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War Orphans

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War Orphans
Studio album by
the Bobo Stenson Trio
Released1998
RecordedMay 1997
StudioRainbow Studio
Oslo, Norway
GenreJazz
Length54:36
LabelECM
ECM 1604
ProducerManfred Eicher
Bobo Stenson chronology
Reflections
(1993)
War Orphans
(1998)
Serenity
(1999)

War Orphans is an album by the Bobo Stenson Trio, recorded in May 1997 and released on ECM the following year. The trio features rhythm section Anders Jormin and Jon Christensen.[1]

Reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[3]

The AllMusic review by Thom Jurek stated: "While the last Bobo Stenson Trio offering found the band cohesively searching for a new harmonic language together and separately as composers, on War Orphans they seem to have found it."[2]

Track listing

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All compositions by Anders Jormin, except as noted.
  1. "Oleo de mujer con sombrero" (Silvio Rodríguez) - 8:32
  2. "Natt" - 8:10
  3. "All My Life" (Ornette Coleman) - 6:25
  4. "Eleventh of January" - 5:58
  5. "War Orphans" (Coleman) - 6:17
  6. "Sediment" (Jormin) 5:22
  7. "Bengali Blue" (Bobo Stenson) 8:18
  8. "Melancholia" (Duke Ellington) - 5:28

Personnel

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Bobo Stenson Trio

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References

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  1. ^ ECM discography accessed October 11, 2011
  2. ^ a b Jurek, T. AllMusic Review accessed October 11, 2011
  3. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1339. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

See also

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