Following the very sad death of Swedish pianist Esbjorn Svensson in a diving accident nearly a year ago, his partners, bassist Dan Berglund and drummer Magnus Ostrom, decided that the one thing they couldn’t do was form another trio with a new pianist.

That meant going different ways, and now we hear Berglund has a new band, an album on the way and a worldwide tour to follow.

The band will be a quartet with Johan Lindstroem on guitar, Martin Heteros on piano and Magnus Persson on drums. They are all old friends from the pre-E.S.T. days and have pop experience as well as jazz leanings.

They are in the studio at the moment recording their own compositions for an album on the German ACT label, the same one E.S.T. stuck with throughout their career, and it is due for release in January 2010.

The Dan Berglund band will then go on tour around the world, the UK leg of which is likely to be between 12 and 31 March 2010.