Witchi-Tai-To (album) explained

Witchi-Tai-To
Type:studio
Artist:the Jan GarbarekBobo Stenson Quartet
Cover:Witchi-Tai-To.jpg
Studio:Arne Bendiksen Studio
Oslo, Norway
Genre:Jazz
Label:ECM 1041 ST
Producer:Manfred Eicher
Chronology:Jan GarbarekBobo Stenson Quartet
Next Title:Dansere
Next Year:1975

Witchi-Tai-To is an album by the Jan GarbarekBobo Stenson Quartet recorded over two days in November 1973 and released on ECM the following year. The quartet features rhythm section Palle Danielsson and Jon Christensen.[1]

Reception

The AllMusic review by Brian Olewnick awards the album 4½ stars and states, "Long before he became the standard-bearer for the 'ECM sound,' churning out discs with a mildly medieval or Scandinavian flavor spiced with enough new age fluff to guarantee sales, Jan Garbarek produced a string of superb albums, culminating in Witchi-Tai-To, his masterpiece... He might never have reached similar heights since, but Witchi-Tai-To, along with Dave Holland's Conference of the Birds, is one of the two finest jazz albums that ECM ever released, and simply one of the very top jazz albums of the '70s."

Track listing

  1. "A.I.R." (Carla Bley) – 8:15
  2. "Kukka" (Palle Danielsson) – 4:32
  3. "Hasta Siempre" (Carlos Puebla) – 8:10
  4. "Witchi-Tai-To" (Jim Pepper) – 4:24
  5. "Desireless" (Don Cherry) – 20:25

Personnel

Jan Garbarek–Bobo Stenson Quartet

Notes and References

  1. http://www.ecmrecords.com/Catalogue/ECM/1000/1041.php?cat=%2FArtists%2FGarbarek+Jan%23%23Jan+Garbarek&we_start=64&lvredir=712 ECM catalogue