Desert Marauders is an album by Art Lande and Rubisa Patrol in June 1977 and released on ECM the following year. The quartet features trumpeter Mark Isham and rhythm section Bill Douglass and Kurt Wortman.[1]

Desert Marauders
Studio album by
Art Lande and Rubisa Patrol
Released1978
RecordedJune 1977
GenreJazz
Length38:35
LabelECM 1106
ProducerManfred Eicher
Art Lande chronology
The Eccentricities of Earl Dant
(1977)
Desert Marauders
(1978)
The Story of Ba-Ku
(1978)

Reception edit

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic     [2]

The AllMusic review by Michael G. Nastos awarded the album 3 stars stating "This is solid, contemporary improvisational music, a touch laidback, and makes one wish this ensemble would have carried on. They were special."[2]

Track listing edit

All compositions by Art Lande except as indicated
  1. "Rubisa Patrol" - 15:57
  2. "Livre (Near the Sky)" (Mark Isham) - 3:54
  3. "El pueblo de las vacas tristes" - 5:50
  4. "Perelandra" - 4:29
  5. "Sansara" - 8:25

Personnel edit

Art Lande and Rubisa Patrol edit

References edit

  1. ^ ECM discography Archived 2012-10-06 at the Wayback Machine accessed September 9, 2011
  2. ^ a b Nastos, M. G. Allmusic Review accessed September 9, 2011