''Open Land'' is an album by American jazz guitarist John Abercrombie recorded in September 1998 and released on ECM June the following year. The sextet features trumpeter

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, saxophonist

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, violinist

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, organist Dan Wall, and drummer

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.ECM discography
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Reception

The

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review by Richard S. Ginell called the album "an absorbing set of elegantly textured, poly-styled music laced with his drifting, occasionally jagged yet never overbearing guitar."Ginell, R. S
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'' stated: "Like most current ECM sets, this feels very much like a collaborative project rather than a leader-plus-group; but Abercrombie does seem firmly, quietly in charge here, steering the performances in his distinctive hard to define way."

Track listing

Personnel

* John Abercrombie – guitar *

– trumpet, flugelhorn *

– tenor saxophone *

– violin *

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–

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– drums

References

{{Authority control ECM Records albums John Abercrombie (guitarist) albums 1999 albums Albums produced by Manfred Eicher