{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Guamba | type = Album | artist = Gary Peacock | cover = Guamba.jpg |border=yes | alt = | released = 1987 | recorded = March 1987 | venue = | studio = | genre = Jazz | length = 44:22 | label = ECM | producer = Manfred Eicher | chronology = Gary Peacock | prev_title = Voice from the Past – Paradigm | prev_year = 1982 | next_title = Partners | next_year = 1989 }}
'''''Guamba''''' is an album by American jazz bassist Gary Peacock, with saxophonist Jan Garbarek, trumpeter Palle Mikkelborg, and drummer Peter Erskine, recorded in 1987 and released on the ECM label.<ref name="ECM discography">[http://www.ecmrecords.com/Catalogue/ECM/1300/1352.php ECM discography] accessed September 28, 2011</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Gary Peacock Catalog|url=https://www.jazzdisco.org/gary-peacock/catalog/|publisher=jazzdisco.org|accessdate=23 March 2018}}</ref>
==Reception== The Allmusic review by Ron Wynn awarded the album 4 stars stating "Good late '80s session... The only defect comes from ECM's occasional tendency to introduce New Age themes and production values into the mix".<ref name="Allmusic">Wynn, R. [http://www.allmusic.com/album/guamba-r145301 Allmusic Review] accessed September 29, 2011</ref> {{Music ratings | rev1 = ''Allmusic'' | rev1Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/> |rev2 = ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings'' |rev2score = {{Rating|3|4}}<ref name="Penguin">{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=1137}}</ref> | rev7 = ''Tom Hull – on the Web'' | rev7Score = B+ ({{Rating-Christgau|hm3}})<ref>{{cite web|last=Hull|first=Tom|author-link=Tom Hull (critic)|date=September 8, 2020|url=http://tomhull.com/ocston/blog/archives/2881-Music-Week.html|title=Music Week|website=Tom Hull – on the Web|accessdate=September 9, 2020}}</ref> }}
==Track listing== :''All compositions by Gary Peacock except as indicated'' # "Guamba" - 3:09 # "Requiem" - 7:10 # "Celina" - 4:13 # "Thyme Time" (Peter Erskine, Gary Peacock) - 5:25 # "Lila" - 13:04 # "Introending" - 3:43 # "Gardenia" - 8:07 :*Recorded at Rainbow Studio in Oslo, Norway in March 1987.
==Personnel== * Gary Peacock — bass * Jan Garbarek — tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone * Palle Mikkelborg — trumpet, flugelhorn * Peter Erskine — drums
==References== {{reflist}} {{Gary Peacock}} {{Authority control}}
Category:ECM Records albums Category:Gary Peacock albums Category:1987 albums Category:Albums produced by Manfred Eicher