All Those Born with Wings

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All Those Born with Wings
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Studio album by
ReleasedFebruary 1987 [1]
RecordedAugust 1986
StudioRainbow Studio
Oslo, Norway
Genre Jazz
Length43:15
Label ECM
ECM 1324
Producer Manfred Eicher
Jan Garbarek chronology
It's OK to Listen to the Gray Voice
(1985)
All Those Born with Wings
(1987)
Legend of the Seven Dreams
(1988)

All Those Born with Wings is a solo album by Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek, recorded in August 1986 and released on ECM the following year.

Contents

Reception

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AllMusic awarded the album with 3 stars, with reviewer Mark W. B. Allender stating, "On the hip with most of Garbarek's recordings, this one is airy and spacy—belting out screaming sax lines. The five pieces here—serially titled—tend to blend together, giving the impression of one long song." [4]

Track listing

All compositions by Jan Garbarek.

  1. "1st Piece" – 6:09
  2. "2nd Piece" – 4:51
  3. "3rd Piece" (in memory of Andrej Tarkovskij) – 7:38
  4. "4th Piece" – 6:34
  5. "5th Piece" – 12:54
  6. "6th Piece" – 5:09

Personnel

Technical personnel

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References

  1. "All Those Born with Wings". ECM .
  2. Allmusic Review
  3. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 525. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  4. Allender, M. W. B. Allmusic Review: All Those Born with Wings accessed 10 March 2010