Gustavsen, Tord Quartet / Well, The
| Album: | Well, The | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Gustavsen, Tord Quartet | Added: | Mar 2012 | |
| Label: | Ecm Records | |||
A-File Activity
| Add Date: | 2012-03-10 | Pull Date: | 2012-05-12 | Charts: | Jazz |
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| Week Ending: | May 6 | Apr 29 | Apr 22 | Apr 15 | Apr 8 | Mar 25 | Mar 18 |
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| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Apr 30, 2012: | Jazz Special
The Well, On Every Corner, Circling |
4. | Apr 17, 2012: | Rebop
Playing, Prelude |
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| 2. | Apr 26, 2012: | Love Den
The Well |
5. | Apr 13, 2012: | No Cover, No Minimum
On Every Corner |
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| 3. | Apr 21, 2012: | The Mongrel's Stoop
Playing |
6. | Apr 03, 2012: | Rebop
Playing |
Album Review
Fo
Reviewed 2012-03-04
Reviewed 2012-03-04
TORD GUSTAVSEN QUARTET: The Well
ECM, 2012
MODERN JAZZ – Norwegian pianist’s fifth release with ECM, first in a quartet configuration. His music is gorgeous: spare and emotional with an interesting mix of fragility and strength, gloom and light. The band very tightly integrated and moves as a single entity, and there’s no mistaking that open, echoing ECM production.
All very good. Fo’s Picks: 2, 4, 5, 7, 8
1. 2:48 – classical sound: slow, hushed, melancholy, beautiful
2. 5:35 – middle-eastern feel: very cool drums; exotic piano melody & bass
3. 8:19 – tender, pensive: piano/bass duet sets up deep, aching quartet
4. 4:33 – spacious, open: floats into the unknown, finds inner peace
5. 4:39 – gentle, warm, and folksy: like strolling through fields in summer
6. 1:13 – solo piano: a very slow, fragile spiral
7. 5:12 – melancholy beauty, rather sad but with a stirring sense of resolve
8. 5:48 – relaxed, slides gently forward, rises up in sax solo, but falls back
9. 5:54 – another version of #4, very quiet and atmospheric
10. 4:31 – slow drift: sax and piano caress the melody
11. 4:16 – solo bass into a slow, heavy ballad
[ Fo ] - March 2012
ECM, 2012
MODERN JAZZ – Norwegian pianist’s fifth release with ECM, first in a quartet configuration. His music is gorgeous: spare and emotional with an interesting mix of fragility and strength, gloom and light. The band very tightly integrated and moves as a single entity, and there’s no mistaking that open, echoing ECM production.
All very good. Fo’s Picks: 2, 4, 5, 7, 8
1. 2:48 – classical sound: slow, hushed, melancholy, beautiful
2. 5:35 – middle-eastern feel: very cool drums; exotic piano melody & bass
3. 8:19 – tender, pensive: piano/bass duet sets up deep, aching quartet
4. 4:33 – spacious, open: floats into the unknown, finds inner peace
5. 4:39 – gentle, warm, and folksy: like strolling through fields in summer
6. 1:13 – solo piano: a very slow, fragile spiral
7. 5:12 – melancholy beauty, rather sad but with a stirring sense of resolve
8. 5:48 – relaxed, slides gently forward, rises up in sax solo, but falls back
9. 5:54 – another version of #4, very quiet and atmospheric
10. 4:31 – slow drift: sax and piano caress the melody
11. 4:16 – solo bass into a slow, heavy ballad
[ Fo ] - March 2012
Track Listing
| 1. | Prelude | 6. | Glasgow Intro | |||
| 2. | Playing | 7. | On Every Corner | |||
| 3. | Suite | 8. | The Well | |||
| 4. | Communion | 9. | Communion, Var. | |||
| 5. | Circling | 10. | Intuition | |||
| 11. | Inside | |||||