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Jan Garbarek Group - Dresden 2 CD 2009 (Live)
Artist: Jan Garbarek
Title: Dresden
Audio CD (September 22, 2009)
Original Release Date: 2009
Number of Discs: 2
Label: ECM Records
Format: Live
Genre: Jazz
Style, Modern Creative, Continental Jazz, Spiritual
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Personnel:
Jan Garbarek: Arranger, Composer, Mixing, Norwegian Selje Flute,
Producer, Sax (Soprano), Sax (Tenor)
Rainer Bruninghaus: Keyboards, Piano
Yuri Daniel: Bass, Composer
Manu Katché: Drums
Album´s Tracks:
CD: 1
1. Paper Nut
2. The Tall Tear Trees
3. Heitor
4. Twelve Moons
5. Rondo Amoroso
6. Tao
7. Milagre Dos Peixes
CD 2:
1. There Were Swallows
2. The Reluctant Saxophonist
3. Transformations
4. Once I Dreamt a Tree Upside Down
5. Fugl
6. Maracuja
7. Grooving Out!
8. Nu Bein
9. Voy Cantando.
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biography
Garbarek's sound is one of the hallmarks of the ECM Records label, which has released virtually all of his recordings. His style incorporates a sharp-edged tone, long, keening, sustained notes, and generous use of silence. He began his recording career in the late 1960s, notably featuring on recordings by the American jazz composer George Russell (such as Othello Ballet Suite and Electronic Sonata for Souls Loved by Nature). If he had initially appeared as a devotee of Albert Ayler and Peter Brotzmann, by 1973 he had turned his back on the harsh dissonances of avant-garde jazz, retaining only his tone from his previous approach.
Garbarek gained wider recognition through his work with pianist Keith Jarrett's European Quartet which released the albums Belonging (1974), My Song (1977) and the live recordings Personal Mountains (1979), and Nude Ants (1979). He was also a featured soloist on Jarrett's orchestral works Luminessence (1974) and Arbour Zena (1975)
As a composer, Garbarek tends to draw heavily from Scandinavian folk melodies, a legacy of his Ayler influence. He is also a pioneer of ambient jazz composition, most notably on his 1976 album Dis a collaboration with guitarist Ralph Towner that featured the distinctive sound of a wind harp on several tracks. This textural approach, which rejects traditional notions of thematic improvisation (best exemplified by Sonny Rollins) in favour of a style described by critics Richard Cook and Brian Morton as "sculptural in its impact", has been critically divisive. Garbarek's more meandering recordings are often labeled as New Age music, a style generally scorned by more orthodox jazz musicians and listeners, or spiritual ancestors thereof. Other experiments have included setting a collection of poems of Olav H. Hauge to music, with a single saxophone complementing a full mixed choir; this has led to notable performances with Grex Vocalis, but not yet to recordings. In the 1980s, Garbarek's music began to incorporate synthesizers and elements of world music. He has collaborated with Indian and Pakistani musicians such as Trilok Gurtu, Zakir Hussain, Hariprasad Chaurasia, and Ustad Fateh Ali Khan.
In 1994, during heightened popularity of Gregorian chant, his album Officium, a collaboration with early music vocal performers the Hilliard Ensemble, became one of ECM's biggest-selling albums of all time, reaching the pop charts in several European countries and was followed by a sequel, Mnemosyne, in 1999. In 2005, his album In Praise of Dreams was nominated for a Grammy. Garbarek's first live album Dresden was released in 2009.
In 1999, Garbarek was appointed a Knight 1st Class of the Order of St. Olav and in 2004 he was awarded the Norwegian Arts Council award.
review
Recorded at Dresden's Alte Schlachthof in October 2007, this two-CD set is the first-ever live album to be issued under Jan Garbarek's name. Dresden, a fiery and powerful performance and a fine document of the Norwegian saxophonist's exceptional improvising capacities, captures his group in a period when it was, of necessity, reformulating its approach. Earlier in the year bassist Yuri Daniel had been drafted into the band to help Garbarek fulfil commitments when Eberhard Weber, a unique component of the Garbarek ensemble's core sound for three decades, had been sidelined by illness.
The new group tackles its repertoire head-on; with the interaction between Garbarek and drummer Manu Katché at the center of the music. Daniel, a Brazilian bassist living in Portugal whose previous associations have ranged from Maria João's group to the Lisbon Underground Music Ensemble, helps to anchor the pulses and rhythmic patterns. Rainer Brüninghaus, a Garbarek Group member since 1988, maintains his long-established role as colorist-in-action. While both bassist and keyboardist claim their own solo space, more often they 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 the group on this leg of the 2007 tour, "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."
The Norwegian-German-Brazilian-French band powers through material old and new, and sketches a world of musical interconnections - beginning with an ecstatic account of "Paper Nut", written by Indian violinist Lakshminarayana Shankar for the ECM Song for Everyone album back in 1984. "Milagre Dos Peixes" (Miracle of the Fishes), by Milton Nascimento, was a revelation for many musicians when Wayne Shorter introduced it on his Native Dancer recording: the Garbarek group lift it to another level. "Rondo Amoroso", is Garbarek's arrangement of a composition by Harald Sæverud (1897-1992). Perhaps the most prolific Norwegian composer after Grieg, Sæverud was strongly influenced by the essence of folksong - the parallel with Jan's work is clear enough.
Of Garbarek pieces, three selections from Twelve Moons are revisited - "Twelve Moons" itself, "The Tall Tear Trees" and "There Were Swallows". From Legend of the Seven Dreams, comes the dramatic "Voy Cantando". "Once I Dreamt A Tree Upside Down" with its leaping, teasing melody, was first heard on Trilok Gurtu's Living Magic. (Gurtu, incidentally, joins Garbarek for this year's round of concert dates). Material appearing on disc for the first time here includes "Heitor", "The Reluctant Saxophonist", "Fugl", "Maracuja", and the striking "Nu Bein'", a piece based on a Nubian rhythm and introduced by Jan on seljefløyte, the Norwegian overtone flute.
Dresden is an eagerly awaited release. It has been five years since In Praise of Dreams, eleven years since Rites, and sixteen years since Twelve Moons the last Garbarek disc identified unequivocally as Jan Garbarek Group album. In the interim, through steady touring, the ensemble has become perhaps the most popular European group currently playing instrumental music with strong improvisational traits - beyond genre now, and in an idiom of its own, broader than "jazz", though still inspired by its most open-minded exponents. |
