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Glerum Omnibus: One

by John Kelman
August 6, 2004

Stick around long enough, work your way into the public eye strongly enough, and you'll eventually spawn imitators in your wake. Sweden's Esbjorn Svensson Trio has been around for over ten years now and has rocketed to significant popularity in Europe, for a jazz trio, over the past five. Now Ernst Glerum, with his trio project Glerum Omnibus, looks to mine the same jazz-with-pop-sensibility--almost. Glerum Omnibus ends up, in the final analysis, being somewhat schizophrenic: an entertaining listen that never ...