release date: Jan. 1991
format: cd
[album rate: 4 / 5]
Tracklist: 1. "Star" (5 / 5) - 2. "Jumper" - 3. "Lamenting" - 4. "Anthem" (4 / 5) - 5. "Roses for You" (4 / 5) - 6. "Clouds in the Mountain" (4 / 5) - 7. "Snowman" (3 / 5) - 8. "The Music of My People" (3 / 5)
Released as 'Jan Garbarek - Miroslav Vitous - Peter Erskine' (Vitous: bass, Erskine: drums). The album is unmistakably Jan Garbarek BUT although I'm quite fond of this release, it's also very different from his most recent releases before, and after this one. The style is still jazz fusion but it's a much more traditional jazz album than his other releases and it has a touch of jazz bop and in that, a stroke of Mingus. Of course this has to do with the fact that the majority of the album's tracks has the signature of the bass player Miroslav Vitous in composer credits. Garbarek "only" takes credit for the title track and the co-writing of "Snowman", and collaborator, and drummer, Erskine takes the credits for "Anthem", "The Music of My People", and co-writer of "Snowman". The style is narrowed down to the more "pure" jazz styles and the usual element of traditional folk is completely absent here. The release also shows how Garbarek is an excellent band player and interpreter.
