Odyssey: In Studio & In Concert (1976)

The electric guitar innovator in the 1970s. This box set in ECMs Old & New Masters Series collects Terje Rypdals two-LP Odyssey album heard on CD, for the first time, in its entirety, including the much-requested and epically-rocking Rolling Stone and "Unfinished Highballs", a recently unearthed 1976 radio recording that documents the Norwegian guitarists work for his Odyssey quartet and the Swedish Radio Jazz Group. The complete Odyssey may address a longstanding demand, but Unfinished Highballs will surprise even Rypdals most committed fans. It reveals that not only were many of the markers which would come to define his career already in place, but the intrepid guitarist was already searching for ways to include, rather than exclude, in his approach to composition and performance. (bron: ECM) "A magnificant effort that combines crushingly powerful rock/jazz ("Over Bierkerot" is a killer) with long, brooding electric ruminations." (Michael P. Dawson, Allmusic)