Jan Garbarek: Places - CD

ECM Records

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SKU:
ECM1118
UPC:
0042282919526
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Edition:
1x CD
ECM Records Cat#:
ECM1118
Released:
1.9.1978 in Germany
Original Release:
1978 Label ECM Records Cat# 829 195-2
Genre:
Jazz
Artist:
Jan Garbarek
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Recorded in 1977 in Oslo, Places was an important album for Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek, and - with its stellar line-up including Americans Jack DeJohnette and Bill Connors - one that also drew significant attention in the US. “How does Garbarek set up his floating dreamlike moods?” asked Down Beat, and proceeded to itemize components of this “eerie, desolate, bleak” music: “John Taylor plays sustained legato chords, much more like Lutheran church music than, say, Jimmy Smith. The organ provides a backdrop of shifting sonorities…DeJohnette’s playing is airy, concentrating on cymbals, creating shimmering webs of rhythm. Up front is Garbarek, the only real solo voice. He speaks slowly, with attention to detail. He has a fine sense of pitch, so that when he ornaments a note with a bend, a slur or a grace note, it is done precisely, consciously…” The album stands as one of Garbarek’s strongest statements as a player. Reviewing Places in 1978, Don Heckman wrote in High Fidelity that Garbarek was “easily the best sax player to emerge from Europe in the last decade.”

Initially published in August 1978, vinyl is reissued in April 2017 as audiophile pressing taken from the original analog tapes.

 

Tracklist:

1 Reflections 15:04
2 Entering 7:52
3 Going Places 14:11
4 Passing 11:18

Drums – Jack DeJohnette
Guitar – Bill Connors
Organ, Piano – John Taylor
Saxophone [Saxophones], Composed By – Jan Garbarek

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