Spring_Tour_(album)
Spring Tour (album)
1995 live album by Marilyn Crispell, Anders Jormin, and Raymond Strid
Spring Tour is a live album by pianist Marilyn Crispell, bassist Anders Jormin, and drummer Raymond Strid. It was recorded at Club Village in Västerås, Sweden and Club Fasching in Stockholm, Sweden in March 1994, and was released in 1995 by Alice Musik Produktion.[1][2]
In an interview, Crispell recalled hearing Jormin for the first time, and the impact it had on her:
"In November 1992, I was at a festival in Stockholm where I heard a Swedish bass player—his name is Anders Jormin—and something just clicked. I said, 'This is someone I can go in both directions with. You know, I can go up to Sweden and safely explore this lyrical side of myself, away from where people know me and will make judgments'... I was nervous about it because I had such a reputation for being a Cecil Taylor clone in a sense, you know. So I wanted a safe space to do my thing, away from the prying eyes of whoever. It was very scary at first because, for one thing, I was kind of learning it—it was so new—and I wasn't that good at it at first. And also, I admit, because I was worried about what people would think. I'm trying to be less worried about what people will think in spite of my desire to express myself unapologetically at all times. But it was somewhere I wanted to go."[3]