''Journey's End'' is an album by Czech bassist Miroslav Vitouš recorded in July 1982 and released on ECM the following year. The quartet features reed player

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review by David R. Adler awarded the album 4 stars stating "''Journey's End'' is highly recommended to those willing to search for it."Adler, D. R
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Track listing

:''All compositions by Miroslav Vitouš except as indicated'' # "U Dunaje U Prešpurka" - 9:18 # "Tess" (John Surman) - 5:56 # "Carry On, No. 1" (Surman, John Taylor, Jon Christensen, Vitouš) - 5:08 # "Paragraph Jay" (Surman) - 6:16 # "Only One" - 7:14 # "Windfall" (Taylor) - 6:17

Personnel

* Miroslav Vitouš –

double bass The double bass (), also known as the upright bass, the acoustic bass, the bull fiddle, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched string instrument, chordophone in the modern orchestra, symphony orchestra (excluding rare additions ...

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soprano saxophone The soprano saxophone is a small, high-pitched member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented in the 1840s by Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax. Built in B♭ an octave above the tenor saxophone (or rarely, slightly small ...

baritone saxophone The baritone saxophone (sometimes abbreviated to "bari sax") is a member of the saxophone family of instruments, larger (and lower-pitched) than the tenor saxophone, but smaller (and higher-pitched) than the bass saxophone, bass. It is the lowe ...

bass clarinet The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. Like the more common Soprano clarinet, soprano B clarinet, it is usually pitched in B (meaning it is a transposing instrument on which a written C sounds as B), but it plays no ...

* John Taylor –

piano A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an Action (music), action mechanism where hammers strike String (music), strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a c ...

* Jon Christensen –

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

References

{{Authority control ECM Records albums Miroslav Vitouš albums 1983 albums Albums produced by Manfred Eicher