Tord Gustavsen Trio
"The Ground is uniformly beautiful, and the trio's rigorously restrained playing is a complete marvel. I've already saved space at the top of my 2005 list for The Ground."(JazzTimes)
"Changing Places is a beauty ... yearning, tender meditations, occasionally coloured with the palest of the Blues, and the compositions have the quiet, sometimes folky ecstacies of Pat Metheny's or Keith Jarrett's ballads, with a quiet insistence that'll have you humming them for days to come. Gustavsen's music is .. fresh, intuitive and heartfelt. A truly beautiful record that (if there's any justice) will find a place as one of ECM's finest releases of the last few years, and probably a place in your heart too. Gorgeous." (BBC Jazz)
"Piano playing that really shines; and that is bravely relaxed. ... The trio possesses the unique ensemble quality that gives three players a fourth voice. The more I listen, the more I like the un-sweetened beauty of this music. And what a wonderful phrasing Gustavsen displays; in melody stating and in improvisations alike. His solos are on-the-spot-compositions of a standard that only the best musicians are capable of -- the likes of Pat Metheny and Keith Jarrett" (Göteborgsposten - Sweden)
