Afric Pepperbird

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Afric Pepperbird
Studio album by Jan Garbarek

Publication
(s)

1970

admission

September 22 and 23, 1970

Label (s) ECM records

Format (s)

LP, CD

Genre (s)

Free jazz

Title (number)

8th

running time

40:52

occupation Jan Garbarek, Terje Rypdal, Arild Andersen and Jon Christensen

production

Manfred Eicher

Studio (s)

Bendiksen Studio, Oslo

chronology
Esoteric Circle

(1969)

Afric Pepperbird Sart

(1971)

Jan Garbarek (2007)

Afric Pepperbird is an album by Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek , which he recorded together with guitarist Terje Rypdal , bassist Arild Andersen and drummer Jon Christensen - his Jan Garbarek quartet.

album

Afric Pepperbird was recorded on September 22nd and 23rd, 1970 at the Bendiksen Studio in Oslo, with Jan Erik Kongshaug as sound engineer. The album was Garbarek's first album released by ECM Records and thus the beginning of the collaboration with this record label that has continued to this day. Four of the eight compositions on the album on which the improvisations are based ( Skarabée , Beast of Kommodo , Blow Away Zone and Afric Pepperbird ) are by Jan Garbarek, three compositions ( Mah-Jong , MYB and Concentus ) were contributed by Arild Andersen and one composition (Blupp) comes from Jon Christensen.

Track list

  • Jan Garbarek: Afric Pepperbird (ECM 1007)
  1. Skarabée (Garbarek) - 6:15
  2. Mah-Jong (Andersen) - 1:50
  3. Beast of Kommodo (Garbarek) - 12:30
  4. Blow Away Zone (Garbarek) - 8:35
  5. MYB (Andersen) - 1:50
  6. Concentus (Andersen) - 0:47
  7. Afric Pepperbird (Garbarek) - 7:58
  8. Blupp (Christensen) - 1:05

Contributors

Musicians and their instruments

Production staff

reception

The Allmusic -Rezension Brian Olewnick gives the album 4½ out of 5 stars and said: "Together with Sart , Tryptikon and Witchi-Tai-To (as well as a previous recording at Flying Dutchman Records ) represents this album the strongest and most energetic part of Garbarek's career before succumbing to what came to be known as the ECM aesthetic. Highly recommended. "The Jazz - Rough Guide writes:" ... promising start. The album hints at the Impressionist direction Garbarek will later take, but also reveals his inward-looking, complaint side that Coltrane and Ayler owe so much to. The title track also refers to Miles Davis of those days ”. Nordische-Musik.de find: “Guitarist Terje Rypdal, bassist Arild Andersen and drummer Jon Christensen let off steam with their autodidactic boss in frenetic-expressive free jazz influenced by American role models (John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders ), which divides the audience : Friends of later sonorous albums cannot do much with the "noise", while other Garbarek only attested a permanent relapse into lethargy after this tonal tornado. The fact is: Free jazzers can still learn a disc from the expressive power of this ecstatic liberation. ”The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide awards 3 out of 5 stars.

Richard Cook and Brian Morton rated the album in the Penguin Guide to Jazz with the second highest rating (3½ stars); for the writers it is "an amazing debut". With its Coltrane influences, the multiphonic intensity based on Ayler, combined with Dexter Gordon's phrasing, it is also the album that stands most outside of his (later) oeuvre. The rhythmic collaboration with Andersen and Christensen can hardly be beat; Terje Rypdal's abstract, unmetric piecework also fits this gig more or less perfectly.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Afric Pepperbird. at discogs.com, accessed July 1, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Afric Pepperbird. at ecmreviews.com, accessed July 1, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Afric Pepperbird. at allmusic.com, accessed July 1, 2017 .
  4. ^ Ian Carr, Digby Fairweather, Brian Priestley: Rough Guide Jazz. The ultimate guide to jazz music. 1700 artists and bands from the beginning until today . Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 1999, ISBN 3-476-01584-X , p. 219 f .
  5. ↑ Afric Pepperbird. at nordische-musik.de, accessed on July 3, 2017 .
  6. ^ J. Swenson: The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide . Random House / Rolling Stone, New York 1985, ISBN 0-394-72643-X , pp. 174 .
  7. ^ Richard Cook, Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz . 6th edition. ISBN 0-14-051521-6 (on CD).