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Jan-e Oshagh (Persian: جان عشاق) is a Persian traditional music album performed by Mohammad Reza Shajarian with the collaboration of Parviz Meshkatian, [1] Dariush Pirniakan, [2] Javad Maroufi, and Mohammad Reza Darvishi. The album was recorded in 1985 and released in 1995 by Del Avaz Company. [3]
Garg has recorded more than 38,000 songs in 40 different languages in the past 32 years. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He records more than 800 songs every year [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and has recorded 36 songs in a night. [ 5 ] [ 6 ]
Jan Garbarek – soprano and tenor saxophones, synthesizers, sampler, percussion Rainer Brüninghaus – piano (Disc One tracks 4, 6 & 7), keyboards (Disc One tracks 3 & 6, Disc Two tracks 2 & 7) Eberhard Weber – bass (Disc One tracks 3, 4, 6, & 7, Disc Two tracks 2 & 7)
It peaked at number 4 in the United States, along with many other international charts. The album's lead single, " Just Because ", became their first appearance on the Billboard Hot 100 . The song also became their first Top 5 on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, as well as their third number one on the Alternative Songs chart.
Jan was born to Jan Ješek Ptáček of Pirkštejn likely in 1388, given that some sources declare that he came of age in 1406. He inherited the name "Ptáček", or "Birdie", from his father. [5] Jan was a minor when his father died at the end of the 14th century. Consequently, Henry III of Lipá became his guardian. [6]
AllMusic awards the album with 3½ stars and Richard S. Ginell's review says: "Recorded in a heavily reverberant Austrian monastery, the voices sometimes develop in overwhelming waves, and Garbarek rides their crest, his soprano saxophone soaring in the monastery acoustic, or he underscores the voices almost unobtrusively, echoing the voices, finding ample room to move around the modal ...
The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow states, "A fairly sleepy ECM date ... the music has plenty of space, is introspective, and often emphasizes long tones." [2]Awarding the album four stars out of four, The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings describes it as “a small masterpiece, dominated by one long track.” [4]
Susan Douglas and Jan Rubeš singing Czech folk songs, 1953. Rubeš was born in Volyně, Czechoslovakia, to Ružena (née Kellnerová) and Jan Rubeš. [3] Not long after World War II, he graduated from the Prague Conservatoire and joined the Prague Opera House as a bass singer.