{"title":"Bobo Stenson Trio","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Bobo Stenson Trio is a renowned jazz group led by the talented pianist \u003cen\u003eBobo Stenson\u003c\/en\u003e. With their unique blend of musical styles and improvisational skills, they have captivated audiences worldwide. Drawing inspiration from artists such as Ketil Bjørnstad, Marcin Wasilewski Trio, and Tord Gustavsen Trio, the trio has carved out their own distinct sound. Their performances are characterized by intricate melodies, harmonies, and rhythmic patterns that showcase their exceptional musicianship. Fans of jazz music will undoubtedly appreciate the artistry and creativity displayed by the Bobo Stenson Trio.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSimilar to other notable jazz performers like Anat Fort Trio, Arild Andersen, and Misha Alperin, the Bobo Stenson Trio continues to push boundaries in the genre. Collaborations with esteemed musicians such as John Surman and Helge Lien Trio have further enriched their repertoire. The trio's ability to seamlessly fuse different musical influences sets them apart from their contemporaries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eListeners who enjoy the works of Manu Katché or Trygve Seim will find themselves drawn to the mesmerizing compositions of the Bobo Stenson Trio. Their music evokes a range of emotions and transports listeners into a world filled with beauty and complexity. With an extensive discography that includes collaborations with Enrico Rava, Julia Hülsmann Trio, Mathias Eick, Jon Balke, Vassil\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"sphere","title":"Sphere","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Bobo Stenson Trio's ability of covering far-reaching idioms and wide-ranging repertoire within the scope of their personal diction has become both hallmark and custom, inspiring the New York Times to say the pianist \"makes sublime piano-trio records without over-playing. It's pulsating, lumpy with long improvised phrases; it's alive.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharting an equally subtle and idiosyncratic path through originals and melodies derived from various Scandinavian composers, the distinguished group proves of a particularly supple alchemy on \u003ci\u003eSphere\u003c\/i\u003e. Here, a variety of musical tenets coexist in the unique blend, which the Swedish pianist has wrought, developed and refined over decades of collaboration with ECM and Manfred Eicher, who, as Bobo says \"brings out the musicians' best qualities\" and produced the record.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe pianist's cohorts, Anders Jormin on bass and drummer Jon Fält, together accompanying the leader since Cantando in 2008, are more than ideal musical partners to Bobo's soft touch and infinite appetite for interplay. Bobo: \"We don't have a way of playing 'ready-made'. Things crystallise in the moment and we adjust to that. And that's the quintessence. That's the joy of playing together, to never do the same thing twice and to be determined about that.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe album was recorded at the Auditorio Stelio Molo in Lugano, in April 2022.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBobo Stenson: piano\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnders Jormin: double bass\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJon Fält: drums\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ECM","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50454424125771,"sku":"2008511","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50454424715595,"sku":"2008513","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/602448738080_2bafe682_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727183530"},{"product_id":"indicum","title":"Indicum","description":"\u003cp\u003eFour years after Cantando, a new album from the Bobo Stenson Trio - recorded in Lugano in December 2011 - explores a broad arc of material. Wide-ranging repertoire has become a hallmark of Bobo Stenson albums. But it's not just the eclecticism that is striking: Stenson, bassist Anders Jormin and drummer Jon F?lt take these far-flung sources and make an organic, breathing music out of them.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStenson, of course, has long been one of the greats of Scandinavian jazz, and an ECM artist since the first years of the label (his recordings with Jan Garbarek in the 1970s were recently reissued as the boxed set Dansere). But there is a balance of energies in this particular trio - clear-edged lyrical piano playing, rootedness and keen choice of notes from the bass, and detailed, textural drumming - that is especially satisfying.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eOn Indicum can be found free playing (the trio has its own, fresh approach to collective improvising), tunes by Bill Evans (\"Your Story\", offered here as a tribute to Paul Motian, for whom this tune was a favourite) and by George Russell (\"Event VI\" from \"Living Time\", another piece associated with Evans), Danish composer Carl Nielsen's \"Oft Am I Glad\", a Norwegian hymn (in an arrangement by Anders Jormin and folk singer Sinikka Langeland), contemporary composition by Norway's Ola Gjeilo, a Wolf Biermann protest song, Argentine composer Ariel Ram?rez's folkloric \"La Peregrinaci?n\", and more.\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003e\"Few contemporary jazz groups sustain an atmosphere as evocatively as Swedish pianist Stenson's trio, or conjure so many moods across a variety of material\" wrote John Fordham, reviewing Cantando in The Guardian. \"Nothing, from a steaming postbop line to a stroked cymbal-edge or a sitar-like bass phrase, suggests a hint of an accidental sound - yet somehow the music never dims the glow of spontaneity.\"\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePersonnel: Bobo Stenson (piano), Ander Jormin (double-bass), Jon F?lt (drums)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ECM","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50490171097419,"sku":"2017713","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/test_2a24ef13_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727653922"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/collections\/test_982db8e7_thumbnail_4096_ed248ebf-5d76-4df0-afc4-71f291b6628b.jpg?v=1727183498","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/collections\/bobo-stenson-trio.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}