Terje Rypdal: Odyssey – In Studio & In Concert – review

(ECM – 3 CDs)Norwegian guitarist Terje Rypdal played piano, sax, flute and trumpet as a child – early tone-colour insights that probably laid the foundations for an electric guitar sound somewhere between a flute, a violin and Jimi Hendrix. Aged 28, Rypdal (who played on Jan Garbarek's early albums and was one of the first long-term recruits to the ECM label) formed his Odyssey quintet in 1975, and part of this three-disc set is the band's debut studio album – a mix of dreamy sustain-pedal...

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