Dansere

Dansere
- 3xCD
- released 2012 in Germany by ECM Records (ECM 2146-48)
- Genre: Jazz
The Dansere box brings together all of Jan Garbarek s ECM collaborations with pianist Bobo Stenson and marks a welcome return to the catalogue for three much-loved albums: - Sart (recorded 1971), Witchi-Tai To (1973) and Dansere (1975) - all of which have been out of print in recent years. As Michael Tucker remarks in the liner notes to the set , these are recordings which brought freshly intelligent and invigorating perspective to bear on questions of dynamics, group sound, interaction and swing, the relation of improvisation and abstraction to the roots of jazz, and the relevance of archetypal yet freshly inflected folk forms to contemporary music. Two ensembles are heard here, the classic Garbarek-Rypdal-Andersen-Christensen group augmented by Bobo Stenson on the exploratory Sart , and the spirited Jan Garbarek-Bobo Stenson Quartet, one of the most exciting groups of the era, on Witchi-Tai-To and Dansere . The birth of the latter group was very spontaneous the Witchi-Tai-To session was originally projected as a Stenson date, with just Palle Danielsson and Christensen, but after Jan Garbarek had guested with Bobo s trio at the 1973 Jazz Jamboree in Warsaw, the Swedish pianist proposed the quartet format instead. On Witchi-To To (disc 2 here) the repertoire largely reflects Stenson s enthusiasms, with the title composition written by Jim Pepper, Carla Bley s A.I.R (from Escalator Over The Hill ) as album opener, and a 20-minute account of Don Cherry s Desireless as the highpoint (Stenson was still playing often with Cherry in this period). Garbarek responds splendidly to the challenges of the material, a tour-de-force of post-free and modal jazz possibilities.

In contrast all the material on Dansere (Disc 3) is either composed by the saxophonist or adapted by him from folk sources. A wonderful album in its own right, it established a direction for Garbarek s music in the decades ahead. This was an extraordinarily resourceful band. As Jon Christensen says in the liner notes: We all knew each other s playing so well, we only needed a note or two from someone and off we would go, sometimes really out , but never forgetting the lyrical side of things. Jan always had a strong sense of what he wanted in the music, but everyone contributed strongly to wherever the music took us. A dynamic band, with great improvisational strengths, the Garbarek-Stenson Quartet was also a very popular one in its heyday, winning readers polls as Band of the Year in Jazz Forum, and collecting the Deutsche Schallplattenpreis for Dansere . At its best this group had a chemistry that I ve very rarely known, says Bobo Stenson. And I look back at the whole period as a happy and creative time.
Country USA
Brand CD
Manufacturer Ecm Records
Binding Audio CD
ItemPartNumber 9806403
Model 25343158
ReleaseDate 2012-07-31
UnitCount 3
UPCs 602527551784
EANs 0602527551784

Country	USA
Brand	CD
Manufacturer	Ecm Records
Binding	Audio CD
ItemPartNumber	9806403
Model	25343158
ReleaseDate	2012-07-31
UnitCount	3
UPCs	602527551784
EANs	0602527551784

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