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Esbjörn Svensson Trio
Esbjörn Svensson Trio (or e.s.t.) was a Swedish jazz piano trio formed in 1993 consisting of Esbjörn Svensson (piano), Dan Berglund (double bass), and Magnus Öström (drums). Its music had classical, rock, pop, and techno elements. It listed classical composer Béla Bartók and rock band Radiohead as influences. Its style involved conventional jazz and the use of electronic effects and multitrack recording. Biography The trio deliberately blurred genres, with Svensson's musical catholicism drawing on a wide variety of artist influences. e.s.t. was also renowned for its vibrant style in live performances, often playing in rock and roll oriented venues to young crowds. It achieved great commercial success and critical acclaim throughout Europe. Its 1999 release ''From Gagarin's Point of View'' started its international breakthrough, being the first e.s.t. album to be released outside of Scandinavia through the German label ACT. Svensson died in a scuba diving accident in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
301 (album)
''301'' is the last album recorded by Esbjörn Svensson Trio, released on 30 March 2012. The album is their second released posthumously, after '' Leucocyte'', as the pianist Esbjörn Svensson died in June 2008. It was recorded during the same sessions of the recording of ''Leucocyte'', whilst the Swedish trio were touring around Asia and Australia. The disc is named after Studios 301 Studios 301 is an Australian recording studio and is both the longest-running professional recording studio in the southern hemisphere and the largest studio complex in Australia. History The studio was founded in 1926 under the Columbia Gra ... in Sydney where the album was recorded. Before his death, Svensson was actually involved in the editing down of the sessions into what might have been a double album. In the end, surviving members Magnus Öström and Dan Berglund elected to delay the release of ''301''. Regular sound engineer Åke Linton was also a key presence in the recording, edit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winter In Venice
''Winter in Venice'' is a studio album by Swedish jazz band Esbjörn Svensson Trio (E.S.T.), released in 1997. It was awarded the Swedish Grammy in 1998 for Best Jazz Album. It was released by the record label ACT Music. Track listing #"Calling Home" #"Winter In Venice" #"At Saturday" #"Semblance Suite In Three Or Four Movements I" #"Semblance Suite In Three Or Four Movements II" #"Semblance Suite In Three Or Four Movements III" #"Semblance Suite In Three Or Four Movements IV" #"Don't Cuddle That Crazy Cat" #"Damned Back Blues" #"In The Fall Of Things" #"As The Crow Flies" #"Second Page" #"Herkules Jonssons Låt" Personnel * Esbjörn Svensson – piano * Dan Berglund – bass * Magnus Öström – drums * Johan Ekelund – producer External links E.S.T. Article on Jazz Police 22 June 2006 E.S.T. Article/interview on All About Jazz 29 November 2004: What Jazz Is, Not Was References {{Authority control 1997 albums Esbjörn Svensson Trio albums ACT Music albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, complex chords, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. Jazz has roots in European harmony and African rhythmic rituals. As jazz spread around the world, it drew on national, regional, and local musical cultures, which gave rise to different styles. New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass band marches, French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic improvisation. But jazz did not begin as a single musical tradition in New Orleans or elsewhere. In the 1930s, arranged dance-oriented swing big bands, Kansas City jazz (a hard-swinging, bluesy, improvisationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All About Jazz
''All About Jazz'' is a website established by Michael Ricci in 1995. A volunteer staff publishes news, album reviews, articles, videos, and listings of concerts and other events having to do with jazz. Ricci maintains a related site, ''Jazz Near You'', about local concerts and events. The Jazz Journalists Association voted ''All About Jazz'' Best Website Covering Jazz for thirteen consecutive years between 2003 and 2015, when the category was retired. In 2015, Ricci said the site received a peak of 1.3 million readers per month in 2007. Another source said that the site has over 500,000 readers around the world. Ricci was born in Philadelphia. He heard classical and jazz from his father's music collection. He played trumpet and went to his first jazz concert when he was eight. With a background in computer programming, he combined his interest in jazz and the internet by creating the ''All About Jazz'' website in 1995. The website publishes reviews, interviews, and articles pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolai Dunger
