Leucocyte (album)
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Leucocyte is a jazz album Esbjörn Svensson Trio
released 30 September 2008. As the pianist Esbjörn Svensson
died in June 2008, this is the last album for the band.
said that the album "is refreshing if not always easy or fun listening. E.S.T. could have continued making contemplative or gospel-tinged acoustic jazz in the Jarrett/ECM mode (the brief “Ajar” here is a fine example), but Svensson and his group have been frying bigger fish from the start.
Esbjörn Svensson Trio
Esbjörn Svensson Trio was a Swedish jazz piano trio formed in 1993 consisting of Esbjörn Svensson , Dan Berglund and Magnus Öström . Its music has classical, rock, pop, and techno elements. It lists classical composer Béla Bartók and rock band Radiohead as influences...
released 30 September 2008. As the pianist Esbjörn Svensson
Esbjörn Svensson
Esbjörn Svensson was a jazz pianist and founder of the jazz group Esbjörn Svensson Trio, commonly known as E.S.T...
died in June 2008, this is the last album for the band.
Track listing
- Decade
- Premonition I: Earth
- Premonition II: Contorted
- Jazz
- Still
- Ajar
- Leucocyte I: Ab Initio
- Leucocyte II: Ad Interim
- Leucocyte III: Ad Mortem
- Leucocyte IV: Ad Infinitum
Reception
Allmusic found that "more than any other recording issued by this excellent band, Leucocyte captures the art of music making at the moment of conception." PopMattersPopMatters
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said that the album "is refreshing if not always easy or fun listening. E.S.T. could have continued making contemplative or gospel-tinged acoustic jazz in the Jarrett/ECM mode (the brief “Ajar” here is a fine example), but Svensson and his group have been frying bigger fish from the start.