Esbjorn Svensson Trio - Leucocyte 2008

Leucocyte is a jazz album Esbjörn Svensson Trio released 30 September 2008. As the pianist Esbjörn Svensson died in June 2008, this is the last album for the band.
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. 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.
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Leucocytes, white blood cells, are a part of the human immune system that protect the body against foreign pathogens and infections. They must periodically renew themselves to continue their work.

For e.s.t., spontaneous jam sessions were the way to renewal. They would often rent a local recording studio for a couple of days during their tours and then start to jam. They did this without any pre-composed material. The musicians reacted freely to each other and let themselves be totally carried by the flow of ideas and musical to and fro. The players needed this freedom in order to explore new musical regions, or as Esbjörn Svensson always formulated it, to follow the music. In the past, many of the trio