Magico: Carta de Amor

Magico: Carta de Amor is a live album by saxophonist Jan Garbarek, guitarist Egberto Gismonti and bassist Charlie Haden recorded in 1981 and released on the ECM label in 2012.^[1] The album follows the trio's first two recordings Magico (1979) and Folk Songs (1981).

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]
The Guardian	^[3]

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars stating "Magico: Carta de Amor is a musical treasure trove that features three players from three continents working in near-symbiotic dialogue, offering music that showcases compositional and improvisational mastery, yet transcends the limitations of genre classification".^[2]

The Guardian's John Fordham noted "It's an impassioned and fiercely improvisational collection of variations on powerful themes by all three, touching on Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra repertoire and Garbarek's free-jazz history".^[3]

All About Jazz correspondent John Kelman commented "Carta de Amor is a reminder of how a particular point in time, when the pan-cultural and cross-genre interests of three artists from vastly different backgrounds and musical upbringings, could come together in rare synchronicity".^[4]

Track listing

All compositions by Egberto Gismonti except as indicated

Disc One:

"Carta de Amor" - 7:25
"La Pasionara" (Charlie Haden) - 16:26
"Cego Aderaldo" - 9:50
"Folk Song" (Traditional) - 8:09
"Don Quixote" - 8:25
"Spor" (Jan Garbarek) - 14:01

Disc Two:

"Branquinho" - 7:37
"All That Is Beautiful" (Haden) - 15:35
"Palhaço" - 9:12
"Two Folk Songs" (Traditional) - 3:39
"Carta de Amor, Var." - 7:35

Personnel

Charlie Haden — bass
Jan Garbarek — soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
Egberto Gismonti — guitar, piano

References

↑ ECM discography accessed December 20, 2013
1 2 Jurek, T. Allmusic Review accessed December 20, 2013
1 2 Fordham, J. The Guardian Review, November 2, 2012
↑ Kelman, J. All About Jazz review, October 30, 2012

Charlie Haden
Studio albums	As Long as There's Music (1978) Closeness (1976) The Golden Number (1977) Gitane (1978) Magico (1979) Folk Songs (1979) Etudes (1987) Silence (1987) Dialogues (1990) First Song (1992) Steal Away (1995) Beyond the Missouri Sky (Short Stories) (1997) None But the Lonely Heart (1997) Nocturne (2001) American Dreams (2002) Land of the Sun (2004) Heartplay (2006) Come Sunday (2012)
Live albums	Time Remembers One Time Once (1981) The Montreal Tapes: with Don Cherry and Ed Blackwell (1994) The Montreal Tapes: with Paul Bley and Paul Motian (1994) Night and the City (1996) The Montreal Tapes: Liberation Music Orchestra (1997) The Montreal Tapes: with Geri Allen and Paul Motian (1997) The Montreal Tapes: with Gonzalo Rubalcaba and Paul Motian (1997) In Montreal (2001) The Montreal Tapes: Tribute to Joe Henderson (2004) Magico: Carta de Amor (2012)
Liberation Music Orchestra albums	Liberation Music Orchestra (1969) The Ballad of the Fallen (1982) Dream Keeper (1990) Not in Our Name (2005) Time/Life (Song for the Whales and Other Beings) (2016)
Old and New Dreams albums	Old and New Dreams (1976) Old and New Dreams (1979) Playing (1980) A Tribute to Blackwell (1987)
Quartet West albums	Quartet West (1987) In Angel City (1988) Haunted Heart (1991) Always Say Goodbye (1993) Now Is the Hour (1996) The Art of the Song (1999) The Private Collection (2007)
Related	Discography Josh Haden Spain [band] The Blue Moods of Spain Petra Haden Petra Haden Sings: The Who Sell Out Rachel Haden Tanya Haden Let's Go Sailing The Haden Triplets

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