Live album · 1973
Tracklist
A Listen to the Silence - Part One 22:34
B Listen to the Silence - Part Two 22:23
Line-up/Musicians
Bass [Double] – Arild Andersen
Bass [Electric] – Bjornar Andresen
Composed By – George Russell
Conductor – Arnuv Hegstad
Guitar [Electric] – Terje Rypdal
Organ – Webster Lewis
Percussion – Jon Christensen
Piano [Electric] – Bobo Stenson
Saxophone [Tenor] – Jan Garbarek
Timpani – George Russell
Trumpet – Stanton Davis
Voice [Alto] – Joyce Gippo, Kay Dunlap
Voice [Bass] – Dan Windham, Don Hovey, Don Kendrick
Voice [Soprano] – Gailanne Cummings, Sue Auclair
Voice [Tenor] – David Dusing, Ray Hardin
About this release
Concept Records – CR002 (US)
"Listen to the Silence" was commissioned by the Norwegian Cultural Fund for the 1971 Kongsberg Jazz Festival, specifically for performance in the Kongsberg Church in Kongsberg, Norway. This is the "live" recording of the premiere held at the church on June 26, 1971.
The choir is the Chorus of the Musikk Konservatoriet of Oslo with Supplementary Chorus from the New England Conservatory of Music.
Thanks to snobb for the addition
