Cityscape (album)

Cityscape
Studio album by Claus Ogerman and Michael Brecker
Released	1982
Recorded	January 4–8, 1982
Studio	The Power Station and Media Sound Recording Studios, New York City
Genre	Jazz, classical
Length	46:56
Label	Warner Bros. Records
Producer	Tommy LiPuma
Claus Ogerman chronology
Aranjuez (1978)Aranjuez1978 Cityscape (1982) Preludio and Chant (1982)Preludio and Chant1982
Michael Brecker chronology
Cityscape (1982) Cityscape1982 Michael Brecker (1987) Michael Brecker1987

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Allmusic	[1]

Cityscape is an album by the German composer, arranger and conductor Claus Ogerman and the American saxophonist Michael Brecker. It was released in 1982 on Warner Bros. Records.

Reception

AllMusic awarded the album with 4 stars and its review by James Manheim states: "This 1982 collaboration with the late jazz saxophonist Michael Brecker is one of his most successful works, not least because the overlap between the extended harmonies of jazz and the chromaticism of the late German Romantic polyphony in which Ogerman was trained is large enough to allow Brecker to operate comfortably – his improvisations seem to grow naturally out of the background, and the intersections between jazz band and orchestral strings come more easily here than on almost any other crossover between jazz and classical music".^[1]

The composition "In the Presence and Absence of Each Other (Parts 1, 2 and 3)" was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition at the 1982 Grammy Awards.^[2]

Artwork

The album cover features a lithograph by the Ukrainian-born artist Louis Lozowick, called New York (1923).

Track listing

All compositions by Claus Ogerman.

1. "Cityscape"  – 8:46
2. "Habanera"  – 8:06
3. "Nightwings"  – 7:44
4. "In the Presence and Absence of Each Other (Part 1)"  – 8:56
5. "In the Presence and Absence of Each Other (Part 2)"  – 6:48
6. "In the Presence and Absence of Each Other (Part 3)"  – 6:35

Personnel

• Claus Ogerman – arranger, conductor
• Michael Brecker – tenor saxophone
• Warren Bernhardt – keyboards
• Steve Gadd – drums
• Eddie Gomez – bass (on "Nightwings" and "Cityscape")
• Marcus Miller – bass (on "In the Presence and Absence of Each Other (Part 1, 2 and 3)" and "Habanera")
• John Tropea – guitar (on "Habanera")
• Buzz Feiten – guitar (on "In the Presence and Absence of Each Other (Part 1)")
• Paulinho da Costa – percussion (on "In the Presence and Absence of Each Other (Part 1)" and "Habanera")

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