Reception

Track listing

All compositions by Edward Vesala except as indicated

1. "Satu" - 14:37
2. "Ballade For San" - 6:10
3. "Star Flight" - 5:42
4. "Komba" - 6:07
5. "Together" (Edward Vesala, Tomasz Stańko) - 7:06
   • Recorded at Talent Studios in Oslo, Norway in October 1976

Personnel

• Edward Vesala
  Edward Vesala
  Edward Vesala , born Martti Vesala, was a Finnish avant-garde jazz composer, bandleader and drummer....
  
   - drums
  Drum kit
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• Tomasz Stańko
  Tomasz Stanko
  Tomasz Stańko is a Polish trumpeter, composer and improviser. Often recording for ECM, Stańko is strongly associated with free jazz and the avant-garde....
  
   - trumpet
  Trumpet
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• Juhani Aaltonen
  Juhani Aaltonen
  Juhani Aaltonen is a Finnish jazz saxophonist and flautist.Born in Kouvola, Finland, he began playing professionally at the end of the 1950s. He played in a sextet led by Heikki Rosendahl during that time, and then studied flute performance at the Sibelius Academy and in the U.S. at the Berklee...
  
   - soprano saxophone
  Soprano saxophone
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  , tenor saxophone
  Tenor saxophone
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  , flute
  Flute
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  , alto flute
  Alto flute
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• Tomasz Szukalski - soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
• Knut Riisnæs - flute, tenor saxophone
• Palle Mikkelborg
  Palle Mikkelborg
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   - flugelhorn
  Flugelhorn
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  , trumpet
• Torbjørn Sunde - trombone
  Trombone
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• Rolf Malm - bass clarinet
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• Terje Rypdal
  Terje Rypdal
  Terje Rypdal is a Norwegian guitarist and composer. Most of his music has been released on albums of the German record label ECM. Rypdal has collaborated both as a guitarist and as a composer with other ECM artists such as Ketil Bjørnstad and David Darling...
  
   - guitar
  Guitar
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• Palle Danielsson
  Palle Danielsson
  Palle Danielsson is a Swedish jazz double bassist born in Stockholm, Sweden, perhaps most notable for his work done with Keith Jarrett from 1974 to 1979, becoming a member of his European quartet for that period.-Career:...
  
   - bass
  Double bass
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