In 1971, Swedish saxophonist Gilbert Holmström formed a group he called Mount Everest with drummer Conny Sjökvist and bassist Kjell Jansson. The combined talents of Holmström, Sjökvist, and Jansson brought together years of experience and improvisational free jazz brilliance. In 1975, the three got together as the Mount Everest Trio and recorded Waves from Albert Ayler for the tiny Levande Improviserad Musik label. The album was a tribute to Ayler, with whom Holmström had studied in New York in the mid-sixties, but it went largely -- and criminally -- unheard. The Trio's melodicism and free-ranging far out-there jazz stunned fans in Sweden, but it didn't make it as far as the U. S.

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