E.S.T. (Esbjorn Svensson trio)

Probably best known european trio, inspiration source for many contemporary jazz artists  and among my favourite jazz artists

The title composition is fantastic.

Generally the lyrical music appeals me. Maybe that's why I like E.S.T. 

Candidate for biggest fan.

Prog Geo wrote: Yes. I like Bill Evans. Seven days of falling was the first album I bought by them. The title track is (maybe) my favorite E.S.T. composition. This year I bought Viaticum. I want to buy all of their albums. The bad thing is that ACT label has expensive releases. The albums of E.S.T. cost 17,50 euros. But yesterday I saw that two albums of Panzerballett cost 10 euros. That's good.

Yeah he's one of the most revolutionary jazz musicians of all time, to put my opinions bluntly

Back to EST though, I love In My Garage off Seven Days... the modal harmony is gorgeous. Then again, that could be said for all of their stuff, although I also love the rhythmic drive in this one too. The solo is pretty hot too.

Live in Hamburg = AMAZING

I saw them playing live some years ago in small Balkan town - I didn't know them till that moment. Absolutely trippy concert - if someone knows those small Balkan towns with lot of homeless dogs walking around main street, Gypsies walking around with bicycles and bringing all metal scrap somewhere, relaxed people drinking coffee hour after hour (it looks no-one works there,what is not far from truth) in street cafes....  There was a town's theater and some local enthusiasts organised kind of "jazz fest" with help of some Western cultural organizations. 

Edited by snobb - 01 Jul 2011 at 8:25am

They played in my hometown and it was barely six months after I discovered them. Then again, I discovered them because I heard they'll be the superstarring in my hometown's jazz festival - 1st edition (December 2006), and thinking back it went very well, with local bands making a stance, big Romanian names like Liviu Butoi & Mircea Tiberian putting on a rough avant-garde endless improv, finally Tord Gustavsson & Eberhard Weber blowing the place up: the 2nd edition was fine too, but since the festival got cancelled for lack of funds, twice already.

So I think a lot of my newborn passion for E.S.T. centered around that concert. The concert.

Being novelty, I was in my usual skeptical-dickhead-"they-can't-be-something-special-I've-already-heard-everything-that's-great-in-music" mood upon hearing they'll be playing, but by the time the big day arrived I was already a Viaticum diehard, wishing they will play all my favourites off that album (The Unstable Table..., The Well-Wisher). And they did! The focus was also around Tuesday Wonderland, their most recent work that time around - so they basically combined their last two albums, with the traditional encore, Dodge the Dodo.

The spectacular Live in Hamburg was actually recorded in the fall of 2006, so you can imagine yourselves how incendiary it was, full of energy, lenghtened hits (with chunks of electro-static transitions). The Opera concert hall was packed and it didn't take long for everyone to roar between pieces. Standing with my dad in the highest lodge was also nice memory, he was very impressed, saying "this is how it's done" compared to the rest of the program. I was desperate to make a lot of pictures, so after 15 minutes he stopped me and said 'calm down, dammit, and enjoy it".

Still one of my favourite concerts ever.


Edited by Ricochet - 01 Jul 2011 at 8:00am

Thanks for the replies. Unfortunately, I lost the chance to see them for just one time. 

Was me?
Good anyways.


Edited by Ricochet - 04 Jul 2011 at 11:10am