Jan Garbarek Quartet - Afric Pepperbird

Cat. no: 4505317
Format: LP Luminessence Series - Audiophile Vinyl Edition
Barcode: 602445053179
Release Date: 01 Mar 2024
Genre: Jazz

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Recorded in Oslo in September 1970, Afric Pepperbird was released on New Year's Day in 1971. Half a century later, it still conveys the freshness and excitement of discoveries being made. The album signalled the arrival of four

Norwegian improvisers - Jan Garbarek, Terje Rypdal, Arild Andersen and Jon Christensen - at the fledgling ECM label. It was the start of a lifelong association with each of the musicians, whose influence was soon to reach far beyond the borders of their homeland.

In extended passages on Afric Pepperbird, with Christensen and Andersen stretching out, it's quite often Rypdal effectively holding the centre with taut chords. Everybody is roaring here, with Garbarek deep into his free jazz vocabulary. "Garbarek should be heard," wrote reviewer Joe Klee in DownBeat. "I would venture that not since Django Reinhardt has there been a European jazz musician so original and forward-looking as this young Norwegian."

Jan Garbarek: saxophones Terje Rypdal: guitar
Arild Andersen: bass Jon Christensen: drums

Tracks: Scarabee / Mah- Jong / Beast Of Kommodo / Blow Away Zone / MYB / Concentus / Afric Pepperbird / Blupp

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