By Frode Hermanrud
Published: February 04, 2010, at 4:00
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The Inner Ear / Music operators
I will gladly admit that in my pleasure to finally hear a good and genuine jazz quartet album again,
I squeeze with solid dice. But then trumpeter Tore Johansen next to composing some great melodies really found the tone with bass veteran Steve Swallow, pianist Lars Jansson and drummer Anders Kjellberg. The latter with Harvey Mason's lace and Jarle Vespestad's sense of cunning details.
It starts so playfully and elegantly with Tore Johansen's title cut, while it all ends with Steve Swallow's unlikely gorgeous ballad
Item # 7 a seven-minute-long gem where the musicians' joy of spending some great maid days in a studio in Bodø has really done their best to speed up the musical lyrics. IS is as rare as a traditional jazz album in simple and straightforward quartet format. There are no long, floating trumpets, untidy percussions or other modern fixes. This is just pure jazz, composed and recorded by someone who just wants you well.
( I think this means he liked it)