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Tuesday Wonderland by: Esbjorn Svensson Trio (E.S.T.) List Price: £15.99 CD-Charts Price: £9.98 You Save: £6.01 (38%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0614427901620 Label: Act Manufacturer: Act Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Act Release Date: May 01, 2007 Studio: Act Sales Rank: 1388 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: E.S.T. like to play with expectations, and they begin Tuesday Wonderland as you might assume, with a spare solo piano line hinting at a delicate baroque counterpoint. It's the kind of feather-stroked chamber jazz they've been working for a few years now. But just as you settle in, crushing drums and fuzzed arco bass drop in a groove from the apocalypse. This ominous track, "Fading Maid Preludium," and its second half, "Fading Maid Postludium," frame Tuesday Wonderland, setting in bas-relief an album of careening, intuitive improvisation. E.S.T. are frighteningly varied in their technique and deep in their understanding of jazz lore. You can hear echoes of Keith Jarrett and Ahmad Jamal in pianist Esbjörn Svensson, from whom the trio take their name, but he also embraces a more modern vocabulary, hinting at Cecil Taylor while dancing gospel vamps and dropping rock power-chords. Drummer Magnus Öström can lay down the shuffling brush strokes of "The Goldhearted Miner," pour out a progressive rock fusillade, or do a ballet of polyrhythmic shadings and colors that recall the late Steve McCall. The real chameleon of the group is bassist Dan Berglund. He plays soulful, muscular double bass lines, but he also triggers a synthesizer for both subtle shading and the hellion roar heard on that opening track. E.S.T. remain a group exploring the edges of jazz improvisation, managing to be free and intuitive while also maintaining melodic and rhythmic touchstones. Tracks like "Brewery of Beggars" are multipart journeys shifting from gentle lyricism to electric storms. E.S.T. have evolved from being the most ECM-like band that wasn't on ECM into their own natural and thoroughly modern hybrid. --John Diliberto Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - excellent euro jazzfading made preludium 30 seconds of blissfully quiet piano before grinding, crashing godspeed-esque noise and chaos, electric bass flanged and feeding back like a guitar for the next three minutes tuesday wonderland repetitive, kraut-ey piano riff, almost like life's what you make it by talk talk, bass drops in, other piano layers and twirls dance around skittish drums simple acoustic bass patterns at deceptive speed. glacial concentric circles and swirls the goldhearted miner twanging acoustic strings give way to piano and slow, sweeping drum brushes, occasionally the twanging strings re-emerge as a motif. autumnal, balladic, falling leaves, frosty paygrounds ... Read More: Rating: - It's Rock and Roll, but not as we know it, Jim...After a slightly disappointing "Viaticum", we are now back on track with an album of ferocity and tenderness. This is "Seven Days of Falling" and "Strange Place for Snow" with added menace. A bass player who obviously thinks he is Jimi Hendrix - with screaming "feed-back" lines, a drummer who sounds as if he could have been in Smashing Pumpkins or Van Der Graaf - and a pianist who out-Jarretts Keith Jarrett! But it's Jazz, Jim. It says it's Jazz on the Tin. And Jazz it surely is - but with such ferocity - spiralling piano runs, howling bass-lines and the approaching thunderstorm on drums. Brilliant! (and thanks, Amazon for popping it into my recommendations...) Rating: - jagged edge jazz with a sprinkling of softnessIntelligent, aggressive with hints of industrial surges, this album by EST is reminiscent of the last and yet able to further push the boundaries of contemporary jazz. This is not for the fait hearted traditionalist jazz lovers. This is indeed a new genre of jazz which few musicians have been able to transcend, Pat Metheny perhaps being one example, the other example steadfast occupied by EST. If you like the previous stuff, you'll not go wrong here. Track 4, Brewery of Beggars is truly intoxicating. Sit back and prepare to be moved.......... Rating: - StunningThese three unassuming guys from Sweden just keep going from strength to strength. They're a jazz trio which fuse rock, pop, jazz and classical music into something so original, so fresh and so touching that you really do have to hear it to believe it. As the previous reviewer said, "Tuesday Wonderland" has more of 2003's "Seven Days of Falling" about it rather than 2005's "Viaticum", but the house style certainly remains very much in evidence. Wonderful, enchanting ballads are interspersed with uplifting, energetic almost rock-like jazz that really does stand these guys apart from their contemporaries. And as EST begin to break the US (they recently made the cover of Downbeat Magazine - the first European jazz group ever to do so) ... Read More: Rating: - Another E.S.T.-classic...To be very honest..I only heard some preview-files and four tracks of this album on the web-radio. But I've heard enough to be very enthousiastic! The music takes the mix of classical/melodic jazz and electronics one step further. Think equal measures of Bill Evans, Bach, Metallica and Radiohead and add a brilliant interplay between piano, bass and drums. Compared to their previous albums it's close to the light, melodious sound of 'Seven Days of Falling'; even though it starts off with the heavy and dark "Failing Maid Preludium" it's filled with light melodies and fine jazz-ballads. |
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