Terje Rypdal / Miroslav Vitous / Jack DeJohnette – Terje Rypdal / Miroslav Vitous / Jack DeJohnette

Uh trio stellare, una musica rarefatta e accativante.
La simbiosi fra i tre musicisti è spettacolare....appena scoperto e straascoltato.

One of the finest examples of atmospheric/psychedelic jazz you'll ever hear. A masterpiece!

I used to listen to this album in my Volvo when going through tundra in Lapland. Really atmospheric, worth having on an LP too.

Perhaps no other album epitomizes the ECM label's atmospheric aesthetic more than this magical 1979 release by Terje Rypdal, Miroslav Vitous and Jack DeJohnette.

The Czech bassist and the American drummer are clearly on the Norwegian guitarist's turf for this recording. They practically seem to declare, "When in Oslo..." as Vitous' crying arco bass and DeJohnette's delicate, crystalline cymbal work join Rypdal's soaring, reverb drenched guitar, evoking scenes of all-day sunrises and first snows in a veritable aural celebration of the Nordic outdoors.

A fine, fine contemporary jazz album. Vitous using his bow further plunges the music into the classic icy depths of ECM around this time. Rypdal is mostly restrained and DeJohnette holds the trio together in the perfect, understated way only he can.

Does anyone else have a misprint of the Touchstones reissue of this, giving the catalogue number as 'ECM 1000' on the spine? I'll try to add scans of mine at some point.

Recordings like this, is what makes ECM Records one of the best labels in the world - the teaming of Rypdal, Vitous and DeJohnette in 1978 produced an album so full of brilliant atmospheric sound, a masterpiece of truly virtuous Jazz.