Two Esbjorn Svensson Trio (EST) albums followed the Swedish pianist's tragic death in a scuba diving accident in June 2008.
Three months after his death at age 44, his record label, ACT, released Leucocyte, recorded in January 2007 in Sydney.
The next year, an anthology entitled Retrospective: The Very Best of EST summarised the previous decade of the band's career, but included no new material.
Both were critically well received. Leucocyte won Sweden's equivalent of the Grammy, and it was widely assumed that nothing further would be heard from one of the few jazz trios to have reached out beyond the jazz audience without compromising the music's integrity.
As it turns out, not so. More music was recorded during the Leucocyte sessions, and ACT released a second album, called 301. The album takes its name from the studio where the music was made.
Leucocyte was widely hailed as a creative peak for the trio, and as evidence that Svensson's career had been cut at the height of his powers.
