It had to come at some point and I almost bet my life on the fact that it would happen with the release of their third album … and it did, somewhat. The Tord Gustavsen Trio put out a new album and if you mosey on past those usual “great album …” reviews by people who either get paid to say exactly that or simply aren’t willing to put up the effort to listen to an album more closely before they publish what it is they publish every darn time, you come across quite a few (sometimes guarded) reviews by listeners, both in print and in conversation, who perhaps weren’t too happy with the new album (at first). In short, some people thought it was “boring” or, perhaps less harshly put, “the same procedure as last year.” Continue Reading →