War Orphans

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War Orphans
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Studio album by
the Bobo Stenson Trio
Released1998
RecordedMay 1997
StudioRainbow Studio
Oslo, Norway
Genre Jazz
Length54:36
Label ECM
ECM 1604
Producer Manfred Eicher
Bobo Stenson chronology
Reflections
(1993)
War Orphans
(1998)
Serenity
(1999)

War Orphans is an album by the Bobo Stenson Trio, recorded in May 1997 and released on ECM the following year. The trio features rhythm section Anders Jormin and Jon Christensen. [1]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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The AllMusic review by Thom Jurek stated: "While the last Bobo Stenson Trio offering found the band cohesively searching for a new harmonic language together and separately as composers, on War Orphans they seem to have found it." [2]

Track listing

All compositions by Anders Jormin, except as noted.
  1. "Oleo de mujer con sombrero" (Silvio Rodríguez) - 8:32
  2. "Natt" - 8:10
  3. "All My Life" (Ornette Coleman) - 6:25
  4. "Eleventh of January" - 5:58
  5. "War Orphans" (Coleman) - 6:17
  6. "Sediment" (Jormin) 5:22
  7. "Bengali Blue" (Bobo Stenson) 8:18
  8. "Melancholia" (Duke Ellington) - 5:28

Personnel

Bobo Stenson Trio

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References

  1. ECM discography accessed October 11, 2011
  2. 1 2 Jurek, T. AllMusic Review accessed October 11, 2011
  3. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1339. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.

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