| To Sweden with Love | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Art Farmer Quartet featuring Jim Hall |
| Cover: | To Sweden with Love.jpg |
| Released: | 1964 |
| Recorded: | April 28 & 30, 1964 Stockholm, Sweden |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Length: | 32:41 |
| Label: | Atlantic SD 1430 |
| 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 |
To Sweden with Love is an album of Swedish folk music by Art Farmer's Quartet featuring guitarist Jim Hall recorded in Stockholm in 1964 and originally released on the Atlantic label.[1]
Farmer's account was that his band was touring in Sweden not long after the Swedish pianist 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'".[2] 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". The band abandoned that song and went on to record genuine Swedish ones.
The Allmusic review states "The band's cool and restrained style suits the music perfectly, turning it into jazz without losing its essence".[3]
All compositions are traditional except as indicated