Tord Gustavsen: The Well – review

(ECM)When the popular Norwegian jazz pianist Tord Gustavsen expanded his regular trio to a quartet, adding atmospheric saxophonist Tore Brunborg for the album Restored Returned, he found his perfect band. The Well (which joins new material commissioned for last year's Cheltenham Jazz festival and Oslo's 2011 International Church Music festival) takes that group's development into more structurally intricate territory by Gustavsen's standards, but his signature ingredients of low-key gospel play...

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