''Eventyr'' is an album by Norwegian jazz saxophonist and composer

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 Gar ...

recorded in December 1980 and released on

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September the following year. The trio features guitarist John Abercrombie and percussionist

Naná Vasconcelos Juvenal de Holanda Vasconcelos, known as Naná Vasconcelos (2 August 1944 – 9 March 2016), was a Brazilian percussionist, vocalist and berimbau player, notable for his work as a solo artist on over two dozen albums, and as a backing musician wi ...

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Reception

The

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review awarded the album 2½ stars.Allmusic Review
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'' awarded the album three stars.

Track listing

:''All compositions by Jan Garbarek, John Abercrombie and Naná Vasconcelos except as indicated'' # "Soria Maria" - 11:39 # "Lillekort" - 5:02 # "Eventyr" - 9:19 # "Weaving a Garland" (Traditional) - 2:20 # "Once upon a Time" - 9:02 # "The Companion" (Garbarek, Vasconcelos) - 5:49 # "Snipp, Snapp, Snute" (Garbarek, Vasconcelos) - 4:30 # "East of the Sun and West of the Moon" - 8:27

Personnel

– soprano and tenor saxophones,

flute The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, producing sound with a vibrating column of air. Flutes produce sound when the player's air flows across an opening. In th ...

s * John Abercrombie – guitars *

–

berimbau The berimbau (, borrowed from Kimbundu ''mbirimbau'') is a traditional Angolan musical bow that is commonly used in Brazil. It is also known as ''sekitulege'' among the Baganda and Busoga. It consists of a single-stringed bow attached to a gourd ...

talking drum The talking drum is an hourglass-shaped drum from West Africa, which can be used as a form of speech surrogacy by regulating its pitch and rhythm to mimic the tone and prosody of human speech. It has two drumheads connected by leather t ...

, percussion, voice

References

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