Perception (1964) To Sweden with Love (1964) The Many Faces of Art Farmer (1964) Sing Me Softly of the Blues (1965) New York Jazz Sextet: Group Therapy (1966) Baroque Sketches (1966) The Art Farmer Quintet Plays the Great Jazz Hits (1967) Homecoming (1971) Gentle Eyes (1972) Yesterday's Thoughts (1976) To Duke with Love (1976) On the Road (1976) The Summer Knows (1977) Crawl Space (1977) Something You Got (1977) Big Blues (1979) Yama (1979) Manhattan (1982) Mirage (1982) Warm Valley (1983) You Make Me Smile (1985) Something to Live For: The Music of Billy Strayhorn (1987) Azure (1987) Blame It on My Youth (1988) Ph.D. (1989) The Time and the Place (2007) Live albums Live at the Half-Note (1964) The Time and the Place: The Lost Concert (1966) Art Farmer Quintet at Boomers (1976) Central Avenue Reunion (1989) Related articles Discography The Jazztet --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [To Sweden with Love](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Sweden_with_Love) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Sweden_with_Love?action=history)). 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