ES Trio met the French pianist and arranger Antoine Herve at a jazz-festival i Tbilisi, Georgia in the fall of 2002. In 2003 he was invited to Falkenberg Jazz Festival where he was a great success. Antoine has performed/recorded with a.o. Dee Dee Bridgewater, Gil Evans, Quincy Jones, Peter Erskine, Chet Baker, Michel Portal, Markus Stockhausen a.s.o. In September 2004 this group went into studio for a new record and they also performed some concerts in Sweden and Paris for enthusiastic audiences. The CD was made for the Japanese label "Spice of Life" and was released in Japan in March 2005. For a period it was in 3rd place at HMV Japan bestseller list! In January 2005 a second CD was recorded with this constellation plus the phenomenal female vocalist Linda Pettersson.