''Mágico'' (

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for either the adjective "magic" or the noun "magician") is an album by bassist

Charlie Haden Charles Edward Haden (August 6, 1937 – July 11, 2014) was an American jazz double bass player, bandleader, composer and educator whose career spanned more than 50 years. In the late 1950s, he was an original member of the ground-breaking ...

, saxophonist

Jan Garbarek Jan Garbarek () (born 4 March 1947) is a Norwegian jazz saxophonist, who is also active in classical music and world music. Garbarek was born in Mysen, Østfold, southeastern Norway, the only child of a former Polish prisoner of war, Czesław ...

and guitarist

Egberto Gismonti Egberto Amin Gismonti (born December 5, 1947) is a Brazilian composer, guitarist and pianist. Biography Gismonti was born in the small city of Carmo, Rio de Janeiro, Carmo, state of Rio de Janeiro (state), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, into a musi ...

recorded in 1979 and released on the ECM label.ECM discography
accessed September 14, 2011

Reception

The

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review by Scott Yanow awarded the album four stars, stating, "The trio performs group originals and an obscurity during the picturesque and continually interesting release; this combination works well".Yanow,
AllMusic Review
accessed September 14, 2011

Track listing

All compositions by

except as indicated: # "Bailarina" ( Geraldo Carneiro, Piry Reis) – 14:30 # "Mágico" – 7:47 # "Silence" (

) – 10:17 # "Spor" (

) – 6:11 # "Palhaço" – 5:00 *Recorded at Talent Studio in

Oslo Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population ...

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in June 1979

Personnel

– bass *

–

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–

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strin ...

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keybo ...

References

External links

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Charlie Haden / Jan Garbarek / Egberto Gismonti - ''Mágico'' (1980) album releases & credits
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Charlie Haden / Jan Garbarek / Egberto Gismonti - ''Mágico'' (1980) album to be listened
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