''Green Shading into Blue'' is the third album by Norwegian jazz bassist and composer Arild Andersen recorded in 1978 and released on the

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review by Jim Todd awarded the album 2 stars, stating "This is an outstanding group of individual talents who can communicate musically with one another at the highest level. For the 1978 follow-up, though, incongruous elements have now been grafted on here and there: occasional bits of string synthesizer, "soft rock" riffing, passages of sensitive, new age noodling. The result is neither particularly commercial, nor especially good jazz, relative to the players who made it".Todd, J
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Track listing

:''All compositions by Arild Andersen except as indicated'' # "Sole" - 9:33 # "The Guitarist" - 3:57 # "Anima" (Lars Jansson) - 9:00 # "Radka's Samba" - 4:10 # "Terhi" (Jansson) - 3:02 # "Green Shading into Blue" - 9:04 # "Jana" - 7:00 :*Recorded at Talent Studios in Oslo, Norway in April 1978

Personnel

* Arild Andersen -

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* Lars Jansson -

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References

{{Authority control ECM Records albums Arild Andersen albums 1978 albums Albums produced by Manfred Eicher