This one is very eagerly-awaited: it has been six years since Jan Garbarek’s last album as a leader (“In Praise of Dreams”). And, moreover, this double-album – recorded in Dresden’s Alter Schlachthof in October 2007 – is also the first-ever live set from the highly-popular Garbarek Group. The band, now including Brazilian bassist Yuri Daniel, powers through repertoire old and new, and the Norwegian saxophonist is in top form, his exchanges with Manu Katché’s bold, emphatic drums particularly exciting. Material includes “12 Moons”, “There Were Swallows”, “Voy Cantando”, an ecstatic version of “Paper Nut” (last heard on Shankar’s “Song for Everyone”) and much more.

Tracklist:

CD 1
1. Paper Nut (Shankar Lakshminarayana)
2. The Tall Tear Trees (Jan Garbarek)
3. Heitor (Garbarek)
4. Twelve Moons (Garbarek)
5. Rondo Amoroso (Harald Saeverud)
6. Tao (Yuri Daniel)
7. Milagre Dos Peixes (Milton Nascimento)

CD 2
1. There Were Swallows (Garbarek)
2. The Reluctant Saxophonist (Garbarek)
3. Transformations (Rainer Brüninghaus)
4. Once I Dreamt A Tree Upside Down (Garbarek)
5. Fugl (Garbarek)
6. Maracuja (Garbarek)
7. Grooving Out! (Manu Katché)
8. Nu Bein (Garbarek)
9. Voy Cantando (Garbarek)