Oregon (1983)

When you pick up used CDs based solely on the record label, you're bound to win some, lose some. This jazzy world fusion album on the ECM label just doesn't do much for me as a whole.

You wouldn't guess this was an ECM release by looking at that cover art, huh?

Reviews/ratings:

• Billboard: "an auspicious work"
• Downbeat (★★★½): "often music of sonorities, reverberations, and subliminal moods, rather than lyrical melodies."
• The Penguin Guide to Jazz (5th ed., 2000): ★★★
• The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide (1999): ★★★★
• The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz (1999): ★★★

Album chart peaks:

• US Billboard 200: Did not chart
• Billboard Jazz: #21
• CashBox Jazz: #15

Tracks: I enjoy the lead track, The Rapids, but that's about it.

Personal Memory Associated with this CD: None