Nicolai Dunger (born 4 February 1968) is a Swedish singer and acoustic songwriter from Piteå in Sweden. He has released twelve EPs and albums, singing primarily in English, and collaborated notably with Will Oldham, the Esbjörn Svensson jazz trio and Ebbot Lundberg. He also records under the alias A Taste of Ra. He uses his full real name of Claus Wilhelm Nicolai Dunger for composing credits but this has caused confusion with some tracks being credited to two separate "composers" Claus Wilhelm and Nicolai Dunger. Biography A Swedish-born singer who falls under blues, folk, jazz, soul music. A former association football player, Nicolai was signed by the Telegram label of Warner records, releasing two albums that did not sell enough copies to enable him to give up his part-time job as a gardener. A meeting with Ebbot Lundberg of the Swedish band The Soundtrack of Our Lives led to two further albums, a tour with Emilíana Torrini and the use of one of his songs in an advertise ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pat Metheny
Patrick Bruce Metheny ( ; born August 12, 1954) is an American jazz guitarist and composer. He is the leader of the Pat Metheny Group and is also involved in duets, solo works, and other side projects. His style incorporates elements of progressive and contemporary jazz, latin jazz, and jazz fusion. Metheny has three gold albums and 20 Grammy Awards and is the only person to win Grammys in 10 categories. He is the younger brother of jazz flugelhornist Mike Metheny. Biography Early years and education Metheny was born in Lee's Summit, Missouri. His father Dave played trumpet, his mother Lois sang, and his maternal grandfather Delmar was a professional trumpeter. Metheny's first instrument was trumpet, which he was taught by his brother, Mike. His brother, father, and grandfather played trios together at home. His parents were fans of Glenn Miller and swing music. They took Metheny to concerts to hear Clark Terry and Doc Severinsen, but they had little respect for guitar. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Demon Music Group
Demon Music Group (DMG) is a record company owned by BBC Studios that is mainly concerned with back-catalogue rights and re-issuing recordings as compilations on physical media (CDs and vinyl) via supermarkets and specialist stores. History DMG started out as Demon Records, a British record label, founded in 1980 by former United Artists A&R executive Andrew Lauder and Jake Riviera. Riviera had previously started Stiff Records and, with Lauder, had also founded Radar Records in 1978 and F-Beat in 1979.Larkin, Colin (1998) ''The Virgin Encyclopedia of Indie & New Wave'', Virgin Books, , p.124 The label was originally planned to release one-off singles, with early releases from the Subterraneans (featuring ''NME'' journalist Nick Kent), the Spectres (formed by Glen Matlock), TV21, and Department S. Demon's first chart success came with Department S's "Is Vic There?" which reached No. 22 on the UK Singles Chart.Strong, Martin C. (2003) ''The Great Indie Discography'', Canongat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leucocyte (album)
''Leucocyte'' is a posthumous jazz album that Esbjörn Svensson Trio released on 30 September 2008 after pianist Esbjörn Svensson had died in June 2008. Track listing # Decade # Premonition I: Earth # Premonition II: Contorted # Jazz # Still # Ajar # Leucocyte I: Ab Initio # Leucocyte II: Ad Interim # Leucocyte III: Ad Mortem # Leucocyte IV: Ad Infinitum Reception Allmusic found that "more than any other recording issued by this excellent band, Leucocyte captures the art of music making at the moment of conception."Jurek, Thom "Review" Allmusic. (accessed 7 January 2009) PopMatters ''PopMatters'' is an international online magazine of cultural criticism that covers aspects of popular culture. ''PopMatters'' publishes reviews, interviews, and essays on cultural products and expressions in areas such as music, television, fi ... said that the album "is refreshing if not always easy or fun listening. E.S.T. could have continued making contemplative or gospel-tinged acoustic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuesday Wonderland
