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Tonbruket: Dig It To The End
by Bruce Lindsay
For its eponymous debut (ACT, 2010) , this band was called Dan Berglund's Tonbruket. It was a new outfit, the first new venture by a member of e.s.t. after pianist Esbjörn Svensson's death in 2008, pretty much an unknown quantity. For Dig It To The End, bassist Berglund remains as an emphatic presence, but the band is simply Tonbruket. It's a clear indication that this is a democratic outfit, a band of equals, a group that can trade on its ...
Continue ReadingDan Berglund: Back from the Dark
by AAJ Staff
Bassist Dan Berglund became known as one-third of Swedish jazz superstar group e.s.t. (Esbjörn Svensson Trio), with CDs including From Gagarin's Point of View (ACT, 1999), Good Morning Susie Soho (ACT, 2000), Strange Place for Snow (ACT, 2002) and e.s.t.. Live in Hamburg (ACT, 2007)--one of The Times UK's top albums of the last decade--culminating in Leucocyte (ACT, 2008). The trio's steady rise in the jazz sphere was abruptly truncated by pianist Svensson's tragic death in a scuba diving accident, ...
Continue ReadingDan Berglund's Tonbruket: Dan Berglund's Tonbruket
by Chris May
Since the death of pianist Esbjörn Svensson in summer 2008, a few months before the release of e.s.t.'s Leucocyte (ACT Music, 2008)--an album which seemed to promise a second revolutionary stage in the Swedish group's music--fans have been obliged to look elsewhere for rock-infused reorientations of the piano trio tradition. There have been plenty of places to look, but nowhere quite like e.s.t. itself. Inevitably, attention has focused on the surviving members of the trio, bassist Dan Berglund and drummer ...
Continue Readinge.s.t.: Retrospective: The Very Best of e.s.t.
by John Kelman
Swedish pianist Esbjörn Svensson's accidental death in 2008 shook the jazz world, with AAJ news items surrounding his passing garnering tens of thousands of reads. Already jazz superstars in Europe, Svensson and e.s.t. were still building a North American audience, touring regularly to gradually grow its fan base; clearly it was working. All the more tragic, then, that the trio had just put the finishing touches to Leucocyte (ACT, 2008), a significant evolutionary leap forward. Where the group would have ...
Continue ReadingEsbjörn Svensson Trio: e.s.t. Live in Hamburg
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il trio di Esbjörn Svensson, dopo aver ricevuto un buon consenso di critica e pubblico nel paese d'origine, ha ottenuto la consacrazione internazionale nel 2001 quando, a Umbria Jazz, ha destato interesse e critiche al tempo stesso. Era l'epoca di Good Morning Susie Soho, cui avrebbero poi fatto seguito album altrettanto belli e mai ripetitivi. Oggi, continuano a dividere: c'è chi ne è entusiasta e grida al miracolo e chi non ne vuol sentire parlare per i forti riferimenti a ...
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