Klas Toresson & Filip Ekestubbe Trio - Where Or When (2019)

An easy-to-listen, straightforward, slightly updated swing music is the result of the meeting between Ekestubb's trio and Toresson. You tear off nine evergreens that are played straight on, without adding anything more personally that stands out. Toresson plays cool and controlled with nice tone, where Stan Getz may have been the inspiration. In the title song Where Or When, he is laid back and relaxed emotionally as a Lester Young.

Ekestubbe can largely act as accompanist and cannot stretch as a soloist to the extent he does in the trio form. In OJ 5/2018, I reviewed his record On A Clear Day, where he showed that a freer solo space that was comparatively in his favor.