The Well

2012 release from the Norwegian pianist and his quartet. The Well is a very unified and coherent album, although the songs were written individually and of pieces written as a commission for the Cheltenham Jazz Festival in England 2011 and pieces for the Oslo International Church Music Festival 2011. Tord had originally thought that they would do maybe a bit more of the internal duo or trio playing inside the quartet, but it happened that the overall quartet energy was so good that they just kept playing. Now apart from two trio tunes the rest of the album is in full quartet.