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SHEPPARD, BENITA
& ROCHFORD
"Trio Libero"

CD
Cat No. 2786630

TORD GUSTAVSEN QUARTET
"The Well"

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Cat No. 2785896

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Track Listing:
Libertino / Slip Duty / I'm Always Chasing Rainbows / Spacewalk Part 1 / Dia da Liberdade / Land of Nod / The Unconditional Secret / Ishidatami / Skin/Kaa / Spacewalk Part 2 / Whereveryougoigotoo / Lots of Stairs / When We Live On The Stars...

Personnel:

Andy Sheppard (tenor and soprano saxophones), Michel Benita (double-bass), Sebastian Rochford (drums)

UK saxophonist Andy Sheppard’s second ECM album introduces his freely lyrical new trio with Michel Benita and Sebastian Rochford. All three players share a sense of stylistic open-mindedness. Drummer Rochford is one of the young players changing perceptions of British jazz with bands Polar Bear and Acoustic Ladyland, while Algiers-born French bassist Benita, who cites Charlie Haden and Scott LaFaro as influences, has played with Archie Shepp, Dewey Redman, Lee Konitz and in the ELB trio with Nguyên Lê and Peter Erskine.

Repertoire here includes originals by Sheppard, Benita and Rochford, plus group improvisations and the standard ‘I’m Always Chasing Rainbows’. In all contexts, interaction is highly creative, as Benita and Rochford respond perceptively to Sheppard’s melodically and rhythmically inventive lines. Although Sheppard set up a residency for the trio at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh early in 2009, to explore the group’s creative potential and to develop repertoire, this debut album was not recorded until July 2011 at Auditorio Radiotelevisione Svizzera, Lugano.

While Andy Sheppard has recorded extensively with Carla Bley for the ECM-distributed WATT label, he recorded his first ECM leader date in 2008. Movements In Colour (179 5042), featuring an international line-up with John Parricelli and Eivind Aarset on guitars, Arild Andersen on bass, and Kuljit Bhamra on tabla, was acclaimed by the press and became a bestseller in Britain.

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Track Listing:
Prelude / Playing / Suite / Communion / Circling / Glasgow Intro / On Every Corner / The Well / Communion, var. / Intuition / Inside


Personnel:
Tord Gustavsen (piano), Tore Brunborg (tenor saxophone), Mats Eilertsen (double-bass), Jarle Vespestad (drums)

Two years after the album Restored, Returned introduced this line-up and with extensive touring behind them, on The Well the four musicians of the Tord Gustavsen Quartet really blossom as a band in a programme of new tunes by the Norwegian pianist. Sax player Tore Brunborg is given an important voice here, his melodic lines combining bluesy sonority and Nordic cry. Gently but effectively propelled by the subtle pulses of drummer Jarle Vespestad and bassist Mats Eilertsen, Gustavsen’s gospel-tinged, unhurried piano playing displays a characteristic warmth and tenderness.

Tord Gustavsen’s ideas for The Well began right after the release of Restored, Returned at the end of 2009. “It developed very gradually, the repertoire kept adding new aspects slowly. In the course of these years I also had two commissions to work on, which turned out to fit very naturally in the material for the album. So even though I feel that The Well has become a very unified and coherent album, it still is a mixture of songs written individually and of pieces written as a commission for the 2011 Cheltenham Jazz Festival and pieces for the Oslo International Church Music Festival.”

Tord Gustavsen has been one of ECM’s biggest selling artists over the past decade. Tord’s debut CD Changing Places (0163972), the first of three trio albums with Jarle Vespestad on drums and the late Harald Johnsen on bass, immediately created a huge international audience for his music, attracted by its sublime beauty, his hummable melodies, and the seamless interplay of the musicians. The Ground (4761938) and Being There (1723517) were even more successful. Restored, Returned (1798987) added the blues-inflected voice of Kristin Asbjørnsen on Tord’s settings of the poetry of W.H. Auden.

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