George Russell, Jan Garbarek

Trip To Prillarguri is a concert by the sextet George Russell led during his years in Scandinavia, recorded at Estrad in Södertälje, Sweden, in March 1970 and first released by Soul Note in 1982. Four of the five players around the pianist and composer were young Norwegians then at the start of their careers: Jan Garbarek on tenor saxophone, Terje Rypdal on electric guitar, Arild Andersen on bass and Jon Christensen on drums. Tom Hull later described them as musicians "fast on their way to becoming major figures".

The front line is completed by the American trumpeter Stanton Davis, with Russell at the piano and producing the tape himself. The repertoire splits evenly between the leader and his saxophonist: Russell's Souls, Event III and Stratusphunk sit beside Garbarek's Theme, Vips and Esoteric Circle. Event III is a short burst of just over two minutes, while Stratusphunk and Souls each pass eight minutes. The set ends with an eleven-minute version of Ornette Coleman's Man On The Moon. Hull, who made it the pick hit of his Consumer Guide of August 2013 with an A grade, wrote that "Rypdal is terrific, but Garbarek is titanic here, playing with a raw force and edginess that ECM never allowed". He heard that force most on the Coleman finale. Nat Hentoff wrote the liner notes.

This CD is SNGG002-2 in the Golden Gems series of CAM Jazz, issued on Soul Note in November 2016 with remastered audio in a card sleeve with the original colour booklet. The album first came out in 1982 as SN 1029.