(ECM, Contemporary Jazz) [WEB] Tord Gustavsen Quartet (Tore Brunborg, Mats Eilertsen, Jarle Vespestad) - Extended Circle - 2014, FLAC (tracks), lossless

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The sixth ECM album from Tord Gustavsen, recorded in Oslo in June 2013, quietly but most assuredly takes the Norwegian pianist’s music to the next stage of its development. Gustvasen’s quartet with Tore Brunborg, Mats Eilertsen and long-term associate Jarle Vespestad has matured into a group whose interactions draw strength from restraint, patiently building the music toward its climaxes. Here are new gospel-tinged pieces and ballads from Tord’s pen, gentle and luminescent group improvisations, and an ecstatic interpretation of the Norwegian traditional “Eg Veit I Himmerik Ei Borg” (“I Know A Castle In Heaven”).

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Norwegian pianist Tord Gustavsen's quartet sounded discreetly funkier than formerly on their 2012 album, The Well, and another veil of that discretion is peeled off with Extended Circles – a delicious collage of hypnotic grooving, softly stroked gospel themes, and perhaps more gloves-off jazz piano from the leader than on all five of his previous ECM albums. The short opener, Right There, is a classic Gustavsen piano theme of gently soulful enquiries. Then saxophonist Tore Brunborg fuels an intense account of the traditional Norwegian hymn Eg Veit I Himmerik Ei Borg, built on Jarle Vespestad's snare-drum patterns and swelling to a warbling incantation. The Gift is an episode of eerily slow jazz balladeering, Staying There a gripping passage of snorty tenor-sax over a seamless Jarrett-like thunder, but there's also plenty of evidence – such as the static yet vibrant Glow – that Gustavsen's persuasive fragility is still intact. (John Fordham, The Guardian)

Tord Gustavsen - piano
Tore Brunborg - tenor saxophone
Mats Eilertsen - double bass
Jarle Vespestad - drums