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Tord Gustavsen Trio
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 May 2025 | ||||||
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With "Seeing", Tord Gustavsen opens a new, complex chapter in his series of acclaimed trio recordings, which he began in 2003 with the now classic album Changing Places. The new recording with its compact, concentrated song forms "reflects my personal development, I am getting older and concentrating more and more on the essentials in life and in music", says the Norwegian pianist. With five original compositions, two chorales by Johann Sebastian Bach, a traditional Norwegian hymn and the 19th century English hymn "Nearer My God, to Thee", Tord dives deep into his unmistakable blend of jazz, blues, gospel, Scandinavian folk and church music together with his long-time companion Jarle Vespestad on drums and Steinar Raknes on double bass. "Appreciating the melodies", as Tord puts it, the group's interplay draws strength from restraint and patiently builds the music towards its climaxes, while Gustavsen, a true master of the trio format, shapes the whole with his fine touch and his very special subtle gospel glow.
Program and cast
Tord Gustavsen: piano, electronics
Steinar Raknes : bass, electronics
Jarle Vespestad: drums
PORGY and BESS Jazzclub
Porgy & Bess (actually, Jazz and Music Club Porgy & Bess ) is a jazz club in the Riemergasse 11 in the 1st district of Vienna. The club , founded in 1993 is considered " the most important jazz organizer and trendy meeting point " of the Austrian capital .
The program of Porgy & Bess speaks to a very large audience , about 70,000 guests a year ; is accordingly Jazz " understood very pluralistic ," and the program " even in fringe areas , such as electronic music , contemporary music and world music penetrated . " Many international artists , particularly from the U.S. space , see also Austrian musician here an opportunity to perform . The club also offers the stage for events, such as the award of the Austrian World Music Award.
Musicologist Christian Scheib According to the Porgy & Bess " at the same time essential for the development of the musical ( jazz ) reality of a City" and needs and uses ' plain commonplace as urban space music. " It creates itself " through artistic preferences, acoustic quality , capacity and real capacity, the necessary exclusion of other clubs. " Here, the different areas of the jazz clubs allow - the area in front of the stage with tables, upstairs gallery , a lateral area with a bar at counter - different intense concentration on the concert scene . For Jazzthetik Porgy & Bess is even a " traditional club . "
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