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Rypdal / Vitous / DeJohnette | 
| Artists: Terje Rypdal, Miroslav Vitous, Jack Dejohnette
Label: ECM
Category: Music
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 10162
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.8 x 0.2
MPN: 001187502
UPC: 602517799264
EAN: 0602517799264
ASIN: B001CSQIR8
Release Date: October 27, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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| Tracks:
| • | Sunrise | | • | Den Forste Sne | | • | Will | | • | Believer | | • | Flight | | • | Seasons |
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| Customer Reviews:
 A brooding, forceful guitar trio April 26, 2004
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Where did music like this come from? DeJohnette started with Coletraneand was not that long out of of Miles Davis' early 70's band, lead his owngroup of experimental jazz and drove fire-breathing fusion with JohnAbercrombie in the Gateway trio.
Vitous is classically trained withroots in the early Weather Report and Rypdal, also classically trained,took Jimi Hendrix sensibilities to school with George Russell!
Put that into a mix with Rypdal's brooding setting the dominant mood andyou get a kind of dark, intelligent fusion. With a deep musicalunderstanding. Sparse yet driven, but with no need for flash.
Yeah, it's not new any more. That makes it easier to appreciate. Put itup against much of the jazz/rock experiments of the time and it shinesprecisely because it takes those ingredients to the next level ofmusicianship. It still has the power to change the way you perceive music.(Some will find that a bit hard to take.
 Sorry to be disrespectful, but... January 18, 2004
1 out of 9 found this review helpful
... you know that bit in Spinal Tap when they go on a "jazz odyssey"? Now you know what this sounds like!
My All-Time Favourite Album (honest!) September 25, 2002
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
This is the album that had the biggest effect on my musical tastes, bar none. I heard it by chance in a record shop, back in 1979 (when I was a pure prog-head, but getting a little bored), and it sounded SO strange and incomprehensible that I had to hear more. (Actually, I didn't buy it that same day, but sought it out some weeks later, remembering only the beautiful cover, not even where it was filed - so it took ages to find!) It didn't grab me immediately - it was way too wierd to do that - but grew slowly... Within a few months, I'd every single Terje Rypdal album that I could lay my hands on. To think that before that, I really didn't think much of guitar-led music!Years later, I recognise that some parts, particularly the electric-piano-underlaid Will and Believer, are descendants of Miles' Silent Way; but the opener Sunrise is still unique, with its frantic, arythmic tickety cymbals and snare, over which bowed bass and wailing guitar play a set of slow themes that move to some strange yet haunting logic. It's not really jazz (not even Euro-jazz), it has an out-in-the-wilderness atmosphere that's not normally associated with the word "jazz"; yet nor is it rock... even now, I don't know what to call it! Den Forste Sne is as close to a straightforward tune as Terje would get for some time, and the best place for beginners. A relatively simple melody is taken first on bowed bass, then on guitar; but even this near-ballad is introduced by an off-planet guitar-synth solo. The same thing happens for the closing track, Seasons; things are a bit more chaotic and free-form here, but it's worth hanging on for the beautiful shimmering ending which seems almost symphonic (in fact, it quotes a fragment from one of Terje's neo-classical pieces). The only track that still does little for me is the frantic Flight, perhaps because Terje forsakes his wailing sound for something more punchy and angular. It just doesn't seem to fit in with the rest of the album's open, spacious, scenic feel. But can forgive this, for the rest of the album is just so damn good. As I said, this album had a massive impact on my musical tastes; it was my entry point to the ECM roster, and to jazz (the smoky nightclub-type stuff) in general. When I finally got a CD player, this was the first CD I bought - in fact, I made sure I could find it before I bought the player! I'll never forget hearing for the very first time Sunrise's opening cymbals without the "thunk" of a needle and the inevitable crackles of an oft-played LP! This album is still very special to me; if I could only keep one album, in any genre, then it would have to be this. Sorry if that sounds like a cliche, but I think I'm old enough now to be able to say it and mean it!
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