''Rites'' is a

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by the Norwegian

saxophonist The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed on a mouthpiece vibrates to pr ...

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 1998 and released on the ECM label.ECM discography
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Reception

The

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review by Thom Jurek stated: "On one collection, listeners get music for prayer, contemplation, and grief, as well as a funky European read of indigenous music for moving to and celebrating. Clearly this is what sets ''Rites'' above Garbarek's other recordings, him taking that balance he possessed so early in his career back again and putting it to work in a near-sacred setting".Jurek, T
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Track listing

:''All compositions by Jan Garbarek except as indicated'' ''Disc One:'' # "Rites" - 8:29 # "Where the Rivers Meet" - 7:02 # "Vast Plain, Clouds" - 5:55 # "So Mild the Wind, So Meek the Water" - 6:11 # "Song, Tread Lightly" - 7:45 # "It's OK to Listen to the Gray Voice" - 6:45 # "Her Wild Ways" - 6:46 ''Disc Two:'' # "It's High Time" - 3:36 # "One Ying for Every Yang" - 6:36 # "Pan" - 6:13 # "We Are the Stars" - 5:03 # "The Moon Over Mtatsminda" (

Jansug Kakhidze Jansug Ivanes dze Kakhidze ( ka, ჯანსუღ კახიძე; 26 May 1935 — 7 March 2002) was a Georgian musician, composer, singer and conductor nicknamed "the Georgian Karajan". Kakhidze was music director of the Georgian State ...

) - 4:02 # "Malinye" (

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) - 6:22 # "The White Clown" - 3:47 # "Evenly They Danced" - 5:18 # "Last Rite" - 8:25

Personnel

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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 th ...

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s, sampler,

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Rainer Brüninghaus Rainer Brüninghaus (born 21 November 1949) is a German jazz pianist, composer and university teacher. Career He was born in Bad Pyrmont, Lower Saxony, Germany. Rainer Brüninghaus was educated in classical piano, playing from the age of nine, ...

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 keyboa ...

(Disc One tracks 4, 6 & 7),

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(Disc One tracks 3 & 6, Disc Two tracks 2 & 7) *

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 (Disc One tracks 3, 4, 6, & 7, Disc Two tracks 2 & 7) *

Marilyn Mazur Marilyn Mazur (born January 18, 1955) is an American-born Danish percussionist. Since 1975, she has worked as a percussionist with various groups, among them Six Winds with Alex Riel. Mazur is primarily an autodidact, but she has a degree in ...

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(Disc One tracks 3, 4, 6 & 7, Disc Two tracks 2, 6 & 7), percussion (Disc One tracks 2 & 5) *Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra -

conducted Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance, such as an orchestral or choral concert. It has been defined as "the art of directing the simultaneous performance of several players or singers by the use of gesture." The primary duti ...

(Disc Two track 5) *

Bugge Wesseltoft Jens Christian Bugge Wesseltoft (born 1 February 1964) is a Norwegian jazz pianist, composer, and producer, son of jazz guitarist Erik Wesseltoft. Career In 1989, Wesseltoft collaborated with the Knut Riisnæs Quartet and was soon after ...

- synthesizer (Disc One track 1, Disc Two tracks 1, 8 & 9),

accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...

(Disc Two track 6) * Sølvguttene Choir - conducted by Torstein Grythe (Disc Two track 4)

References

{{Authority control 1998 albums ECM Records albums Jan Garbarek albums Albums produced by Manfred Eicher