Dresden In Concert

Recorded at Dresden’s Alte Schlachthof in October 2007, this 2CD set is the first live album to be issued under Jan Garbarek’s name and the quartet’s first recording of any sort since 1999’s Rites (EC M1685). “Dresden”, a fiery, powerful performance and a fine document of the Norwegian saxophonist’s exceptional improvising capacities, captures his group in a period when it was 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 centre of the music. Brazilian bassist Daniel, helps to anchor the pulses and rhythm patterns, while piano & keys man Rainer Brüninghaus, a Garbarek Group member since 1988, maintains his established role as colourist-in-action.

Disk 1

1. Paper Nut
2. The Tall Tear Trees
3. Heitor
4. Twelve Moons
5. Rondo Amoroso
6. Tao
7. Milagre Dos Peixes

Disk 2

1. There Were Swallows
2. Reluctant Saxophonist
3. Transformations
4. Once I Dreamt A Tree...
5. Fugl
6. Maracuja
7. Grooving Out
8. Nu Bein
9. Voy Cantando