Jazz Articles about Magnus Ostrom

About Magnus Ostrom

Album Review

Some things take time. Perhaps Magnus Ostrom's third offering Parachute, will signal the end of the need for comparisons to his former iconic enterprise--The Esbjorn Svensson Trio. Or perhaps not. Tall order, that. Even eight years and multiple solo albums after Svensson's tragic death, EST still casts a long shadow for both its surviving members. One that Ostrom may have indeed earned passage from with his group (likewise for EST bassist Dan Berglund with his group, ...

Album Review

Magnus Ostrom: Searching For Jupiter

Read "Searching For Jupiter" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
October 21, 2013

Time is the great healer. Certainly there are signs that the two years since Thread of Life (ACT Music, 2011)--drummer/composer Magnus Öström's emotionally charged debut as leader--have helped him better cope with the death in 2008 of pianist Esbjorn Svensson-- his colleague of 15 years in the influential trio e.s.t. That album's cover showed a bare-chested Öström clutching a cymbal against a Bible-black void; jarringly atypical of ACT Music's aesthetic, it screamed of grief and naked pain. The music cried ...

Live Review

Magnus Ostrom Band at Ronnie Scott's

by Jamie Skey
October 1, 2013

Magnus Ostrom Ronnie Scott's London September 16, 2013 “What guarantee do we have that the future will come? That we will be able to experience it? We generally live in our Western society separated from death. We don't think about it. Talk seldom about it. Suppress it preferably. But suddenly, it hits us. Close or at a distance. But almost always with astonishing power. Everything stays put. And we suddenly experience our fragility, our loneliness, ...

Live Review

Magnus Ostrom at Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, Ireland

by Ian Patterson
September 29, 2013

Magnus ÖströmSolstice Arts CentreNavan, IrelandSeptember 20, 2013 That Magnus Öström's quartet made it to Navan at all was good going given that the band's previous gig had been on a Scottish island boasting no fewer than eight whisky distilleries. The Scottish--as the quartet discovered--take their whisky and their hospitality seriously. That gig was part of the three-day Lagavulin Islay Jazz Festival, one of a growing number of jazz festivals popping up throughout the British Isles. ...

Album Review

Magnus Ostrom: Searching For Jupiter

Read "Searching For Jupiter" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
September 2, 2013

For fifteen years Magnus Öström was the drummer with the Esbjörn Svensson Trio, known to many as e.s.t. For much of that time e.s.t. was one of the most successful jazz bands in the world, an innovative yet accessible group that seemed poised for ever greater success. When Svensson died in a diving accident in June 2008 both Öström and bassist Dan Berglund took time out. Öström returned to recording in late 2010, releasing Thread Of Life (ACT Music) the ...

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Interview

Magnus Ostrom: Late Night Playing, Humble Playing

by Bruce Lindsay
March 22, 2011

As the drummer with the Esbjörn Svensson Trio (e.s.t.) Magnus Öström became one of the most successful European jazz musicians of the last twenty years. Influenced by a range of musics, his percussion style was a key element of the band's distinctive sound, while the Trio's success over the 15 years of its existence brought it international fame and brought Öström to the attention of a world-wide audience. After Svensson's death in a diving accident in June ...

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Album Review

e.s.t.: Retrospective: The Very Best of e.s.t.

Read "Retrospective: The Very Best of e.s.t." reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
October 2, 2009

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 ...