Terje Rypdal - Bleak House (1968) [Jazz]
My favorite Rypdal album happens to be his '68 debut, which displayed a tremendous amount of diversity and songwriting savvy unusual even for the late 60's. The title track swings like a sledgehammer, with Terje's guitar guiding that force like a sherpa through the mountainside. The other big star on display is Jan Garbarek on sax and flute respectively, but Rypdal is front and center: the last minute or so he turns up the distortion and heaviness a few notches and it takes the whole cut into unassailable territory...though that status applies to the rest of the record too. Sublime.
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