Le Voyage is the fourth album by Paul Motian

Paul Motian

Stephen Paul Motian was an American jazz drummer, percussionist and composer of Armenian extraction.He first came to prominence in the late 1950s in the piano trio of Bill Evans, and later led several groups...

 to be released on the ECM

ECM (record label)

ECM is a record label founded in Munich, Germany, in 1969 by Manfred Eicher. While ECM is best known for jazz music, the label has released a wide variety of recordings, and ECM's artists often refuse to acknowledge boundaries between genres...

 label. It was released in 1979 and features performances by Motian with Jean-François Jenny Clark and Charles Brackeen.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Don Snowden awarded the album 4 stars stating "Le Voyage is a very reflective, ruminative disc bordering on chamber jazz and marked by that distinctive ECM sound, clean but very distant. It's top-quality music, but look to Dance for more liveliness and ebullience in this phase of Paul Motian's career.".

Track listing

1. "Folk Song for Rosie" - 9:53
2. "Abacus" - 7:16
3. "Cabala/Drum Music" - 6:09
4. "Sunflower" - 8:48
5. "Le Voyage" - 11:12

All compositions by Paul Motian

Personnel

• Paul Motian
  Paul Motian
  Stephen Paul Motian was an American jazz drummer, percussionist and composer of Armenian extraction.He first came to prominence in the late 1950s in the piano trio of Bill Evans, and later led several groups...
  
   - drums, percussion
• Jean-François Jenny Clark - bass
• Charles Brackeen - soprano and tenor saxophones