![]() ![]() First, is it the most daring or original record the band have produced? No, it isn’t. And this prompts us to ask three questions about 301. (particularly “Ballad For The Unborn” and “O.D.R.I.P” from 2004’s Seven Days of Falling). ![]() ![]() It reproduces the opaque progressivism of things like Leucocyte’s “Premonition: Earth” on “Houston, The 5th” and “Three Falling Free Part II” but, then again, things like opener “Behind The Stars” and closer “The Childhood Dream” actually sound like advanced versions of things that we’ve already heard from e.s.t. But inevitably, and rather obviously, 301 shares some of its atmosphere and ambience. The three of them entered the studio without any proper plans – with the intention to just play – so one gets little sense that this is Leucocyte Part II. However, each and every one of the seven tracks on offer here is a spur-of-the-moment improvised piece. But isn’t that what innovation is all about?ģ01 is a selection from the reels of material the band recorded during the sessions for their 2008 album Leucocyte. ![]() And he pissed off a lot of jazz purists in the process. To his credit, Esbjörn Svensson managed to make jazz music that was as accessible as it was challenging, and he neither sold his soul to “smooth jazz” nor fossilised himself under the weight of jazz fusion. In this sense, it’s not unlike some of the other rather scary euphemisms of this brave new hypermodern world – say, “connectivity” or “quantitative easing” – in that it’s become all too easily associated with making other peoples’ Big Decisions sound bigger and more decisive.īut Esbjörn Svensson was a real innovator: his towering achievement was to build on the already-sophisticated foundations of post-bop by adding the steely glaze of electronic sounds. It’s used to describe charmingly geeky computer guys and it’s used to describe the pioneers of classical mechanics. Now, the word “innovator” is thrown about rather a lot these days. At the same time, the world of music lost a genuine innovator. to their pals) lost their pianist and bandleader. Following Esbjörn Svensson’s tragic scuba diving accident in mid-2008, the Esbjörn Svensson Trio (or e.s.t. ![]()
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