Frode Gjerstad Trio with Steve Swell
media release: Presented by BlueStem Jazz. $20.
FRODE GJERSTAD - sax, clarinet
STEVE SWELL - trombone
JON RUNE STROM - double bass
PAAL NILSSEN-LOVE - drums
$20
The Frode Gjerstad Trio had its debut concert at the Blow Up festival in Oslo, Norway in summer 2011. Since then they’ve released seven records on labels including PNL and Clean Feed, and toured all over the world, including Norway, North and South America, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.
The trio's music is free improvised and has its roots in the free-jazz tradition. With a high level of energy but with strong dynamics and rapid contrasts, the trio has developed a sound of it´s own and has it´s strength from many years of experience as a working group.
The backbone of this band is the longtime relationship between friends and neighbors Gjerstad and PNL. The younger drummer grew up playing in the older reedists' bands, and the two have worked together since 1992 in countless projects, developing a rapport that’s beyond deep, with almost thirty records and countless concerts together over the last thirty years.
The band is joined here by New York trombonist Steve Swell, a collaboration that began in 2017 and has continued to this day. Swell’s contributions to the band have led to a broader pallet of sounds that bring out new contributions and approaches from each band member.
Swell and Gjerstad have collaborated in various ad hoc groups in New York over the years and it was time to get on the road together and explore music and social life forreal! Steve really opened up the music and took the band to new territories. The palate of sounds and playing broadened and brought out new qualities of each member. No doubt is this a group that benefits from live playing and intensively touring. The quartet has since 2017 done tours in the North America and concerts in Europe and Norway. One CD is out on Clean Feed:
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