Mágico: Carta de Amor

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).

Mágico: Carta de Amor
Live album by
Jan Garbarek, Egberto Gismonti & Charlie Haden
ReleasedNovember 6, 2012
RecordedApril 1981
VenueAmerikahaus, München
GenreJazz
Length107:54
LabelECM
ECM 2280/81
ProducerManfred Eicher
Jan Garbarek chronology
Officium Novum
(2010)		 Mágico: Carta de Amor
(2012)		 Sleeper
(2012)
Mágico chronology
Folk Songs
(1981)		 Mágico: Carta de Amor
(2012)

Reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
All About Jazz[2]
AllMusic[3]
The Guardian[4]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz[5]

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".[2]

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".[3]

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".[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 Archived March 22, 2014, at the Wayback Machine accessed December 20, 2013
  2. Kelman, J. All About Jazz review, October 30, 2012
  3. Jurek, T. AllMusic review accessed December 20, 2013
  4. Fordham, J. The Guardian review, November 1, 2012
  5. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2006). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. Penguin Books. p. 565.
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