(ACT) Eight years after the scuba-diving accident that killed Swedish pianist Esbjörn Svensson and stopped Europe’s most successful jazz group in its tracks, this ambitious project, masterminded by arranger-conductor Hans Ek with the participation of E.S.T. bassist Dan Berglund and… Read More ›
(ACT) This is the fourth album from the band E.S.T. double bassist Dan Berglund formed following the death of Esbjörn Svensson. Again the band is a quartet with Martin Hederos on piano, synthesizers and violin, Johan Lindström on guitar, pedal… Read More ›
(Jazzland Recordings 3786601) The keyboard-player Bugge Wesseltoft and the DJ/electronic musician Henrik Schwarz have collaborated as a duo before; now they are joined by former E.S.T. double bassist Dan Berglund and the title says it all. What I have always… Read More ›
(ACT 9558-2) The former E.S.T. double bassist Dan Berglund may be the best known member of this quartet, but by their third album it seems that Johan Lindström is the main architect of the music. Most of the tunes are… Read More ›
301 (ACT 9029-2) The arrival of unreleased music by the Esbjorn Svensson Trio four years after the untimely death of their leader is an unexpected treat, not least because these are no mere outtakes and this is certainly no cynical… Read More ›
I can’t have been paying attention, because is it was a complete and very pleasant surprise to open a padded envelope last night and find inside 301, a CD of new material from e.s.t., the piano trio brought to a… Read More ›
An image which is just as important for the absence at its heart as for the presence of the two musicians. Double bassist Dan Berglund and drummer Magnus Ostrom. It was taken by Garry Corbett when the pair made up… Read More ›
Thread Of Life (ACT 9025-2) The E.S.T. drummer left it a lot longer after the sudden death of pianist Esbjorn Svensson than his bassist colleague Dan Berglund, before bringing out some music under his own name. I get the impression… Read More ›
CBSO Centre, Birmingham UK 30-03-10 The Swedish double bassist Dan Berglund has done a very clever thing. Of course, his former boss, pianist Esbjorn Svensson, prepared the ground. But all credit to Berglund for taking up the baton and running… Read More ›
When Dan Berglund announced he was putting a new band together there was bound to be intense interest. He had been the double bass player in E.S.T., the piano trio that revolutionised this classic jazz format and found a large, new… Read More ›
Dan Berglund’s Tonbruket (ACT 9023-2) The bassist from E.S.T. quite rightly chose not to form another piano trio following the untimely passing of Esbjorn Svensson. But part of the pianist’s legacy is felt in Berglund’s new quartet and that is… Read More ›
e.s.t.: Retrospective: The Very Best Of e.s.t. (ACT 9012-2) It was a death that shocked us all because it was so unexpected, and came at a time when his already impressive trajectory looked set to soar even further. Esbjorn Svensson… Read More ›
Following the very sad death of Swedish pianist Esbjorn Svensson in a diving accident nearly a year ago, his partners, bassist Dan Berglund and drummer Magnus Ostrom, decided that the one thing they couldn’t do was form another trio with… Read More ›
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