''Cortlandt'' is a studio album by

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. It was released in 1996.

Track listing (original release)

# Controversy (4:16) # Splinter (3:21) # Fisher's Gambit (5:17) # Hand Full of Earth (6:20) # Giant Steps (2:55) (John Coltrane) # At Taliesin (4:09) # Big Sky Wanting (6:00) # The Big Idea (6:15) # Sinfonia (Hidden Track) (33:06) a.k.a. Three-Part Invention in D minor #* Contains approximately 30 minutes of silence, then Bach's Sinfonia number 4 in D minor

Track listing (re-release)

# Controversy (4:16) # Splinter (3:21) # Fisher's Gambit (5:17) # Hand Full of Earth (6:20) # Sinfonia a.k.a. Three-Part Invention in D minor # Giant Steps (2:55) (John Coltrane) # At Taliesin (4:09) # Big Sky Wanting (6:00) # The Big Idea (6:15) # Unquity Road (3:42) (Pat Metheny) #* Originally released as a bonus track on the Japanese version of the self-titled Gordian Knot album. Artwork by Tim Spear
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Cortlandt was recorded in

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Personnel

- bass guitar, chapman stick, keyboards *

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- mandolins *

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- drums, percussion

Trivia

* "Fisher's Gambit" is reworked and renamed "Fischer's Gambit" on

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