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Nils Landgren/Esbjorn Svensson: Swedish Folk Modern

Read "Swedish Folk Modern" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
March 18, 2004

Contrary to Wynton Marsalis and Stanley Crouch, jazz is no longer an American or, even more specifically, Afro-American art form. Jazz has, in fact, always been about incorporating music from various traditions, folk and otherwise, into something of a cultural melting pot. While American musicians including John Coltrane, Louis Armstrong and Miles Davis looked to African ...

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Strange Place For Snow

By Esbjorn Svensson

Label: Columbia Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: The Message; Serenade for the Renegade; Strange Place for Snow; Behind the Yashmak; Bound for the Beauty of the South; Years of Yearning; When God Created the Coffeebreak; Spunky Sprawl; Carcrash.

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Esbjorn Svensson Trio (e.s.t.): Strange Place For Snow

Read "Strange Place For Snow" reviewed by Jim Santella

by Jim Santella
June 1, 2002

Classic acoustic jazz need not be a mirror image of our record collections. The Esbjörn Svensson Trio proves that the art form can sound as fresh and new as it was when Bill Evans, Dave Brubeck, Marian McPartland, Oscar Peterson and Billy Taylor first began reaching out in new directions. Svensson, Dan Berglund and Magnus Öström ...

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Somewhere Else Before

By Esbjorn Svensson

Label: Columbia Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Somewhere Else Before; Dodge the Dodo; From Gagarin's Point of View; The Return of Mohammed; The Face of Love; Pavanne "Thoughts of a Septuagenarian"; The Wraith; The Chapel; In the Face of Day; Spam-Boo-Limbo; Hidden Track.

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E.S.T.: Somewhere Else Before

Read "Somewhere Else Before" reviewed by Jim Santella

by Jim Santella
September 1, 2001

The Esbjörn Svensson Trio offers natural sounds with innovative extras. Formed in 1993, the piano trio plays straight-ahead jazz the way we remember it, and the way it should live forever. They've released six CDs in Sweden so far. This album is a collection of tracks from their last two CDs: From Gagarin's Point of View ...

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Esbjorn Svensson Trio: Somewhere Else Before

Read "Somewhere Else Before" reviewed by David Adler

by David Adler
July 1, 2001

A few weeks ago, the New York Times ran a big article by Stuart Nicholson on the “new European jazz." The article spotlighted jazzers from overseas like Nils Petter Molvaer, “Magic" Malik Mezzadri, Bugge Wesseltoft, and Eivind Aarset (the article didn't mention Erik Truffaz)--artists who are blending acoustic jazz with turntables, drum-n-bass beats, and/or other club-culture ...