CD ACT Esbjorn Svensson Trio: Live In Hamburg

2007

Esbjorn Svensson - pian, claviaturi, percutie
Dan Berglund - bas, percutie
Magnus Ostrom - tobe, percutie


Inregistrat live de catre NDR la Laeiszhalle, Hamburg pe 22 noiembrie 2006

Mixat de catre Ake Linton la Bohus Sound Recording Studios, intre 31 august si 6 septembrie 2007

Masterizat de catre Dragan Tanaskovic la Bohus Masteringpe 10 si 13 septembrie 2007

The Guardian:

"Anybody who wants the quintessential Esbjörn Svensson gig (if they're fans, that is - EST's music is viewed as a slick hit-formula by some improv fundamentalists) can tick this CD as a must. EST's mix of jazz-ballad delicacy, rock melodrama, subtle electronic colouring, and hypnotic Jarrett and Mehldau-inspired extemporisation consistently produces powerful live shows.

This Hamburg concert double album is based on the music from Tuesday Wonderland in 2006. Svensson, who is sometimes considered more of a composer or a conceptualist than a creative piano improviser, is full of Brad Mehldau-inflected surprises on the unaccompanied section of The Rube Thing. Even the most diehard of jazzers would enjoy the sly bluesy insinuations of Where We Used to Live.

EST paint a seductive panorama of jazz and western-pop history, but they also add their own twists - such as bassist Dan Berglund's guitar-like wah-wah on the gospelly Definition of a Dog, or the twangy prepared-piano inflections on the ballad The Goldhearted Miner. Sipping On the Solid Ground could almost be Fleetwood Mac's Albatross. They press all the buttons, but it never sounds like a cynical exercise."