The latest version of the Jan Garbarek Group releases its debut album Dresden in September which will be Garbarek’s first-ever live album issued under his own name. The double album features the great Norwegian saxophonist, who also plays silje flute on the album, with longstanding group member Rainer Brüninghaus on piano and keyboards plus new recruits, Brazilian bassist Yuri Daniel, and French drummer Manu Katché.

The album was recorded at Dresden’s Alte Schlachthof in October 2007 and is the first-ever live album to be issued under Jan Garbarek’s name, according to his label ECM. It follows on from In Praise of Dreams from five years ago. Produced by Garbarek and Manfred Eicher for ECM tracks are L Shankar’s ‘Paper Nut’, Garbarek’s ‘The Tall Tear Trees’, ‘Heitor’, ‘Twelve Moons’, Harald Saeverud’s ‘Rondo Amoroso (arranged by Garbarek), Yuri Daniel’s ‘Tao’, Milton Nascimento’s ‘Milagre Dos Peixes’ and on the second disc Garbarek tunes ‘There Were Swallows’, ‘The Reluctant Saxophonist’, Rainer Brüninghaus’ ‘Transformations’, Garbarek’s ‘Once I Dreamt A Tree Upside Down’, ‘Fugi’, ‘Maracuja’, Manu Katché’s ‘Grooving Out!’ and Garbarek’s ‘Nu Bein’ and ‘Voy Cantando’.