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e.s.t.

Esbjörn Svensson

19 June, 2008 - 13:52
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As many of you will have heard by now, Swedish pianist Esbjörn Svensson was tragically killed in a scuba diving accident on Saturday June 14th.

Esbjörn’s band e.s.t. were hugely influential in bringing jazz to a wider audience and his untimely death has sent shock waves through the music world. We had the great pleasure of working with him on a number of albums and we will be working on the band’s 12th and now final album Leucocyte, which is due for release in the autumn.

Esbjörn was both a wonderful musician and person who we are proud to have known. We’ll miss him greatly.

GIG- 1 Dec 2007 - 22:30 - Jazz Rhythm Fest

e.s.t.

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e.s.t. is a phenomenon: A jazz trio, which sees itself as a pop band that plays jazz, which broke with the tradition of leader and sidemen in favour of equality within its members, which not only plays jazz venues but also venues usually reserved for rock bands, which uses light effects and fog-machines in their live shows, which gets a whole audience to sing-a-long with jazz-standards such as Thelonius Monk’s “Bemsha Swing”. e.s.t. is a trio that goes far beyond the scope of the usual classic jazz trio.