Tord Gustavsen/Susanna – review

Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonTord Gustavsen, the quiet and neatly gnomic Norwegian pianist and academic, thought he owed his audience a technical observation during the London leg of his quartet's current tour. "This isn't easy for someone like me," he announced in his confiding whisper, following a new piece of uncharacteristically funky soulfulness. "That was a song with a lot of major chords in it." Gustavsen's regulars knew exactly what he meant. Minor-chord pensiveness has often seemed ...

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