Spring Tour is a live album by pianist Marilyn Crispell, bassist Anders Jormin, and drummer Raymond Strid.
[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.
"[3] The authors of the Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings awarded the album 4 stars, and stated: "Well, the season seems completely apposite for music as fresh and affirmative as this... Where often Crispell can sound slightly dense and introspective, here she dares to play somewhat more simply and directly.
Strid has a brisk, beery exuberance... which doesn't invite tortured, existential dramatics, while the bassist is quite simply one of the most beautiful stylists currently working on the instrument.
"[4] Critic Tom Hull commented: "all three contribute songs, with Jormin's genteel avant-ambiance already pointing him toward ECM; the pianist obliges by foregoing her pyrotechnics in favor of lighter, subtler abstractions.