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There's a particular poignancy behind the title of Magnus Ostrom's first album as a bandleader, Thread of Life. The drummer in E.S.T., the leading jazz group of the Noughties, Ostrom refers to the thread of life as the energy that keeps everything alive but warns that as it is only a thin thread, it can be cut at any minute.
Ostrom knows this only too well. When the news came through in June 2008 that Esbjorn Svensson, the pianist who gave his name to E.S.T. (they were originally called the Esbjorn Svensson Trio), had died in a diving accident off the Stockholm Archipelago, Ostrom felt his own life had stopped.See the full content of this document
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The Ties That Bind
"It was like losing a brother," says Ostrom, who brings his new group to Edinburgh Jazz Festival this weekend. "We'd been friends since we were four years old and ever since we were kids we'd talked about forming a band that would conquer the world. It maybe sounded unlikely that these two boys who lived just across the street from each other...
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