Esbjörn Svensson Trio

The Esbjörn Svensson Trio ( est), was a Swedish jazz trio that was founded in 1993 and existed without line-up changes to the accidental death of Esbjörn Svensson 2008.

Members of the trio were pianist Esbjörn Svensson, bassist Dan Berglund and drummer Magnus Öström. e.s.t. was not only one of the most famous representatives of the Scandinavian jazz scene, but also one of Europe's most successful jazz groups.

The music combines jazz with elements designed by pop music and drum and bass.

The trio

In order to realize his musical ideas Svensson found in Magnus Öström and from 1993 in Dan Berglund the appropriate musicians for his Esbjörn Svensson Trio. In the same year the trio released its debut album, When Everyone Has Gone. A short time later followed by other publications.

The mid-1990s, the trio in Sweden had made ​​a name. 1995 and 1996, Svensson was awarded Swedish "Jazz Musician of the Year ". Published in 1997 CD Winter in Venice was awarded the Swedish Grammis. With the 1999 album From Gagarin 's published Point of View and the participation in the festival and Montreux Jazz Baltica international breakthrough was achieved.

A year later played e.s.t. the most important festivals in Europe, USA and Japan. The album Strange Place for Snow was awarded the Annual Prize of the German Record Critics and other international awards. Pieces on this CD were chosen as the soundtrack for a movie. Seven Days of Falling had resounding success in Europe, USA and Japan. The trio was subsequently awarded in 2004 with the Hans Koller Prize. 2005 was seen as the first European Formation on the front page of the prestigious U.S. magazine Down Beat. The death of Esbjörn Svensson in a diving accident in 2008 had the resolution of formation result.

Career

In music, the trio breaks are audible, both musically and socially. However, his radicalism never went so far as to forget his roots. The three stressed again and again to take full responsibility in the American jazz tradition without holding it. With its layers of sound enhancements, partly by electronic means, the trio has found his own " percussive breathing, is widely evolving music."

The band had a different playing position than traditional jazz groups: they consisted " in their penchant for riffs in forced pulse of the rhythm section, but especially the fact that they sought to define their own sound like a rock band, often using electronic devices. " Changes were " the timing and interaction " between the musicians: " the trio had an organic form of improvisation developed, it seemed that no one would play solo, it did it all at once. "

E.s.t. was actually an impossibility in itself: it saw itself as a pop band, played the jazz. The trio differed from other jazz groups of the present by the fact that the musicians very focused on the work in this formation and hardly distracted with other projects. The three soloists played not only Jazzgigs, but were also there where normally played rock bands.

Discography

• When Everyone Has Gone, 1993
• E.S.T. Live '95, 1995
• E.S.T. Plays Monk, 1996
• Winter in Venice, in 1997 awarded the Swedish Grammis price
• From Gagarin 's Point of View, 1999
• Good Morning Susie Soho, 2000
• Strange Place for Snow, in 2002 awarded the Annual Prize of the German Record Critics' Award 2002
• Live in Stockholm 2003 DVD Date in December 2000, with interview
• Seven Days of Falling, awarded the 2003 Swedish Grammis price
• Viaticum, awarded the 2005 Swedish Grammis price
• Tuesday Wonderland, in 2006 awarded the Swedish Grammis price
• Live in Hamburg, 2007, on 22 November 2006 in Laeiszhalle, recording the NDR
• Leucocyte, 2008 taken in Sydney, January 2007
• Retrospective - The Very Best of E.S.T., 2009
• 301, 2012 taken in Sydney, Studio 301, January 2007