{"title":"Jon Christensen","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eJon Christensen won the Norwegian Jazz Amateur Competition at seventeen, began working with visiting American musicians in Oslo's clubs shortly after, and by the mid-1960s was a regular collaborator of composer George Russell alongside a group of young Norwegian improvisers that included Jan Garbarek, Terje Rypdal, and Arild Andersen. Their ECM debut as a Garbarek-led quartet, \"Afric Pepperbird\" (1970), was among the label's earliest releases and proved to be the first of around seventy albums Christensen would record for Manfred Eicher over the following five decades. His drum concept was unusual in ways that are easier to hear than describe: he spoke of playing in waves rather than beats, of colouring music the way a horn player phrases, and the dry, precise ping of his 22-inch Istanbul K ride cymbal became so associated with the ECM sound that it is difficult to hear one without thinking of the other. The Garbarek-Bobo Stenson Quartet recordings of the mid-1970s, \"Witchi-Tai-To\" (1974) and \"Dansere\" (1976), and then the Keith Jarrett Belonging Quartet albums, \"Belonging\" (1974) and \"My Song\" (1977), represent his most collected sideman work. His name also appears across ECM records by Ralph Towner, Eberhard Weber, Enrico Rava, Charles Lloyd, Tomasz Stanko, and many others.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"jan-garbarek-keith-jarrett-palle-danielsson-jon-christensen-belonging-1974-ecm-vinyl-lp","title":"Jan Garbarek \/ Keith Jarrett \/ Palle Danielsson \/ Jon Christensen - Belonging (1974 ECM Vinyl LP)","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eVinyl\u003c\/b\u003e: VG+\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSleeve\u003c\/b\u003e: VG+\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eObi:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eNone\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOur grading system explained \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/dpbg4u-d1.myshopify.com\/pages\/secondhand-grading-guide\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003ehere\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePhoto is of the actual item.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eJan Garbarek \/ Keith Jarrett \/ Palle Danielsson \/ Jon Christensen - \u003cem\u003eBelonging\u003c\/em\u003e | Vinyl LP - 1974 Japanese ECM\/Trio Records (PAP-9011)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKeith Jarrett had been running two parallel careers since the early 1970s: an American trio and solo practice alongside an entirely different quartet with European musicians. He had first noticed Jan Garbarek while touring Europe with Charles Lloyd's group; Garbarek was in George Russell's band. Palle Danielsson and Jon Christensen were the rhythm section of the Garbarek-Bobo Stenson Quartet, whose \u003cem\u003eWitchi-Tai-To\u003c\/em\u003e had been recorded five months before \u003cem\u003eBelonging\u003c\/em\u003e. Jarrett knew exactly what he was assembling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe wrote all six pieces specifically for these four musicians. The structure alternates: a fast piece, then a ballad, then a fast piece on Side A; a short ballad, then a fast piece, then a long ballad on Side B. \"Spiral Dance\" opens with Garbarek's tenor over Christensen's ride cymbal, the band at full tempo from the first bar. \"Blossom\" stretches to twelve minutes, Jarrett's piano sustaining long melodic lines while Garbarek enters on soprano saxophone with a tone closer to a folk instrument than a jazz horn. \"'Long As You Know You're Living Yours\" closes Side A with the kind of propulsive energy that rarely appeared on ECM recordings in 1974.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Belonging,\" the title track, is the album's shortest piece at just over two minutes. It functions as a threshold between the two sides rather than a standalone composition. \"The Windup\" is the hardest-swinging piece Jarrett recorded for ECM, Danielsson's bass walking hard, Christensen driving from underneath. \"Solstice\" closes the album at thirteen minutes. Garbarek's opening soprano note is slightly off pitch, deliberately so, and the piece unfolds from that intentional tension.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eManfred Eicher produced. Jarrett insisted on first takes throughout, and the sense of spontaneity that carries the record is not an illusion. This is the 1974 Japanese Trio Records pressing (PAP-9011).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ECM Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43655653392443,"sku":null,"price":45.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/3203\/3339\/files\/IMG_7296.jpg?v=1781489131"}],"url":"https:\/\/lushliferecords.com.au\/collections\/jon-christensen.oembed","provider":"Lush Life Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}