I was absolutely heartbroken to learn, today, that acclaimed Swedish jazz pianist Esbjörn Svensson passed away last weekend at the young age of 44. I was first introduced to the music of the Esbjörn Svensson Trio, also known as EST, in the late 1990s while I was living in Sweden. The album was EST Plays Monk

Regular readers will know of my fondness for BBC Radio 3: it’s as near as English radio gets to a Music For Grown-Ups station. This week’s schedules included two pieces of programming which were outstanding even by Radio 3’s toweringly high standards: * German bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff is ever more prominent, and I’d been wondering what all

Dziś rano usłyszałam w radiu - 44-letni pianista jazzowy ze Szwecji zmarł podczas nurkowania niedaleko Sztokholmu. Więcej informacji na ten temat: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7456031.stm EST to jedna z grup, dzięki którym jazz zaczął zaliczać się do muzyki, której chętnie słucham. Ich album “Seven Days of Falling” znam na pamięć, wielokrotnie umilał mi chłodne zimowe wieczory. I myślę, że nie jestem

There are rare times when the obituary pages stop you dead, as it were. So it was this week with the news of the death of the Swedish jazz pianist Esbjorn Svensson in a diving accident at the age of 44. A few days on, I feel as if there ought to be more of

I often find musicians on the net as I read articles and search for other music related things and bookmark them for later “digestion.” After having seen the amazing Jason Lindner with Now vs. Now during the Burlington Discover Jazz fest, I decided today that I would look up another incredible pianist that I’d found