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Margrete Grarup
Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic V : Lost hero : Tears for Esbjörn
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Reviews (2)
The guardian
d. 25. Feb. 2016
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John Fordham
d. 25. Feb. 2016
"Like Pat Metheny, the late pianist and composer Esbjörn Svensson became one of jazz's rare commercial successes without lowering the bar. He could write instrumental music that sounded sung, and his EST group combined the spontaneity of jazz with the power of rock ... this remains, for the most part, an exciting and sensitively fitting accolade".
LondonJazz news
d. 2. Apr. 2016
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Patrick Hadfield
d. 2. Apr. 2016
"It is nearly eight years since the untimely death of Swedish pianist Esbjörn Svensson. Fellow pianist Iiro Rantala dedicated a track to Svensson on his 2012 release "Lost Heroes", Tears for Esbjörn, and from that track this live project evolved ... The outcome is a remarkable tribute. The CD opens with Rantala's elegiac Tears for Esbjörn, a moving, quiet piece for piano, guitar and bass. Tolstoy's contributions are similarly emotional. When she sings on Love Is Real, "if we meet again, I'll tell you how I feel", it is hard not to be moved. She has a powerful voice, used to great effect".