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1 Dolphin Dance (H. Hancock)
2 My Shining Hour (H. Arlen\/J. Mercer)
3 Peace (H. Silver)
4 Come Rain or Come Shine
(H. Arlen\/J. Mercer)
5 I hear a Rhapsody
(D. Gasparre\/G. Fragos\/J.Baker)
6 Moment\u2019s Notice (J. Coltrane)
7 Infant Eyes (W. Shorter)
8 Summer Night (A. Dubin\/H. Warren)
9 Days of wine and Roses (H. Mancini\/J. Mercer)
10 My FavoriteThings (R. Rodgers\/O. Hammerstein)
11 Have You Met Miss Jones (R. Rodgers\/L. Hart)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Total playing time: 62:36<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Ewan Svensson – Yasuhito Mori – Magnus Gran<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Recorded at Studio Lynga, Falkenberg, Sweden, February 18, 19, 2009
Recording, mix and mastering: Lars Hillerstr\u00f6m
Photo: ESM-Prod. Graphic design: Sofia Berry\/Berry Produktion
Produced by Ewan Svensson. Executive Producer: Dragon Records<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Ewan Svensson Trio
\u201cMoments Passed\u201d
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Falkenberg guitarist Ewan Svensson\u2019s first album with only standards was made in Studio Lynga and rhythmically it is more straight-ahead, conventional jazz where space for solos is taken to full advantage. This is one hour\u2019s high-class, modern trio jazz that is both tight and floating and ends with some marvellous solo-guitar playing on \u201cHave You Met Miss Jones?\u201d The ballad \u201cPeace\u201d and \u201cCome Rain Or Come Shine\u201d as a jazz-waltz has been previously recorded by Ewan with Janne Carlsson\u2019s group and I would have appreciated even more successful new interpretations \u2013 as for instance when \u201cMy Favourite Things\u201d and Coltrane\u2019s \u201cMoment\u2019s Notice\u201d are given new life in a free Latin style. Long-time associate, drummer Magnus Gran, is presently a teaching colleague of Ewan\u2019s in Falkenberg and he impresses all the way through with the highpoint being the fast \u201cMy Shining Hour\u201d.
Martin Erlandsson<\/em>\/HN
Ewan Svensson Trio
\u201cMoments Passed\u201d
Ewan Svensson is a guitarist who impresses more and more with each new project. This time, with an excellent rhythm section comprised of Yasuhito Mori on bass and Magnus Gran on drums, he has chosen to interpret eleven more-or-less modern standards and the result is a completely fantastic album. If someone had said to me that this was a CD with Pat Metheny I would have naturally believed it to be true. Not that Ewan Svensson is an imitator but he is of the same high standard as any American superstar you care to mention. Had he been born a little more west than Halland he would without doubt have been a world name.
Magnus Nilsson<\/em>\/ Sm\u00e5landsposten
Tasteful mosaic with beautiful-sounding guitar
Ewan Svensson Trio
Moments Passed
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Ewan Svensson has long been one of Sweden\u2019s most personal guitarists. With bassist Yasuhito Mori and drummer Magnus Gran he can be heard in eleven jazz classics that are mixed into a tasteful mosaic where his beautiful-sounding guitar gives the music intimate warmth and melodic richness. The album is notable for the homogeneity of the group and mutual awareness between each musician, which gives one a feeling of wanting to hear more.
The arrangements have been written by Ewan. He plays completely solo impressively well in \u201cHave You Met Miss Jones?\u201d Otherwise it is the trio all the way where Mori\u2019s reliable bass and Magnus\u2019s imaginative drumming give inspiring assistance. Mori is featured as soloist in, among others, Horace Silver\u2019s \u201cPeace\u201d.
\u201cCome Rain Or Come Shine\u201d is one the album\u2019s highpoints where Ewan demonstrates the high class of his playing after Mori\u2019s well- constructed bass solo. In \u201cI Hear a Rhapsody\u201d the flexibility of the musicians is well to the fore and Ewan\u2019s guitar produces a note-cascade of distinction. Magnus also contributes an outstanding solo. Among the other standards that are given fresh interpretations are \u201cInfant Eyes\u201d and \u201cMoment\u2019s Notice\u201d \u2013 another highspot in the programme. The spiritual playing in \u201cSummer Night\u201d and \u201cDolphin Dance\u201d is also on a high plane. In the super-fast \u201cMy Shining Hour\u201d the trio pulls out all the stops.
If you want to enjoy jazz in a relaxed manner then Moments Passed is a good choice.
G\u00f6ran Olsson\/<\/em>DIG Music Magazine
Ewan Svensson Trio
Moments Passed
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Ewan Svensson\u2019s name is unfortunately sometimes forgotten but he belongs quite definitely to Sweden\u2019s foremost guitar players; technically brilliant and with the enviable capability of being able to deliver solos rich in imagination. He has demonstrated this in, among others, Janne \u201cLoffe\u201d Carlsson\u2019s admirable quartet. And he also demonstrates this in \u201cMoments Passed\u201d, the seventh Dragon CD in his own name, if I have counted correctly.
The CD is an excellent object for studying how to make jazz standards sound up to date and fresh. Svensson can be heard here in a tasteful and close collaboration with Yasuhito Mori, bass, and Magnus Gran, drums. For me personally I particularly like to hear jazz guitar with a slight \u2013 but only slight \u2013 flavour of rock influence and with tendencies of an aggressive attack. Ewan Svensson leans more towards the traditional approach to the guitar and plays with a mild, rounded tone. That does not prevent him of course from also being capable of lighting a fire \u2013 as he does in \u201cI Hear a Rhapsody\u201d and \u201cMy Shining Hour\u201d. Moments Passed is concluded with the leader completely solo in a brilliant version of \u201cHave you Met Miss Jones?\u201d
Joe Pass could not have done it better.
J\u00f6rgen \u00d6stberg\/ <\/em>OJ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1377","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esm-prod.com\/_2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esm-prod.com\/_2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esm-prod.com\/_2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esm-prod.com\/_2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esm-prod.com\/_2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1377"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"http:\/\/esm-prod.com\/_2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1880,"href":"http:\/\/esm-prod.com\/_2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1377\/revisions\/1880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esm-prod.com\/_2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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