Swedish jazz pianistMusical artist

Bror Fredrik "Esbjörn" Svensson (16 April 1964 – 14 June 2008) was a Swedish jazz pianist and founder of the jazz group Esbjörn Svensson Trio, commonly known as e.s.t.

Svensson became one of Europe's most successful jazz musicians at the turn of the 21st century before dying, at the age of 44, in a scuba diving accident.

Contents

• 1 Early life and work
• 2 Rise to prominence and death
• 3 Discography
  • 3.1 As leader/co-leader
  • 3.2 As sideman
• 4 See also
• 5 References
• 6 External links

Early life and work

Svensson was introduced to both cl*ical music and jazz very early in life through his mother, a cl*ical pianist, and his father, a jazz enthusiast, and first showed interest in cl*ical music. In his teenage years, he developed an interest in rock music and started a few garage bands with cl*mates, before going back to cl*ical music and finally making his way towards jazz. At the age of 16, Svensson went to a music college, where he took piano lessons. He later studied at the Royal College of Music, Stockholm, for four years.

In 1990, Svensson established his own jazz combo with his childhood friend Magnus Öström on percussion. Both had made their first appearances on stage as sidemen in the Swedish and Danish jazz scene during the 1980s. In 1993, b*ist Dan Berglund joined the duo, and the Esbjörn Svensson Trio was born. The trio released its debut album, When Everyone Has Gone, in 1993, and in the following years established itself in the Nordic jazz scene. Svensson was nominated for Swedish Jazz Musician of the Year in 1995 and 1996.

Rise to prominence and death

The trio's international breakthrough came with their 1999 album From Gagarin’s Point Of View, their first album to be released outside Scandinavia. With the release of their albums Good Morning Susie Soho (2000) and Strange Place for Snow (2002), the trio drew the attention of United States audiences. In 2002, they toured Europe, the U.S. and *an over 9 months. Their subsequent albums, Seven Days of Falling (2003), Viati* (2005), and Tuesday Wonderland (2006), were equally well received by critics and resulted in several music industry award nominations as well as making the jazz and pop charts.

e.s.t. was the first European jazz combo to make the front page of the American jazz magazine DownBeat (May 2006 issue). Their last live album, e.s.t. Live in Hamburg, a recording of their fall 2006 concert in Hamburg, Germany, as part of the Tuesday Wonderland Tour, was released in November 2007. Before Svensson's death, the trio had already finished the work for what became their album "Leucocyte", which was posthumously released in September 2008. The music to the album was recorded during a 9-hour jam at 301 studios in Sydney and in 2012 another album was released with music from that same recording en*led 301. e.s.t.'s last performance took place in Moscow, Russia, at the Tchaikovsky Hall, on 30 May 2008. In addition to his work with e.s.t., Svensson recorded albums with Nils Landgren, Lina Nyberg and Viktoria Tolstoy.

On 14 June 2008, Svensson went missing during a scuba diving session on Ingarö outside Stockholm, Sweden. His diving companions, including an instructor and his then 14-year-old son, eventually found him lying unconscious on the seabed. Having sustained serious injuries, he was rushed to Karolinska University Hospital by helicopter, but could not be saved. He was 44 years old, married and the father of two sons.

Discography

As leader/co-leader

Studio albums

• When Everyone Has Gone (1993) Dragon
• Winter in Venice (1997) Superstudio GUL
• EST plays Monk (1996) Superstudio GUL
• From Gagarin's Point of View (1999) Superstudio GUL
• Good Morning Susie Soho (2000) Superstudio GUL
• Strange Place for Snow (2002) Superstudio GUL
• Seven Days of Falling (2003) Superstudio GUL
• Viati* (2005) Spamboolimbo
• Tuesday Wonderland (2006, Recorded and mixed by Åke Linton at Bohus Sound Recording Studios, Gothenburg, Sweden, in March 2006)
• Leucocyte (2008, recorded by Åke Linton at Studios 301, Sydney, Australia)
• 301 (2012, recorded in January 2007 at Studios 301, Sydney, Australia) ACT

Live albums

• E.S.T. Live '95 (1995, released in Sweden as Mr. & Mrs. Handkerchief) ACT Music + Vision
• Live in Stockholm (2003) DVD, recorded 10 December 2000 – including videos and an interview
• Live in Hamburg (2007, recorded 22 November 2006)
• E.S.T. Live in London (2018, recorded 20 May 2005)

Compilation albums

• Somewhere Else Before (U.S. compilation from From Gagarin's Point of View and Good Morning Susie Soho, 2001)
• Retrospective - The Very Best of E.S.T. (2009)

Compilation with other artists

• Solo Flights (Solo performances by Steve Dobrogosz (3 tracks), Bobo Stenson (2 tracks), Anders Widmark (5 tracks), Esbjörn Svensson (4 tracks). Scandinavian Songs Music Group, 1997)

As sideman

With L*e Lindgren

• To My Friends (Dragon, 1992)

With Lina Nyberg

• Close (Prophone Records, 1993)

With Nils Landgren

• Swedish Folk Modern (ACT Music, 1998)
• Layers of Light (ACT Music, 2004)

See also

• :Jazz portal
• :Sweden portal

References

External links

• Obituary in The Guardian
• Obituary in The Daily Telegraph
• Photos of Esbjörn Svensson Trio by Luca D'Agostino, 2006
• Photos of Esbjörn Svensson Trio by Emre Boyar, 2005
• Esbjorn Svensson Trio - Jazzwoche Burghausen Live (2004) on YouTube

