| The Navigator | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Andrew Cyrille |
| Cover: | The Navigator (album).jpg |
| Released: | 1982 |
| Recorded: | September 21 & 22, 1982 |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Length: | 44:39 |
| Label: | Soul Note |
| Producer: | Giovanni Bonandrini |
| Chronology: | Andrew Cyrille |
| Prev Title: | Special People |
| Prev Year: | 1980 |
| Next Title: | Andrew Cyrille Meets Brötzmann in Berlin |
| Next Year: | 1983 |
The Navigator is an album by American jazz drummer Andrew Cyrille, recorded in 1982 for the Italian Soul Note label.[1]
The AllMusic review by Ron Wynn stated: "This is an example of thoughtful, nicely played group improvisation".[2] The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings awarded the album 4 stars, and wrote that it demonstrates Cyrille's "increasing interest in an Africanized language for jazz... each of the players introduces a section, adding bearings and compass points to a collective navigation back to the source. As with many of Cyrille's records, it asserts the jazz tradition by seeming to shed it, layer by layer. What this and the earlier Metamusicians' Stomp seem to suggest is that, the further jazz goes back towards its point of ancestral departure, the more completely it is itself."
All compositions by Andrew Cyrille except as indicated