Terje Rypdal/Bergen Big Band: Crime Scene | CD review

(ECM)Four years ago, Terje Rypdal's Vossabrygg marked the Norwegian guitar star's return to a profile he has rarely had since his emergence as an early 1970s ECM artist with one of that iconic company's label-defining sounds. Vossabrygg intentionally drew on Miles Davis's pathfinding fusion venture Bitches Brew – and this disc also features the gifted Miles-inspired trumpeter Palle Mikkelborg and powerful drummer Paolo Vinaccia, with Rypdal regular Stale Storlokken on Hammond B3. Classica...

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