Diving
equipment
manufacturers

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• Aqua Lung America
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• DESCO
• Dive Xtras
• Divex
• Diving Unlimited International
• Drägerwerk
• Fenzy
• Maurice Fernez
• Technisub
• Oscar Gugen
• Heinke
• HeinrichsWeikamp
• Johnson Outdoors
• Mares
• Morse Diving
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• Oceanic Worldwide
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• Shearwater Research
• Siebe Gorman
• Submarine Products
• Suunto

Remotely operated
underwater vehicles

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• ROV PHOCA
• Scorpio ROV
• Sea Dragon-cl* ROV
• Seabed tractor
• Seafox drone
• Seahorse ROUV
• SeaPerch
• SJT-cl* ROUV
• T1200 Trenching Unit
• VideoRay UROVs

Safety equipment

• Diver down flag
• Diving shot
• ENOS Rescue-System
• Hyperbaric lifeboat
• Hyperbaric stretcher
• Jackstay
• Jonline
• Reserve gas supply

General

• Diving spread
  • Air spread
  • Saturation spread
• Hot water system
• Sonar
  • Underwater acoustic positioning system
  • Underwater acoustic communication

Underwater
work

• Commercial offs* diving
• Dive leader
• Diver training
  • Recreational diver training
• Hazmat diving
• Hyperbaric welding
• Media diving
• Nondestructive testing
• Pearl hunting
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• Underwater search and recovery
  • Underwater searches
• Underwater videography

Diving
contractors

• COMEX
• Helix Energy Solutions Group
• International Marine Contractors *ociation

Tools and
equipment

• Abrasive waterjet
• Airlift
• Baited remote underwater video
• In-water surface cleaning
  • Brush cart
  • Cavitation cleaning
  • Pressure washing
  • Pigging
• Lifting bag
• Remotely operated underwater vehicle
• Thermal lance
• Tremie
• Water jetting

Underwater
weapons

• Limpet mine
• Speargun
  • Hawaiian sling
  • Polespear

Diving
procedures

• Ascending and descending
  • Emergency ascent
• Boat diving
  • Canoe and kayak diving
• Buddy diving
  • buddy check
• Decompression
  • Decompression practice
  • Pyle stop
  • Ratio decompression
• Dive briefing
• Dive log
• Dive planning
  • Rule of thirds
  • Scuba gas planning
• Diver communications
  • Diving hand signals
  • Diving line signals
  • Diver voice communications
• Diver rescue
• Diver training
• Doing It Right
• Drift diving
• Gas blending for scuba diving
• Night diving
• Rebreather diving
• Solo diving
• Water safety

Risk
management

• Checklist
• Hazard identification and risk *essment
  • Hazard *ysis
  • Job safety *ysis
  • Risk *essment
• Risk control
  • Hierarchy of hazard controls
• Incident pit
• Lockout–tagout
• Permit To Work
• Redundancy
• Safety data sheet
• Situation awareness

Immersion
related

• Asphyxia
• Drowning
• Hypothermia
• Immersion diuresis
• Instinctive drowning response
• Laryngospasm
• Salt water aspiration syndrome
• Swimming-induced pulmonary edema

Treatment

• Demand valve oxygen therapy
• First aid
• Hyperbaric medicine
• Hyperbaric treatment schedules
• In-water recompression
• Oxygen therapy
• Therapeutic recompression

Personnel

• Diving Medical Examiner
• Diving Medical Prac*ioner
• Diving Medical Technician
• Hyperbaric nursing

Screening

• Atrial septal defect
• Effects of drugs on fitness to dive
• Fitness to dive
• Psychological fitness to dive

ResearchMilitary and
covert operations

• Raid on Alexandria (1941)
• Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior

Scientific projects

• 1992 cageless shark-diving expedition
• Mission 31

IncidentsRecreational
scuba
certification
levelsDiver training
certification
and registration
organisations

• European Underwater Federation (EUF)
• International Diving Regulators and Certifiers Forum (IDRCF)
• International Diving Schools *ociation (IDSA)
• International Marine Contractors *ociation (IMCA)
• List of diver certification organizations
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
• Nautical Archaeology Society
• Universal Referral Program
• World Recreational Scuba Training Council (WRSTC)

Military diver
training centres

• Defence Diving School
• Navy Diving Salvage and Training Center
• Underwater Escape Training Unit

Military diver
training courses

• United States Marine Corps Combatant Diver Course

Diving
physiology

• Artificial gills
• Cold shock response
• Diving reflex
• Equivalent narcotic depth
• Lipid
• Maximum operating depth
• Metabolism
• Physiological response to water immersion
• Tissue
• Underwater vision

Diving
environmentSpecial
interest
groups

• Artificial Reef Society of British Columbia
• CMAS Europe
• Coral Reef Alliance
• Diving Equipment and Marketing *ociation
• Divers Alert Network
• Green Fins
• Finger Lakes Underwater Preserve *ociation
• Historical Diving Society
• Karst Underwater Research
• Nautical Archaeology Program
• Nautical Archaeology Society
• Naval Air Command Sub Aqua Club
• Project AWARE
• Reef Check
• Reef Life Survey
• Rubicon Foundation
• Save Ontario Shipwrecks
• SeaKeys
• Sea Research Society
• Society for Underwater Historical Research
• Society for Underwater Technology
• Underwater Archaeology Branch, Naval History & Heritage Command

Submarine escape
and rescue

• Escape trunk
• International Submarine Escape and Rescue Liaison Office
• McCann Rescue Chamber
• Submarine Escape and Rescue system (Royal Swedish Navy)
• Submarine escape training facility
• Submarine Escape Training Facility (Australia)
• Submarine rescue ship

Neutral buoyancy
facilities for
Astronaut training

• Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory
• Neutral buoyancy pool
• Neutral buoyancy simulation as a training aid
• Neutral Buoyancy Simulator
• Space Systems Laboratory
• Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center

Other

• Nautilus Productions
• Helicopter Aircrew Breathing Device

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