Esbjörn Svensson Trio: e.s.t. Live in London

Rating: ★★★★

Record and Artist Details

Musicians:

Esbjörn Svensson (p)
Magnus Öström (d)
Dan Berglund (b)

Label:

ACT 9042-2

June/2018

RecordDate:

20 May 2005

It is now 10 years since the tragic and untimely death of Esbjörn Svensson: a decade in which a new generation of fans and students will have engaged with his music, yet to whom Svensson's significance will have been diminished by the passage of time. So this excellent album is a timely reminder of the emotional and aesthetic appeal of a group whose music crossed barriers of age, ethnicity and genre to reach beyond jazz, not just in Europe, but the US itself. The complete Barbican concert is included in this 2CD set, but one small cavil – the opportunity to use cover art to provide an aesthetic entry point into the music has been missed, along with liner notes to fulfil a similar function. Maybe a contemporaneous press review of the concert could have been used to set the scene?

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