Leucocyte (album) explained

Leucocyte
Type:studio
Artist:Esbjörn Svensson Trio
Border:yes
Released:30 September 2008
Recorded:January 17–18, 2007
Genre:Jazz
Length:74:38
Label:ACT Music
Chronology:Esbjörn Svensson Trio
Prev Title:Viaticum
Prev Year:2005
Next Title:301
Next Year:2012

Leucocyte is a posthumous jazz album that Esbjörn Svensson Trio released on 30 September 2008 after pianist Esbjörn Svensson had died in June 2008.

Track listing

  1. Decade
  2. Premonition I: Earth
  3. Premonition II: Contorted
  4. Jazz
  5. Still
  6. Ajar
  7. Leucocyte I: Ab Initio
  8. Leucocyte II: Ad Interim
  9. Leucocyte III: Ad Mortem
  10. Leucocyte IV: Ad Infinitum

Reception

Allmusic found that "more than any other recording issued by this excellent band, Leucocyte captures the art of music making at the moment of conception."[1] PopMatters said that the album "is refreshing if not always easy or fun listening. E.S.T. could have continued making contemplative or gospel-tinged acoustic jazz in the Jarrett/ECM mode (the brief “Ajar” here is a fine example), but Svensson and his group have been frying bigger fish from the start."[2]

Charts

Year-end charts

References

  1. Jurek, Thom [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r1434024/review|pure_url=yes}} "Review"]. Allmusic. (accessed 7 January 2009)
  2. Layman, Will (8 December 2008), "Leucocyte". PopMatters.com (accessed 7 January 2008)
  3. Web site: Årslista Album – År 2008. Sverigetopplistan. Swedish. 19 July 2020.