ECM Records Jan Garbarek - Afric Pepperbird ( LUMINESSENCE )

A1 Scarabée
Composed By – Jan Garbarek
6:15
A2 Mah-Jong
Composed By – Arild Andersen
1:50
A3 Beast Of Kommodo
Composed By – Jan Garbarek
12:30
B1 Blow Away Zone
Composed By – Jan Garbarek
8:35
B2 MYB
Composed By – Arild Andersen
1:50
B3 Concentus
Composed By – Arild Andersen
0:47
B4 Afric Pepperbird
Composed By – Jan Garbarek
8:00
B5 Blupp
Composed By – Jon Christensen
1:05


Jan Garbarek Quartet
Jan Garbarek - Tenor Saxophone, Bass Saxophone, Clarinet, Flutes, Percussion
Terje Rypdal - Guitar, Bugle
Arild Andersen - Bass, African Thumb Piano, Xylophone
Jon Christensen - Percussion
RECORDED September 1970, Arne Bendiksen Studio, Oslo

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.”


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