Mágico: Carta de Amor

Mágico: Carta de Amor
Studio album by Jan Garbarek, Egberto Gismonti & Charlie Haden
Released November 6, 2012
Recorded April 1981, Amerikahaus, München
Genre Jazz
Length 107:54
Label ECM
ECM 2280/81
Producer Manfred Eicher
Jan Garbarek, chronology
Officium Novum
(2010)Officium Novum2010		 Mágico: Carta de Amor
(2012)		 Sleeper
(2012)Sleeper2012
Mágico chronology
Folk Songs
(1981) Folk Songs1981		 Mágico: Carta de Amor
(2012) Mágico: Carta de Amor2012

Mágico: Carta de Amor (Portuguese for "Magician: Love Letter") is a live album by saxophonist Jan Garbarek, guitarist Egberto Gismonti and bassist Charlie Haden recorded in 1981 and released on the ECM label in 2012.[1] The album follows the trio's first two recordings Magico (1979) and Folk Songs (1981).

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
The Guardian[3]

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars, stating, "Mágico: Carta de Amor is a musical treasure trove that features three players from three continents working in near-symbiotic dialogue, offering music that showcases compositional and improvisational mastery, yet transcends the limitations of genre classification".[2]

The Guardian's John Fordham noted, "It's an impassioned and fiercely improvisational collection of variations on powerful themes by all three, touching on Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra repertoire and Garbarek's free-jazz history".[3]

All About Jazz correspondent John Kelman commented, "Carta de Amor is a reminder of how a particular point in time, when the pan-cultural and cross-genre interests of three artists from vastly different backgrounds and musical upbringings, could come together in rare synchronicity".[4]

Track listing

All compositions by Egberto Gismonti except as indicated

Disc One:

  1. "Carta de Amor" - 7:25
  2. "La Pasionaria" (Charlie Haden) - 16:26
  3. "Cego Aderaldo" - 9:50
  4. "Folk Song" (Traditional) - 8:09
  5. "Don Quixote" - 8:25
  6. "Spor" (Jan Garbarek) - 14:01

Disc Two:

  1. "Branquinho" - 7:37
  2. "All That Is Beautiful" (Haden) - 15:35
  3. "Palhaço" - 9:12
  4. "Two Folk Songs" (Traditional) - 3:39
  5. "Carta de Amor, Var." - 7:35

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ ECM discography accessed December 20, 2013
  2. 1 2 Jurek, T. Allmusic Review accessed December 20, 2013
  3. 1 2 Fordham, J. The Guardian Review, November 2, 2012
  4. ↑ Kelman, J. All About Jazz review, October 30, 2012
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