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  Drinks are cheaper than at Yoshi's SF
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  Easy street parking

2 Goldstar Member Reviews

Jeff G.

Original, full sound courtesy of electronic instruments and rock-like drumming. But thankfully it didn't sound anything like the jazz fusion I've come to dislike. Along with The Bad Plus, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, it might be shape of things to come in jazz!

Written on Jun 23 2011

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Tedalinski

Music very difficult to relate to. I trued. I did appreciate the musicianship especially the drummer.
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Written on Jun 23 2011

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More Information About Dan Berglund's Tonbruket

Website

http://www.yoshis.com/oakland/jazzclub/artist/show/1893

Description

In the aftermath of Esbjörn Svensson's untimely passing in the summer of 2008 his former band-mates Dan Berglund and Magnus Öström had to re-orientate and find a new meaning for their musical lives, as e.s.t. -- the band they had together, and that had become a world sensation during the early years of the new millennium, and was heralded as “Trio of the Decade” by no less than the London Times – had ceased to exist.

Dan Berglund remembered his former colleagues from the Per Texas Johansson band, who he had performed with before he had met Esbjörn Svensson, and he hooked up with Johan Lindström, one of Sweden´s leading steel guitar players. Soon after they started with the first jams in a rehearsal room.

Over the course of the next six months Martin Hederos, pianist of pop outfit Soundtrack of our Lives, and Andreas Werliin (drums) joined the jams and step by step the four individuals formed a real band that began to develop its own repertoire and style.

Tonbruket, the name they gave themselves, is the Swedish expression for a workshop or factory that produces tones. “We really liked the sound of it – and then, our tiny four-men factory also researches and produces. We produce tones that together hopefully result in good music”.

Already during his membership in e.s.t. Dan Berglund was the “rock’n’roller” of the trio, citing Deep Purple, Black Sabbath and Ritchie Blackmore amoung his biggest musical influences. Later he then started adding bands like Radiohead, Royksopp or Wilco to his ‘favourites’ list.

Tonbruket is clearly inspired by those later ones. It also throws a new light on Dan´s importance within e.s.t. as a stylist and also soloist, bringing his strong artistry to the table, and shaping the sound of e.s.t. to something beyond that of a simple jazz trio. Now with his new band he takes this approach further and opens it up to alternative and acoustic rock influences, and for the first time he also appears as a composer of catchy and intricate songs and melodies.

About the Ticket Supplier: Yoshi's Oakland

Yoshi's began in 1973 as a small, North Berkeley sushi bar owned by a trio of struggling students with plenty of dreams. Its founder and namesake, Yoshie Akiba, orphaned during World War II, came to the U.S. to study fine arts, dance and dance therapy. She opened Yoshi's Japanese Restaurant with her two best friends Kaz Kajimura, a journalist and carpenter, and Hiroyuki Hori, a painter and Japanese cook. The original North-Berkeley, 25-seat restaurant quickly became successful and by 1977 the three partners moved to a larger space on Claremont Avenue in Oakland and began introducing live music in their restaurant. Over the next 20 years, Yoshi's built itself into one of the world's most respected jazz venues and won a reputation as the Bay Area's premier location for people who were looking for great food and the best jazz. Yoshi's has hosted legendary jazz greats such as Betty Carter, Max Roach, Dizzy Gillespie, Joe Williams, Diana Krall, Branford Marsalis, McCoy Tyner, Harry Connick Jr. and Oscar Peterson among hundreds of others.

In 1997, Yoshi's was invited by the Port of Oakland to relocate to Jack London Square as part of a plan to revitalize the area. Together with Morimoto Architects, Yoshi's built an award-winning 330-seat jazz club with a state-of-the-art sound system and design. Occupying 17,000 square feet in the heart of Jack London Square, the club is in it's tenth year in that location which has become one of the East Bay's greatest destinations. The restaurant and lounge have a combined capacity of 220. In 1998 Peter Williams was hired as the club's artistic director. Under his leadership, the club has continued to present the finest in jazz music, as well as world music, blues, neo-soul, latin jazz and afro-cuban music. In fall of 2006, Kajimura decided that it was time to elevate the menu to the quality of the jazz by recruiting Executive Chef Shotaro 'Sho' Kamio, one of the Bay Area's top chefs to make the change. Chef Kamio (formerly of Ozumo) brought a whole new generation of modern Japanese cuisine to Yoshi's, which instantly put it on the map as a destination to dine in addition to the best place to hear great live music.