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Title: Fine Scandinavian Chamber Jazz
Review: Arild Andersen here offers a worthy addition to the ECM catalog, upholding its standards for intelligent, richly-textured, chamber jazz. Andersen has played free jazz in the tradition of Ornette Coleman, strongly folk-influenced music, and mainstream jazz. On this cd, he joins with a string quartet to create mostly introspective, "moody" pieces, some apparently through-composed and others improvised. He is highly-skilled, as are his collaborators. The sound is, typically for ECM, immaculate.
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