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Jazz Champion Esbjorn Svensson Dies at 44
The Swedish jazz pianist and composer Esbjorn Svensson has died in a scuba diving accident near the Swedish capital Stockholm. He was 44. His Esbjorn Svensson Trio, known as EST, became renowned for bringing jazz to a younger audience. They gained international acclaim playing in rock venues, using light shows and fog machines at concerts. The ...
Swedish Jazz Star Esbjorn Svensson Dies in Diving Accident
STOCKHOLM (AFP) -- Swedish jazz star Esbjorn Svensson was killed at the weekend in a scuba diving accident off Stockholm, his manager said Monday. He was 44. According to Swedish media reports, Svensson had been diving with a group and an instructor in the Stockholm archipelago when he suddenly disappeared. The married father of two had ...
Jazz Pianist Esbjorn Svensson Killed in Scuba Accident
Esbjorn Svensson, the genre-defying Swedish jazz pianist and composer, has died in a scuba diving accident, his manager said yesterday. Burkhard Hopper, manager of the Esbjorn Svensson Trio (E.S.T.), said that Svensson died on Saturday in Sweden's Stockholm archipelago. He was 44. According to the website allaboutjazz.com, he had been swimming near a jetty with several ...
Live in Hamburg
Label: ACT Music
Released: 2007
Track listing: CD1: Tuesday Wonderland; The Rube Thing; Where We Used to Live; Eighthundred Streets of Feet; Definition of a Dog. CD2: The Goldhearted Miner; Dolores in a Shoestand; Slipping on the Solid Ground; Goldwrap; Behind the Yashmak.
Tuesday Wonderland
Label: ACT Music
Released: 2007
Track listing: Fading Maid Preludium; Tuesday Wonderland; The Goldhearted Miner; Brewery of Beggars; Beggar's Blanket; Dolores in a Shoestand; Where We Used to Live; Eighthundred Steets By Feet; Goldwrap; Slipping on the Solid Ground; Fading Maid Postludum.
Esbjorn Svensson Trio (e.s.t.): Live in Hamburg
by John Kelman
A lot has happened to e.s.t. since its last live album, Live '95 (ACT, 2001). By the time that album hit the streets the trio had already become one of Europe's most successful jazz acts and was beginning to make inroads into the North American market. But e.s.t was still young and hungry when it was ...
Esbjorn Svensson Trio (e.s.t.): Tuesday Wonderland
by John Kelman
For its first release to be distributed by a major label since Strange Place for Snow (Columbia, 2002), the Esöjorn Svensson Trio (e.s.t.) continues to mine and expand the road traveled on Seven Days of Falling (215 Records, 2004) and Viaticum (215 Records, 2005). Tuesday Wonderland doesn't exactly break new ground for e.s.t., but equally it's ...
Esbjorn Svensson: Viaticum
by Renato Wardle
The Esbjörn Svensson Trio, a self-proclaimed “pop group that plays jazz," exists in between the musical realms of the ECM juggernaut Bobo Stenson Trio and art rockers Radiohead. Viaticum represents a culmination of years of relentless cooperative musical discovery for the group, which has been together since 1993. This music, possessed of a cinematic ...
The Esbj: Viaticum
by Woodrow Wilkins
While the piano-led trio is one of the staples of jazz, it can conform to tradition so much that it fails to connect with listeners on an emotional level. Not so with E.S.T. This Scandinavian group adheres to the form just enough to be considered a jazz trio, but between original compositions and sound enhancements that ...
Viaticum
Label: ACT Music
Released: 2005
Track listing: Tide of Trepidation; Eighty-eight Days in My Veins; The Well-wisher; The Unstable Table & The Infamous Fable; Viaticum; In the Tail of Her Eye; Leter From the Leviathan; A Picture of Doris Travelling with Boris; What Though the Way May be Long.
