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Family Tree (Oregon Album)
''Family Tree'' is an album by American world music/jazz group Oregon (band), Oregon featuring Ralph Towner, Paul McCandless, Glen Moore, and Mark Walker recorded in April 2012 and released on the CAM Jazz label. It was the final Oregon recording to feature bassist Glen Moore. Reception The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars stating that "Oregon have remained vital, restless, and disciplined". In his review for All About Jazz, John Kelman concludes "... with ''Family Tree'' this sixteen year-old incarnation has delivered an album that easily stands up to recordings like ''Winter Light'' (Vanguard, 1973) and ''Out of the Woods'' (Elektra, 1978), as one of Oregon's very best." Track listing All compositions by Ralph Towner except where noted. # "Bibo Babo" — 6:55 # "Tern" — 5:22 # "The Hexagram" — 5:54 # "Creeper" — 5:34 # "Jurassic" (Oregon) — 2:28 # "Family Tree" — 6:31 # "Stritch" (Oregon) — 2:47 # "Mirror Pond" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oregon (band)
Oregon is an American jazz and world music group, formed in 1970 by Ralph Towner, Paul McCandless, Glen Moore, and Collin Walcott. History Towner and Moore had been friends and occasional collaborators since meeting in 1960 as students at the University of Oregon. By 1969, both were working musicians living in New York; while collaborating with folksinger Tim Hardin they were introduced to world music pioneer Paul Winter's "Consort" ensemble, particularly member Collin Walcott, with whom Towner began improvising as an informal duo. By 1970 Towner and Moore had joined the Winter Consort and met fellow member McCandless; the four began exploring improvisation on their own, while their contributions continued to be seminal in redefining the Winter Consort "sound" in compositions like Towner's "Icarus". The four musicians made their first group recording in 1970, but the label, Increase Records, went out of business before it could be released (it eventually was issued by Vanguard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |