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E.S.T. (Esbjorn Svensson trio)

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Topic: E.S.T. (Esbjorn Svensson trio)

Posted By: Prog Geo
Subject: E.S.T. (Esbjorn Svensson trio)
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2011 at 6:42pm

I think that I should have done it before as a big E.S.T. fan. So, I wait for your opinions.

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Posted By: idlero
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2011 at 5:00am

Probably best known european trio, inspiration source for many contemporary jazz artists and among my favourite jazz artists

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I think the problem with a lot of the fusion music is that it's extremely predictable, it's a rock rhythm and the solos all play the same stuff and they play it over and over again ...
Ken Burns

Posted By: Jazz Pianist
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2011 at 11:20am

Tuesday Wonderland is a great album

Posted By: Prog Geo
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2011 at 11:40am

The title composition is fantastic.

Posted By: Jazz Pianist
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2011 at 1:59pm

I remember playing it actually, great fun to improvise over. Also ES wasn't too bad of a player either, very simple stuff but it's almost lyrical, kind of reminds me of a modern Bill Evans in a way.

Posted By: Prog Geo
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2011 at 2:39pm

Generally the lyrical music appeals me. Maybe that's why I like E.S.T.

Posted By: Jazz Pianist
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2011 at 2:52pm

You'd probably love Bill Evans, although I don't want to detract from the thread

What are your opinions on Seven Days of Falling?

Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2011 at 4:17pm

Candidate for biggest fan.

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Posted By: Prog Geo
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2011 at 4:39pm

Yes. I like Bill Evans. Seven days of falling was the first album I bought by them. The title track is (maybe) my favorite E.S.T. composition. This year I bought Viaticum. I want to buy all of their albums. The bad thing is that ACT label has expensive releases. The albums of E.S.T. cost 17,50 euros. But yesterday I saw that two albums of Panzerballett cost 10 euros. That's good.

Posted By: Jazz Pianist
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2011 at 4:50pm

Prog Geo wrote:

Yes. I like Bill Evans. Seven days of falling was the first album I bought by them. The title track is (maybe) my favorite E.S.T. composition. This year I bought Viaticum. I want to buy all of their albums. The bad thing is that ACT label has expensive releases. The albums of E.S.T. cost 17,50 euros. But yesterday I saw that two albums of Panzerballett cost 10 euros. That's good.

Yeah he's one of the most revolutionary jazz musicians of all time, to put my opinions bluntly

Back to EST though, I love In My Garage off Seven Days... the modal harmony is gorgeous. Then again, that could be said for all of their stuff, although I also love the rhythmic drive in this one too. The solo is pretty hot too.

Posted By: Prog Geo
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2011 at 5:03pm

You must listen to the tribute to E.S.T. that Alyn Shipton of Jazz library did on BBC radio 3. I liked it.

Posted By: Noak2
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2011 at 8:34pm

Live in Hamburg = AMAZING

Posted By: idlero
Date Posted: 01 Jul 2011 at 6:23am

I must thank Mezzo TV for playing EST pieces in their programs, that's how I discovered them at a time when Mezzo TV were my main source for new artists discoveries in jazz

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I think the problem with a lot of the fusion music is that it's extremely predictable, it's a rock rhythm and the solos all play the same stuff and they play it over and over again ...
Ken Burns

Posted By: snobb
Date Posted: 01 Jul 2011 at 6:52am

I saw them playing live some years ago in small Balkan town - I didn't know them till that moment. Absolutely trippy concert - if someone knows those small Balkan towns with lot of homeless dogs walking around main street, Gypsies walking around with bicycles and bringing all metal scrap somewhere, relaxed people drinking coffee hour after hour (it looks no-one works there,what is not far from truth) in street cafes.... There was a town's theater and some local enthusiasts organised kind of "jazz fest" with help of some Western cultural organizations.

Late evening local respectable citizens went to see the show - they expected to see lot of brass on a manner of local Gypsy bands or some "turbo-folk" (mix of Balkan and Turkish tunes and danceable drum machine's rhythm), but they were ... not disappointed, but kind of shocked. They never imagine "jazz" could sound like that (some of them left the hall soon, but many just stayed because it was one of a few concerts in their town that year).

At that time I lived just 100 km from that town so crossed the border and visited the show - and I was really impressed (possibly because that music sounded as aliens sounds in that place) LOL

Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: 01 Jul 2011 at 7:43am

Great description Slava. What town was that?

Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: 01 Jul 2011 at 7:56am

They played in my hometown and it was barely six months after I discovered them. Then again, I discovered them because I heard they'll be the superstarring in my hometown's jazz festival - 1st edition (December 2006), and thinking back it went very well, with local bands making a stance, big Romanian names like Liviu Butoi & Mircea Tiberian putting on a rough avant-garde endless improv, finally Tord Gustavsson & Eberhard Weber blowing the place up: the 2nd edition was fine too, but since the festival got cancelled for lack of funds, twice already.

So I think a lot of my newborn passion for E.S.T. centered around that concert. The concert.

Being novelty, I was in my usual skeptical-dickhead-"they-can't-be-something-special-I've-already-heard-everything-that's-great-in-music" mood upon hearing they'll be playing, but by the time the big day arrived I was already a Viaticum diehard, wishing they will play all my favourites off that album (The Unstable Table..., The Well-Wisher). And they did! The focus was also around Tuesday Wonderland, their most recent work that time around - so they basically combined their last two albums, with the traditional encore, Dodge the Dodo.

The spectacular Live in Hamburg was actually recorded in the fall of 2006, so you can imagine yourselves how incendiary it was, full of energy, lenghtened hits (with chunks of electro-static transitions). The Opera concert hall was packed and it didn't take long for everyone to roar between pieces. Standing with my dad in the highest lodge was also nice memory, he was very impressed, saying "this is how it's done" compared to the rest of the program. I was desperate to make a lot of pictures, so after 15 minutes he stopped me and said 'calm down, dammit, and enjoy it".

Still one of my favourite concerts ever.

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Posted By: snobb
Date Posted: 01 Jul 2011 at 8:23am