Album Notes

Gunhild Carling is a jazzmusician and multiinstrumentaslist originating from Gothenburg but at present she lives in Malmö. The main instrument is trombone but she happily picks up any instrument including trumpet, recorder, flute, oboem, saxophone and so on. The musical style of choice is swingmusic but when she picks up the harp och bagpipe(!) it will soon get really bluesy.

Her musical influences includes Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Bix Beiderbecke, Harpo Marx, Claude Debussy.

Gunhild (born 1975) was born into the jazzmusic and have been playing publically since 1982 with the band "Carling Family". The family band started out as a pure New Orleansband band playing at jazzclubs and festivals, but the reportoire has grown and now includes swing music and acrobatic acts.