Creole Love Call

The man with the red trombone is always on the lookout for new challenges. This is
what has made Nils Landgren one of the most creative, many-sided and also most
successful artists to be currently found in the European jazz scene. Since 1994 he
has been under contract to the ACT Label from Munich, releasing over this period 12
albums in his own name. Seven have received the golden German Jazz Award, with
two even going platinum. Meanwhile, his role as producer of Swedish singers Rigmor
Gustafsson and Viktoria Tolstoy has brought him two further Gold awards.

Born in Houston, Texas, Joe Sample grew up exposed to the usual Southern mix of jazz, blues and gospel. He is known above all as a founder member, pianist, keyboardist and composer of the legendary funk jazz band The Crusaders, with which he wrote musical history over the decades. So many of his songs became
worldwide hits, such as ‘Street Life’, sung by Randy Crawford in 1979. Many of these
can be rediscovered on ‘Creole Love Call’. Since the late Seventies, Joe Sample has
also followed a parallel career as solo pianist and accompanied stars such as Marvin
Gaye, Tina Turner, B.B. King, Eric Clapton and Joe Cocker on numerous albums and
tours.

Nils Landgren and Joe Sample have known each other for at least 20 years, from
when Nils accidentally found himself in the middle of a recording session of The
Crusaders in Los Angeles and then played together with Randy Crawford in Santa Barbara the following summer. Years later, after three of the original Crusaders got
Creole Love Callback together in 2003, Joe Sample invited Nils at the beginning of 2005 to join him on a major Japan tour - and thus ‘Creole Love Call’ was sealed with a simple handshake.

Get Out Of My Life Woman
(Sittin’ On The) Dock Of The Bay
Nightlife
Soul Shadows
The Brightest Smile In Town
Don’t Take Your Love To Hollywood
One Day I Fly Away
With You In Mind
I Can’t Get Enough Of Your Love
Love The One You’re With
Same Old Story

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