Frode Gjerstad Trio + Steve Swell - Bop Stop (2018)

Frode Gjerstad Trio + Steve Swell
Bop Stop
2018 - Clean Feed Records: CF470CD
https://cleanfeed-records.com/product/bop-stop/



* Frode Gjerstad : alto saxophone
* Steve Swell : trombone
* Jon Rune Strøm : double bass
* Paal Nilssen-Love : drums, percussion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frode_Gjerstad
http://www.steveswell.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Rune_Str%C3%B8m
http://www.paalnilssen-love.com/

Recorded live in performance by Frode Gjerstad
at The Bop Stop, Cleveland, Ohio, USA,
on the 17th of September 2017.

Reviews

By Peter Margasak
http://downbeat.com/reviews/detail/bop-stop

The creative music scene in Norway deservedly is celebrated for its depth and
transcendence of generic boundaries, with an ever-growing community of
musicians who’ve developed in the country’s sophisticated music
conservatories. But the music can err on the side of good taste, with
tender-footed musicians hesitant to get down in the trenches of white-knuckled
improvisation. In that regard, alto saxophonist Frode Gjerstad is a paragon, a
veteran free-jazz advocate and freewheeling blower who’s never forsaken his
post-bop routes.

For this live recording, his working trio is joined by garrulous New York
trombonist Steve Swell. On the title track, which erupts from a frenzy of notes
strummed by bassist Jon Rune Strøm, the front line dances over the ferocious
grooves. The musicians move in and out of the action at will, forging a protean
attack, deeply agile and sleek. The pieces all contain moments of
conversational repose and intense fury, and nothing indicates how locked in the
group is like “Post Stop,” where a galloping groove collapses in a hilarious
rip-snort conclusion. Live recordings of free improvisation inevitably lack
some of the heat produced in the moment, but Bop Stop expresses that spark to
great effect.

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By Derek Taylor
http://dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/174439308080/frode-gjerstad-trio-steve-swell-bop-stop

By John Sharpe
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/bop-stop-frode-gjerstad-clean-feed-records-review-by-john-sharpe.php

By Paul Serralheiro
http://www.squidsear.com/cgi-bin/news/newsView.cgi?newsID=2074

By Tim Niland
https://jazzandblues.blogspot.com/2018/03/frode-gjerstad-trio-with-steve-swell.html

By avantscena
https://avantscena.wordpress.com/2018/03/17/frode-gjerstad-trio-steve-bob-stop-clean-feed-2018/

Sebastian Chosiński (pl)
https://esensja.pl/muzyka/recenzje/tekst.html?id=26221

Tor Hammerø (no)
http://torhammero.blogg.no/1530380007_fullstendig_full_frihet.html