Waves [Original recording reissued]

Terje Rypdal

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 19, 2001)
• Original Release Date: 1978
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued
• Label: Ecm Records
• ASIN: B0000261JZ
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #183,414 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rypdal's Finest, June 30, 2001

By	Chris Juergens (Portland, OR, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This came out in '78 and pretty much left everything Rypdal had done previously in the dust. Before Waves, Rypdal had spent a few years fine-tuning Miles Davis'jazzfunkfusion legacy (albeit with a pronounced Scandinavian flavor), but Waves is a BIG leap forward, with a truly original & fresh feel & approach. On this record Rypdal's stellar guitar often takes a back seat while trumpet wunderkind Palle Mikkelborg establishes the melodies (Per Ulv and The Dain Curse are a couple of the catchiest melodies in Rypdal's career as a composer)and blows at length. the moody & atmospheric Rypdal we all know & love is here too (Karusell & Charisma)- this record has it all! Jon Christensen on drums is easily up to the challenge throughout. Sveinung Hovensjo on bass is the invisible man here, prefiguring the bass-less lineup on Rypdal's follow up to Waves, Descendre.This record is criminally unknown $ unsung. In my perfect Alternate Universe Terje Rypdal, along with the likes of Frank Zappa and Ralph Towner,is properly acknowledged and revered as the towering guitar master & composer which he truly is in this deeply flawed universe...

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Criminally Overlooked Jazz Rock Stunner, July 28, 2008

By	L. S. Slaughter "silvanus" (Chapel Hill, NC) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The summer I found Rypdal I was also dancing to disco and Sex Pistols, and, yes, it all made sense, while leaving the aformentioned sort of...well, in the dust.

Rypdal's searing Hendrix-esque guitar combined with his tireless, whiplash jazz men was like nothing I had ever heard (and little has matched it since). He had brought the jazz fusion experiments of Miles Davis's electroyears into focus and wedded it to his peculiar Scando-psychedelic world view. "Per Ulv" has a refrain that plays weekly in my head 30 odd years later.

Classic work.

2.0 out of 5 stars Crashes before it sails, March 11, 2010

By	IRate - See all my reviews

2 1/2


Atmosphere defeats substance in middling late seventies fusion, which at best evokes a mild Miles.