Afric Pepperbird
Context
Title track of the album by the Jan Garbarek Quartet released by ECM (no. 1007), recorded on September 22 and 23, 1970 at Bendiksen Studio in Oslo, produced by Manfred Eicher with Jan Erik Kongshaug as recording engineer. The quartet brings together Terje Rypdal, Arild Andersen and Jon Christensen, the core of the future Nordic "ECM sound."
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Nordic jazz, ECM and European jazz, Free jazz. Among the origins and influences of Nordic jazz: ECM and European jazz, Modal.