The Navigator (Paul McCandless album)

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Navigator
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Studio album by
Released1982 (1982)
RecordedFebruary 1981
Studio Right Track Recording, New York City
Genre Jazz
Length44:39
Label Landslide
Producer Michael Rothschild
Paul McCandless chronology
All the Mornings Bring
(1978)
Navigator
(1982)
Heresay
(1988)

Navigator is an album by American jazz instrumentalist Paul McCandless recorded in 1981 for the Landslide label. [1] It was re-released in 1994.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Julian" – 6:57
  2. "Now and Then" – 5:38
  3. "Helix" – 4:26
  4. "Non-Navigator" – 2:17
  5. "The Great Lawn" – 5:31
  6. "Willow" – 8:26
  7. "Circle Waltz" – 5:16
  8. "Synapse – The Well" – 3:01
  9. "Downstream" – 7:30
  • Recorded at Right Track Recording (now MSR) in New York City on February 1981 [2]

Personnel

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References

  1. "Navigator – Paul McCandless | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic .
  2. "Paul McCandless – Navigator (1994, CD)". Discogs . 1994.