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Being There by: Tord Gustavsen Trio List Price: £14.99 CD-Charts Price: £9.98 You Save: £5.01 (33%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0602517235175 Label: ECM Manufacturer: ECM Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: ECM Release Date: April 30, 2007 Studio: ECM Sales Rank: 2336 MPN: 000875702 Disc 1:
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 Rating: - Consistently superbAn original album that spans from classic beauty to blues and funky notes. Once I got it into my CD player I did not remove it for a long time - one of those that finds of true treasue that happen once a year..... Rating: - Being ThereThis is no less and no more than the first two. The three seem to meld together and a luscious trio of trios results. I always hesitate on which one to choose and usually listen to all three (if I have the luxury of time), on the trot. Rating: - A new level of quiet rapture "Being There" takes the quiet rapture of the trio's previous album (The Ground) to a new level. There are beautiful slow pieces that gradually unfold with paradoxically crystalline warmth (At Home, Draw Near, Sani, Still There), an intriguing angular piece (Karmosin) and three up-tempo numbers - the funky Blessed Feet, the Spanish-tinged Where We Went and my favourite, Vicar Street. Half of the track is a tense, urgent build-up that then resolves into a gorgeous yearning theme. I've seen some great drummers and percussionists in my time (e.g. Airto Moreira, Mike Shrieve of Santana, Zakir Hussein) and the trio's Jarle Vesperstad is up there with the best, but in his own distinctive way. In his hands a standard drum ... Read More: Rating: - From EST to Tord GustavsenAbout three years ago, stuck on a motorway in a blizzard for hours, I stumbled upon flicking through the radio channels, a concert by EST and was imediatly hooked. Having now bought all their CD's plus the video recording Amazon kept recomending Tord Gustavsen to me, what the heck I thought and bought "Being There" unheard. Thanks Amazon for forcing my hand. At first the music did not grab me, not foot tappingly funky like EST, another reviewer said "is it jazz" and I know what he meant. I don't know what it is either but after a few listenings it will really get ya. Isn't it strange how often the things that at first don't grab get to be more liked than some records you liked from first hearing. This is fantastic ... Read More: Rating: - I'm thereThis album is ace. I didn't like it at first, not at all. I thought it was just too slow, unremarkable and dull. But I'm really getting the hang of this now - gustavsen is a very lyrical piano player, and slow suits him. The compositions are tuneful enough to be played in a completely unhurried way. Apparently he plays in a church, and you can certainly hear some hymn and gospel influences in the tunes, as well as classical themes - some of the tracks sound like beethoven sonatas or schubert impromptus. There's some debate about whether this is really jazz or not - irrelevant of course, as it's really good. I'm going to order TGT's other two albums right now. |
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