Witchi-Tai-To

Occupation

Witchi -Tai -To is a jazz album by the Jan Garbarek / Bobo Stenson Quartet, taken on 27 and 28 November in 1973 and in 1974 published by ECM Records.

The album

January Garbarek Witchi -Tai -To, is regarded by his first albums like Afric Pepperbird and triptych, which were still heavily under the influence of his musical role model John Coltrane by many critics as his artistic breakthrough.

What was new at that time Garbarek Orientation in folkloristic elements ( Hasta Siempre ), which should be an essential feature in the course of the career of the saxophonist. So the band played here five pieces, of which the band leader had not a self- written. The album begins with A.I.R. by Carla Bley, in which Garbarek plays on the soprano saxophone. The catchy melody had recorded the pianist already recently on their album Escalator over the Hill. It follows that only the original composition of this album, the ballad of bassist Palle Danielsson Kukka playing a short solo here. Among the most famous pieces in the factory Garbarek the milonga -like piece Hasta siempre should be. Charlie Haden used the revolutionary hymn previously on his album Liberation Music Orchestra. The title track is a composition by the Indian saxophonist Jim Pepper, who had been repeatedly recorded by the band Oregon and was also by Garbarek's interpretation of a jazz standard in 1969 in the American charts. The finale of the album is the extensive, twenty -minute piece by Don Cherry Desireless. Here Garbarek evokes, in its extensive improvisation the spirit of John Coltrane. Don Cherry played the piece in his Relativity Suite, where, however, only took a minute.

The title

Effect

The album was one of the appeared in the early 1970s as the records of Chick Corea, Keith Jarrett, Ralph Towner, John Abercrombie and others who created the image of the Munich-based label, which is commonly referred to as the " ECM sound ".

The great commercial success of Witchi -Tai -To once more shots followed in January Garbarek with different musicians of the ECM " stable " as Belonging in April 1974, Keith Jarrett and again with Palle Danielsson and Jon Christensen as a rhythm section; Album Solstice in December 1974 with Ralph Towner and Dansere in the same occupation as Witchi -Tai -To two years later.

Assessment

Brian Olewnick calls in the All Music Guide Witchi -Tai -To and Dave Holland's Conference of the Birds, the two best jazz albums that are depending on the ECM; it was one of the truly great albums of the 1970s. 1975, it was "Album of the Year" at the Jazz Forum, the magazine of the European Jazz Federation. The American jazz magazine Down Beat rated the album with the highest rating ( five stars ), and then wrote, " the Garbarek / Stenson Quartet is certainly one of the most versatile non- electric ( gambling ) ensembles that are currently playing in the world. "

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