Four titles of the recorded end February 1974 disc "Treasure Iceland" are gathered on the compilation "The Impulse Story" (a "Best Of" of the American Quartet of Keith Jarrett with recordings for the Impulse! Label) and are then already the better tracks on the album. "The Rich (And The Poor)" with cool, slow, rhythmic groove at the beginning, but somewhat intrusive saxophone towards the end, the short "Blue Streak," the title song "Treasure Iceland" with nice guitar theme of Sam Brown and the Traditional "Yaqui Indian Folk Song "with a great Jarrett composition as" Introduction ", the outtakes for" The Impulse Story "and largely very easy to listen pieces - good jazz all, though nothing earth-shattering. The other four pieces of "Treasure Iceland", however, are further proof that the American Quartet towards the end of its existence produced the most mature music, namely the two ECM albums "The Survivors' Suite" and "Eyes Of The Heart" and the last two plates for Impulse! - "Byablue" and "Bop-Be". On previous albums often dominates the nervous, partly arg oblique sounding saxophone Dewey Redman in combination with Paul Motian overambitious acting drum runs the pieces. In "Treasure Iceland" This is when "Fullsuvollivus (Fools Of All Of Us)" and the tracks 6 and 7 of the case. Especially in "Angels (Without Edges)" in which Keith Jarrett as so often intervenes in the American Quartet and the soprano saxophone, missing a reasonably portable fundamental motive; Instead, determine Again atonal brass tones and too wild piano runs the game. "Sister Fortune" is a somewhat meaningless ending the album on rhythm guitar base. We managed the artwork of the disc with nice drawn treasure map and cool photos.
