War Orphans

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War Orphans
War Orphans.jpg
Studio album by
Released1998
RecordedMay 1997
GenreJazz
Length54:36
LabelECM
ProducerManfred Eicher
Bobo Stenson chronology
Reflections
(1993)
War Orphans
(1998)
Serenity
(1999)

War Orphans is an album by Swedish pianist Bobo Stenson recorded in 1997 and released on the ECM label.[1]

Reception[]

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars stating "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]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic4/5 stars[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings4/4 stars[3]

Track listing[]

All compositions by Anders Jormin except as indicated
  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
  • Recorded at the Rainbow Studio in Oslo, Norway in May 1997

Personnel[]

References[]

  1. ^ ECM discography accessed October 11, 2011
  2. ^ Jump up to: 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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