''Paths, Prints'' is an album by Norwegian jazz composer and 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 ...

recorded in December 1981 and released on the ECM label in 1982.ECM discography
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review by Ron Wynn awarded the album 3 stars calling it "One of the better, more exciting releases".Wynn, R
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Track listing

:''All compositions by Jan Garbarek'' # "The Path" - 7:11 # "Footprints" - 10:06 # "Kite Dance" - 5:35 # "To B.E." - 3:10 # "The Move" - 6:39 # "Arc" - 5:01 # "Considering the Snail" - 6:30 # "Still" - 6:18

Personnel

* Jan Garbarek - soprano saxophone,

tenor saxophone The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (while ...

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percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Ex ...

Bill Frisell William Richard Frisell (born March 18, 1951) is an American jazz guitarist, composer and arranger. Frisell first came to prominence at ECM Records in the 1980s, as both a session player and a leader. He went on to work in a variety of contexts ...

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 ...

Eberhard Weber Eberhard Weber (born 22 January 1940, in Stuttgart, Germany) is a German double bassist and composer. As a bass player, he is known for his highly distinctive tone and phrasing. Weber's compositions blend chamber jazz, European classical music, m ...

- bass * Jon Christensen - drums, percussion

References

{{Authority control ECM Records albums Jan Garbarek albums 1981 albums Albums produced by Manfred Eicher