Keith Jarrett - Arbour Zena (1975)

Front Cover	Album Info
	Artist/Composer Keith Jarrett Title Arbour Zena Length 52:59 Discs: 1 Tracks: 3 Format LQ <160 kbps Packaging Jewel Case Label ECM Cat. Number 825592 Style Free/Avant Jazz Rating N/A Recorded październik 1975

Musicians

Keith Jarrett piano Jan Garbarek sax soprano, sax tenor Charlie Haden bass

Track list

01 Runes 15:24 02 Solara March 09:48 03 Mirrors 27:47

Notes

AMG Review by Richard S. Ginell (3): With saxophonist Jan Garbarek and bassist Charlie Haden along for the ride, Keith Jarrett indulges in three slow, rambling, meditative, vaguely neo-classical concertos for piano and string orchestra. While a few of Jarrett's and Garbarek's passages here and there have a syncopated jazz feeling, this is mostly contemporary classical music, perhaps even somewhat ahead of its time (it might fit in with the neo-Romantic and minimalist camps today). However, although this music can be attractive in small doses, the lack of tempo or texture contrasts over long stretches of time — particularly the nearly 28-minute "Mirrors" — can be annoying if you're not in the right blissful mood. Mladen Gutesha and the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra perform the string parts with what can only be described as commendable patience.