| While We're Young | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | John Abercrombie |
| Cover: | While We're Young (album).jpg |
| Released: | 1993 |
| Recorded: | June 1992 |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Length: | 58:37 |
| Label: | ECM ECM 1489 |
| Producer: | Manfred Eicher |
| Chronology: | John Abercrombie |
| Prev Title: | Witchcraft |
| Prev Year: | 1991 |
| Next Title: | November |
| Next Year: | 1993 |
While We're Young is an album by the jazz guitarist John Abercrombie recorded in June 1992 and released by ECM the following year. The trio features organist Dan Wall and drummer Adam Nussbaum.[1]
The editors of AllMusic awarded the album 4 stars, and reviewer Michael G. Nastos stated: "This trio hits on many different angles, from somber and reverent to acutely kinetic and truly electrifying. This is exploratory music, unique unto itself, and a landmark fusion of the '90s. If this kind of jazz is what you crave, those who were young in the '70s, it's a must-buy, no doubt."[2]
The authors of the Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded the album 3½ stars, saying, "It was widely assumed in 1992 that Abercrombie's organ trio—poised somewhere between Wes Montgomery and Lifetime—was a one-off idea, a forgivable self-indulgence that actually worked better than one had a right to expect. In fact its great success has largely defined Abercrombie's recent career and has very significantly kick-started his playing."[3]
The Washington Posts Geoffrey Himes noted that the music is "expertly played and provides the harmonic substance that such atmospheric music usually lacks," but commented: "this is one of those exceptions that lends credence to the unfair stereotype that all ECM music is as static and impersonal as the calendar art on its album covers."[4]
Tyran Grillo of ECM blog Between Sound and Space described the album as "candy for the ears," featuring a "sumptuous combination of instruments, cradled in ECM's enabling acoustics."[5]