Everything that makes trio Acoustic Unity special is featured on the album Elastic Wave ★★★☆☆

Norwegian drummer Gard Nilssen is regarded as one of the most versatile and productive jazz musicians in Europe. He is best known for the Supersonic Orchestra, and is now making his debut as bandleader for ECM, with Acoustic Unity. A trio with Nilssen reed player André Roligheten and double bassist Petter Eldh. Elastic Wave is the fourth album of this trio and everything that makes their music special is featured. The pleasant-sounding melody lines as a basis for improvisation. The dynamic drum patterns of Nilssen and the driving, solid bass work of Eldh are the basis on which Roligheten blows his reeds. All three compose and Eldhs altaret is immediately a tune that will not let you go. But it’s a bit of a shame that the gentlemen don’t take the time for longer improvisations, which most pieces lend themselves so well to. As if ECM asked to keep everything a little short and not to exceed five minutes per composition. Anyway, there is beautiful playing and if Roligheten in The Other Village take the tenor and soprano sax in your mouth at the same time, you spring up anyway.