The first ever live album from Jan Garbarek and certain to be one of the year's most successful jazz releases, 'Dresden' captures a fiery and powerful performance, a fine document of the Norwegian saxophonist's exceptional improvising capacities. It's a magnificent release with which to welcome ECM's 40th anniversary season.
Recorded at the city's Alte Schlachthof in October 2007, it captures his group when it was reformulating its approach - earlier that year bassist Yuri Daniel joined the band when Eberhard Weber was sidelined by illness. The new group tackles its repertoire head-on, with the interaction between Garbarek and drummer Manu Katché at the music's centre. Daniel, a Brazilian bassist living in Portugal, helps to anchor the pulses and rhythm patterns and Rainer Brüninghaus maintains his long-established role as colourist-in-action. Both bassist and keyboardist help to shape a climate in which Garbarek's hymnic, declamatory and intensely melodic solos can find full expression, drawing energy also from Katché's hard-driving drums. As The Guardian wrote of their 2007 London Jazz Festival concert, "The contrast between an intense jamming sound and the songlike simplicity of the tunes is always Garbarek's magic mix, but this version of the band has an exhilarating intensity."
Dresden is eagerly awaited. It's been five years since 'In Praise of Dreams', 11 since 'Rites', 16 since 'Twelve Moons', the last disc identified unequiv-ocally as a Jan Garbarek Group album. The popular repertoire on this 2-CD set includes old favourites drawn from 'Twelve Moons' and 'Legend of the Seven Dreams' eras, new material, intriguing cover versions: L. Shankar's "Paper Nut", Milton Nascimento's "Milagre Dos Peixes", Harald Sæverud's "Rondo Amoroso", and tremendous solos by all parties.
Personnel: Jan Garbarek (soprano and tenor saxophones, silje flute), Rainer Brüninghaus (piano, keyboards), Yuri Daniel (bass), Manu Katché (drums)
Recorded at the city's Alte Schlachthof in October 2007, it captures his group when it was reformulating its approach - earlier that year bassist Yuri Daniel joined the band when Eberhard Weber was sidelined by illness. The new group tackles its repertoire head-on, with the interaction between Garbarek and drummer Manu Katché at the music's centre. Daniel, a Brazilian bassist living in Portugal, helps to anchor the pulses and rhythm patterns and Rainer Brüninghaus maintains his long-established role as colourist-in-action. Both bassist and keyboardist help to shape a climate in which Garbarek's hymnic, declamatory and intensely melodic solos can find full expression, drawing energy also from Katché's hard-driving drums. As The Guardian wrote of their 2007 London Jazz Festival concert, "The contrast between an intense jamming sound and the songlike simplicity of the tunes is always Garbarek's magic mix, but this version of the band has an exhilarating intensity."
Dresden is eagerly awaited. It's been five years since 'In Praise of Dreams', 11 since 'Rites', 16 since 'Twelve Moons', the last disc identified unequiv-ocally as a Jan Garbarek Group album. The popular repertoire on this 2-CD set includes old favourites drawn from 'Twelve Moons' and 'Legend of the Seven Dreams' eras, new material, intriguing cover versions: L. Shankar's "Paper Nut", Milton Nascimento's "Milagre Dos Peixes", Harald Sæverud's "Rondo Amoroso", and tremendous solos by all parties.
Personnel: Jan Garbarek (soprano and tenor saxophones, silje flute), Rainer Brüninghaus (piano, keyboards), Yuri Daniel (bass), Manu Katché (drums)
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Thank you, jjp
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