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(JazzPlanet) (E S T ) Esbjorn Svensson - Plays Monk (Eac Flac Cue) UF TNT
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Artist Esbjorn Svensson Trio
Title: Plays Monk
Source: Original CDDA
Recorded: 1996
Year Of Release: 2000
Record Label: Act Music+ Vision
Genre: Jazz
Style: Post-Bop Contemporary Jazz
Number of Discs 1
Size Torrent: 274 Mb
Artwork included
Star Rating ***** Five stars
Extractor: EAC 0.99 prebeta 4
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No
Codec: Flac 1.2.1; Level 8
Single File.flac, Eac.log,
File.cue Multiple wav file with Gaps (Noncompliant)
Accurately ripped (confidence 39)
listen to sample
http://www.amazon.com/gp/recsradio/radio/B0016OMFPW/ref=pd_krex_dp_a
Track listing:
1 I Mean You 6:47
2 Criss Cross 5:49
3 Round Midnight 6:14
4 Bemsha Swing 7:22
5 Rhythm-A-Ning 4:04
6 In Walked Bud 6:40
7 Little Rootie Tootie 4:05
8 Eronel 5:00
9 Evidence 5:06
10 Crepuscle with Nellie 6:41
Personnel:
Esbjorn Svensson: piano
Dan Berglund: doublebass
Magnus Ostrom: drums
preview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYYoA9FvQ8k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vCwO3jXq1Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH20hpJw2uE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdz2sJGzQAQ
Biography
Esbjörn Svensson Trio (or e.s.t.) was a Swedish jazz piano trio formed in 1993 consisting of Esbjörn Svensson (piano), Dan Berglund (double bass) and Magnus Öström (drums). Its music has classical, rock, pop, and techno elements. It lists classical composer Béla Bartók and rock band Radiohead as influences. Its style involves traditional jazz and the use of electronic effects and multitrack recording.[1]
e.s.t. was renowned for its vibrant style, often playing in rock venues to young crowds. It achieved great commercial success and critical acclaim throughout Europe. Its 1999 release From Gagarin's Point of View started its international breakthrough, being the first e.s.t. album to be released outside of Scandinavia through the German label ACT.
Svensson died in a scuba diving accident on 14 June 2008.
In 1995 and 1996, Svensson was awarded Swedish Jazz Musician of the Year and 1998 Songwriter of the Year, and the 1997 release Winter in Venice (consisting mainly of original material) was awarded the Swedish Grammy. Strange Place For Snow, e.s.t.'s 2002 release earned numerous awards including the Jahrespreis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik (from the German Phonoacademy), the German Jazz Award, Choc de l'année (Jazzman, France), the Victoire du Jazz – the French Grammy – as best international act and also the Revelation of the Festival award, a special award from Midem. In December 2004, e.s.t. was awarded the Hans Koller prize as European Artist of the Year.
preview
The overall impression I have is that this might just be the worst recording I own. Svensson improvises in a very predictable fashion through running linearly up and down scales, or patterns. There is no melodic development of any sort, neither does any of his solos display a sense of direction, a coherence. He keeps playing the same licks and even the licks are no good because they vary so little in their direction, intervals, or rhythms. As for the rhyhtm section, they display no dynamics of any kind - they might as well have been tape recorded. In fact, except for the melodies, i.e., for the duration of his solos, it sounds as if Svensson is playing over one of those Jamey Aebersold play-a-longs; there's no interaction to speak of. To give them their due, the melodies are played quite nicely and they have employed a number of different, straight 4/4, grooves instead of the usual swing rhyhtms, and some of them do come out nicely. Their novelty, though, barely carries them through the head before fading away. "I Mean You" and "Round Midnight" feature string arrangements - they are not breathtaking but considering the overall quality of the playing here, they could hardly be called bad or out of place. Lastly, none of the solos draw melodically or otherwise from Monk's melodies - personal as this is, I always enjoy the playing more when there are cues, preferably subtle, to the tune. Some short notes about the tunes follow.
1) I Mean You - Starts with a nice mid-tempo straight groove and again, I like the way he plays the melody. The solo goes on a bit too long for its own good.
2) Criss Cross - T find Criss-Cross to be one of the more difficult Monk tunes to improvise on since the melody does not offer as much material as most of his other tunes. Not surprisingly, Svensson sounds completely clueless playing one lick after another with no connection whatsoever.
3) Round Midnight - One tune where Svensson does not do a good job of handling the melody. Oh and there's no soloing here - well perhaps for about 30 secs or so.
4) Bemsha Swing - A nice straight groove with a catchy bass-vamp with a couple of minutes of soloing displaying no individuality or meldoic development of any kind.
5) Rhythm-A-Ning - This is played in a fast-ish swing. Nothing memorable.
6) In Walked Bud - Mid-swing and this one just goes on and on without any point - it's as if the guys were bored and just soundchekcing or something but left the tape rolling.
7) Little Rootie Tootie
8) Eronel - taken as a ballad, and after 2 minutes I had to check how long the track would last, a fiver and listened through just to see if anything interest might happen, no chance in ...
9) Evidence - up-tempo swing, this is my favorite - the same pedal-point lick appears about half-a-dozen times
10) Crepuscule with Nellie - ballad
I think we must be thankful that EST seems to have given up trying to improvise (see their latest album) and stuck to something they do better (doing worse would be quite challenging) which is playing groovy tunes with nice-catchy melodies and bass vamps - nothing wrong with that so long as they don't try to do an album of Herbie Nichols tunes any time soon. I'm not joking, Svensson sounds no better than any run-of-the-mill jazz pianist you can grab off the street and the rhythm section just will not respond to whatever he does or to each other so you have the same groove with the same dynamics throughout the tunes. Oh and if I recall correctly, about half of the tunes feature a bass solo - my best guess is that it filled up space well so what the heck.
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FILE LIST
Filename
Size
01 - Esbjorn Svensson Trio - I Mean You.flac
32 MB
02 - Esbjorn Svensson Trio - Criss Cross.flac
30.2 MB
03 - Esbjorn Svensson Trio - 'Round Midnight.flac
24.4 MB
04 - Esbjorn Svensson Trio - Bemsha Swing.flac
39.5 MB
05 - Esbjorn Svensson Trio - Rhythm-A-Ning.flac
22.6 MB
06 - Esbjorn Svensson Trio - In Walked Bud.flac
27.7 MB
07 - Esbjorn Svensson Trio - Little Rootie Tootie.flac
16.8 MB
08 - Esbjorn Svensson Trio - Eronel.flac
20.2 MB
09 - Esbjorn Svensson Trio - Evidence.flac
28.2 MB
10 - Esbjorn Svensson Trio - Crepscule With Nellie.flac
