Garbarek, Jan (saxophone) - Dresden
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4 AV 5 MÖJLIGA I BETYG I DAGENS NYHETER"Saxofonisten Jan Garbareks lyriska tonspråk har ackompanjerats på drastiskt olika vis genom åren. Ena ytterligheten måste vara hans samarbete med sångarna i Hilliardensemblen; den andra kan mycket väl vara just den här upplagan av Jan Garbarek Group. "Dresden" är en liveinspelning från en period då Eberhard Weber nyligen hade ersatts av brasilianen Yuri Daniel på elbas. Den nödvändiga, här pågående justeringen av gruppens dynamik och sound ger musiken en särskild nerv, inte minst i mer improviserade avsnitt. Som tidigare sker också mycket i mötet mellan Garbarek och den drivne trumslagaren Manu Katché. Rainer Brüninghaus på piano och keyboards gör gruppen komplett och har stor känsla för musikens olika stämningar. Det är ett dubbelalbum om sju respektive nio låtar. Om än bara en del av Garbareks stora repertoar, så visar materialet på en kreativ bredd, från originalkompositioner hämtade från flera tidigare skivor, till intressanta covers som "Milagre dos peixes", skiven av Milton Nascimento men kanske mer känd som en av låtarna på Wayne Shorters "Native dancer"."
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Jan Garbarek: soprano and tenor saxophones, silje flute; Rainer Brüninghaus: piano, keyboards; Yuri Daniel: bass; Manu Katché: drums
This two-CD set is the first-ever live album to be issued under Jan Garbarek's name. "Dresden", a fiery and powerful performance and a fine document of the Norwegian saxophonist's exceptional improvising capacities, captures his group in a period when it was, of necessity, 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. Daniel, a Brazilian bassist living in Portugal whose previous associations have ranged from Maria João's group to the Lisbon Underground Music Ensemble, helps to anchor the pulses and rhythm patterns. Rainer Brüninghaus, a Garbarek Group member since 1988, maintains his long-established role as colourist-in-action. While both bassist and keyboardist claim their own solo space, more often they help to shape a climate in which Garbarek's hymnic, declamatory and intensely melodic solos can find full expression, drawing energy also from Katché's hard-driving drums. As The Guardian wrote of the group on this leg of the 2007 tour, "The contrast between an intense jamming sound and the songlike simplicity of the tunes is always Garbarek's magic mix, but this version of the band has an exhilarating intensity." The Norwegian-German-Brazilian-French band powers through material old and new, and sketches a world of musical interconnections - beginning with an ecstatic account of "Paper Nut", written by Indian violinist Lakshminarayana Shankar for the ECM "Song for Everyone" album back in 1984. "Milagre Dos Peixes" (Miracle of the Fishes), by Milton Nascimento, was a revelation for many musicians when Wayne Shorter introduced it on his "Native Dancer" recording: the Garbarek group lift it to another level. "Rondo Amoroso", is Garbarek's arrangement of a composition by Harald Sæverud (1897-1992). Perhaps the most prolific Norwegian composer after Grieg, Sæverud was strongly influenced by the essence of folksong - the parallel with Jan's work is clear enough.