Hey y'all...I just saw the most fantastic Jazz trio tonight. They're called "The Tord Gustavson Trio", and they were just too much. Really progressive, forward moving jazz with piano, drums, and bass. They have two albums on ECM if anyone is so inclined. Really, if you're a Jazz fan, check these guys out!

jackmitz said:

Thank you for noting that!

jackmitz said:

how did you hear about them?
where did you see them?
where are they from?

Cool

OK, I'll bite...I'll check'em out.. Y R U promoting them?..R U 1 of them?

jackmitz said:

Ok, I will check them out.

Also featured in this month's...



...issue of JazzTimes.

Tord Gustavsen: Quiet is the New Loud
by Stuart Nicholson
An Excerpt from the May 2005 issue



Known as "The City of Dreaming Spires," the university buildings of Oxford include some of England's finest architecture, dating back to Anglo-Saxon and Norman times. For more than 800 years Oxford has been home to royalty and scholars, and today tourists come from around the world to visit its historic sites such as the Bodleian Library, the Ashmolean Museum or Balliol College, founded in 1263. Huge buses fill the city all year round, clogging up streets that were laid out in much less congested times. It's something to consider if you're ever thinking of driving across the city.
Caught in the midday traffic, I'm about 20 minutes late for my meeting with pianist Tord Gustavsen. Once I arrive and make the usual apologies, it's immediately apparent he's one of those guys who isn't fazed by anything. The 34-year-old Norwegian projects an aura of calm that seems to fill the space around him.

At a medium height and slightly built, there's a coiled-spring intensity about Gustavsen-one that finds focus in his tune "Colors of Mercy." It's an abstracted alleluia whose hymnlike quality he made soar the night before in the Holywell Music Room, the oldest concert hall in Europe, where Handel once played. Gustavsen, bassist Harald Johnsen and drummer Jarle Vespestad are midway through a tour of the U.K., and the pianist is delighted with the way it's going. Every concert is sold out, yet there's been no advertising, no campaign in the media; word simply seems to have spread about this remarkable young trio. And it was the same with the trio's debut album from 2003, Changing Places. Within a year it had notched sales of 65,000 worldwide, which not only took Gustavsen but also his record company by surprise. To put those sales in perspective, the average number of units sold for a CD by a name jazz instrumentalist is about 3,000; 10,000 is considered good, and 25,000 in sales make it, in jazz terms, a hit record.

The Tord Gustavsen Trio's much anticipated second album, The Ground, which went to the top of the Norwegian album chart on release in January, continues the musical odyssey begun in Changing Places by getting deeper into those moods of faint melancholy you experience when gazing out of the window on a wet Sunday afternoon. "After the first release we found more and more a way of playing together that, while it was very sparse, we were getting sensuality out of that acutely 'listening' type of playing," he says.

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Continued in the May 2005 issue

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Thanks for posting that article.

nice