''Tuesday Wonderland'' is a 2006 jazz album by Esbjörn Svensson Trio (E.S.T.). Track list # Fading Maid Preludium 4:10 # Tuesday Wonderland 6:30 # The Goldhearted Miner 4:51 # Brewery Of Beggars 8:22 # Beggar's Blanket 2:53 # Dolores In A Shoestand 8:52 # Where We Used To Live 4:25 # Eighthundred Streets By Feet 6:47 # Goldwrap 3:59 # Sipping On The Solid Ground 4:32 # Fading Maid Postludium 5:08 Personnel *Esbjörn Svensson Trio **Dan Berglund – double bass **Magnus Öström – drums **Esbjörn Svensson Bror Fredrik "Esbjörn" Svensson (16 April 1964 – 14 June 2008) was a Swedish jazz pianist and founder of the jazz group Esbjörn Svensson Trio, commonly known as e.s.t. Svensson became one of Europe's most successful jazz musicians at the tur ... – piano Recorded and mixed at Bohus Sound Recording Studios, Gothenburg, Sweden in March 2006. Mastered at Bohus Mastering. References 2006 albums Esbjörn Svensso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seven Days Of Falling
''Seven Days of Falling'' is a studio album by the Swedish group Esbjörn Svensson Trio that was recorded and released in 2003. The album had the unusual distinction charting on both the top jazz and popular music albums charts. Reception The recording was praised for its accessibility by ''The Times'', and was ''The Birmingham Post''s Jazz CD of the Week. It received the German Jazz and Swedish Grammy-award 2004. Track listing #"Ballad for the Unborn" — 5:32 #"Seven Days of Falling" — 6:26 #"Mingle in the Mincing-Machine" — 6:52 #"Evening in Atlantis" — 0:50 #"Did They Ever Tell Cousteau?" — 6:05 #"Believe, Beleft, Below" — 4:51 #"Elevation of Love" — 6:43 #"In My Garage" — 4:18 #"Why She Couldn't Come" — 6:30 #"O.D.R.I.P." — 14:26 The last track of the CD release – "O.D.R.I.P." – contains a hidden track. The tracks itself ends at 08:19 and after about several minutes of silence the hidden track commences, a vocal rendering of "Believe, Beleft, Below" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strange Place For Snow
''Strange Place for Snow'' is a studio album by the Swedish group Esbjörn Svensson Trio released in 2002. Background The album was recorded in December 2001 and released in Europe on March 1, 2002 by ACT Music. The international release was on June 4, 2002 by Sony BMG Sony BMG Music Entertainment was an American record company owned as a 50–50 joint venture between Sony Corporation of America and Bertelsmann. The venture's successor, the revived Sony Music, is wholly owned by Sony, following their buyout o .... Reception The recording was awarded the annual prize of the German Record Critics 2002 and the German Jazz Award. Track listing # "The Message" – 5:16 # "Serenade For The Renegade" – 4:30 # "Strange Place For Snow" – 6:44 # "Behind The Yashmak" – 10:30 # "Bound For The Beauty Of The South" – 5:10 # "Years Of Yearning" – 5:44 # "When God Created The Coffeebreak" – 6:38 # "Spunky Sprawl" – 6:29 # "Carcrash" – 18:01 The last track of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Good Morning Susie Soho
''Good Morning Susie Soho'' is a studio album by Swedish group Esbjörn Svensson Trio that was released in September 2000 by Sony BMG. The album peaked at No. 15 on the Swedish Sverigetopplistan album chart. All tracks were written by the trio except "The Face of Love", which was written by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, David Robbins, and Tim Robbins. Reception ''Good Morning Susie Soho'' received critical acclaim. Stuart Nicholson of ''JazzTimes'' described the album as "darkly lyrical ndfiercely contemporary". It was named "Album of the Year" for 2000 by ''Jazzwise'' magazine. Track listing #"Somewhere Else Before" – 5:35 #"Do the Jangle" – 5:58 #"Serenity" – 1:50 #"The Wraith" – 9:20 #"Last Letter from Lithuania" – 4:10 #"Good Morning Susie Soho" – 5:51 #"Providence" – 4:53 #"Pavane (Thoughts of a Septuagenarian)" – 3:43 #"Spam-Boo-Limbo" – 4:39 #"The Face of Love" – 6:51 #"Reminiscence of a Soul" – 11 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
