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  • Label: ECM , 2002
  • Order number: 7339105
  • Release date: 18.3.2003
+ Harald Johnson, Jarle Vespestad

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Introducing a new piano trio from Norway. Tord Gustavsen’s young group, already making waves in the Far North – where “Changing Places” has soared into the pop charts – is telling new stories within the framework of the jazz tradition. This is music that sings, at once gentle and robust. The songs Gustavsen writes sound like standards-in-the-making: lyrical, immediately memorable songs, songs of an appealing freshness, yet sophisticated in their involvement with the melodic line. And the trio improvises, with flair and originality, inside their structures.

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"Die Schönheit ist nicht nur hehr und sanft, sondern - bei allem Leisen, zu dem diese Musiker fähig sind - auch voller Intensität." (Roland Spiegel, Abendzeitung)

"A truly beautiful record that (if there's any justice) will find a place as one of ECM's finest releases of the last few years, and probably a place in your heart too. Gorgeous." (Peter Marsh, BBC Online)

"The magic of music has rarely been in better hands than on this beautiful debut album by the trio of pianist Tord Gustavsen." (Kevin Jones, The Australian)

Press comments

B. Klostermann in FonoForum 5 / 03: "Souverän schöpft Pianist und Leader Tord Gustavsen aus einer genauen Kenntnis der Jazz-Geschichte; in seinen Kompositionen verbindet er den ruhigen, introvertierten Gestus des nordischen Jazz mit einem verhaltenen, aber stets präsenten Groove. Sein luftiges, transparentes Spiel lässt den beiden Partnern viel Raum, den Harald Johnsen und Jarle Vespestad für sparsame Akzentsetzung nutzen."

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