Family Tree

RE-MASTERED AUDIO and NEW PACKAGING ! This album, originally released in 2012, was re-mastered and repackaged in Digifile cardboard format. It includes the original full-color booklet.

The second youth of Oregon, which coincides with their landing several years ago at CAM Jazz, continues to hold great surprises.  The joy of playing together again, serving music, going into the recording studio with the same intensity of their early work, leaves us wonderfully amazed still to this day.  Family Tree is an album that expresses gratitude and reinforces once again the relationship between Oregon and their endless blanket of fans, the faces and people who have made this long journey one of the most exciting musical experiences in the history of modern jazz.  In Oregon’s own words: “Family Tree is dedicated not only to the immediate families of each of us, but also to the extended family of listeners, producers, technicians, and all that have supplied the encouragement and help that  have kept us thriving.  Our dedication to the expansion and improvement of our music-making is the fruit of this care and the trust placed in us.”

The jazz heard in Family Tree has the colors and the aroma of the Mediterranean, a European flow, which gives life to an emotional journey into the world of Oregon.  Endless facets of tone colors that are exalted at the Bauer Studios in Ludwigsburg, Germany—  one of the few recording rooms chosen by CAM Jazz to give life to a trademark that has made its label synonymous with Made In Italy quality.

More than a half century after the first performance by Oregon, this latest work, Family Tree, reminds us once again that, as in reality, the question of time is completely relative.

Originally released in 2012

Recorded and mixed in Ludwigsburg on 24-28 April 2012 at Bauer Studios  Recording & mixing engineer Johannes Wohlleben

Photos by Andrea Boccalini