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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0028947619383
Label: Ecm Records
Manufacturer: Ecm Records
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Ecm Records
Release Date: 2005-04-05
Studio: Ecm Records
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Customer reviews of The Ground
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Customer Rating: 
Summary: if only there were more stars...
Comment: WITH NO DOUBT IN MY MIND, TORD GUSTAVSEN IS CLEARLY THE BEST TRIO, HE MASTERS DOWN TEMPO JAZZ IN A WAY NOBODY SIMILAR CAN EVEN COME CLOSE.
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Summary: Fabulous
Comment: This is an amazing CD and I would highly recommend. Perfect, relaxing, lovely music.
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Summary: Early Chico Hamilton: Easy to be around
Comment: If you love early Chico records, you will love this. It is restrained, sparse and thoughtful. The Ground is soothing yet interesting music-seamlessly blending in at a dinner party, while standing alone as a singular experience--an hour well spent.
It's hard to find music like this-true and consistent throughout the entire record.
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Summary: Astrological stars
Comment: Other reviewers have articulated appreciation for TG (and the trio)'s work so well. Thank you. This music is soothing, healing and enlightening - simultaneously familiar yet unique. I'll just add for those of an astrological bent that I found it interesting that astrology seems to support TG's aesthetic: with Venus (planet associated with one's sense of beauty and harmony)conjunct Neptune (higher transpersonal octave of Venus) in Scorpio (music as eroticism per TG's words) opposite Saturn (planet associated with ascetic discipline and essential structure of self) in Taurus (a sign associated with music, particularly the voice - metaphor for TG's spare while melodic sensibility). This is certainly an incomplete reading, but an interesting metaphor for the taut balance TG achieves between a freely sensuous, personal, upclose feeling and an austere spacious sensibility.
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Summary: find of a lifetime
Comment: Is it possible that there are other musicians one doesn't know about that are of the importance of Tord G? I shudder to think so, because to think one is missing seminal talents like this guy is unnerving. Is it possible never to hit a wrong note? To never have a lapse of taste or originality? To never play anything remotely cliched? The word unique is thrown around but TG is a close to unique as I've ever heard. No one sounds like him. I've got all three CDs and play them constantly. Saw him in person once and would seriously consider traveling long distnces to see him again. He's absolutely unafraid of space and silence -- so disciplined. As a writer of music he's already at the highest level. I can't begin to imagine his sound in ten years.
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Editorial Reviews:
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The second album by Norwegian pianist and composer Tord Gustavsen is another set of crystalline beauty. Lyrical in both his writing and playing, the music is informed by his Scandinavian homeland's austere landscapes, as well as a wide swath of jazz traditions and gospel influences from his youth (as a teenager Gustavsen was a church organist). The trio's interplay is supple and subtle to the point of the rhythm section sounding like they're actually a part of the piano. The music's gentle propulsion seems to be carried forward equally by all three players. Emotionally resonant, the warmth and clarity of ECM's high production standards captures every nuance -- even lightly struck cymbals resonate with incredible presence. --David Greenberger
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