a touch of pop ...

1974 played - as I know, the first time - the four exceptional jazz musician Keith Jarrett, Jan Garbarek, Palle Danielsson on bass and Jon Christensen on drums and percussion together and took in Oslo this excellent album.

the thing has many facets, especially, these are to very catchy compositions (hence the title), but leave the improvisation enough leeway. the musicians all seem to have been anxious to put sophisticated jazz with beautiful tone and insinuating melodies in scene, which could well be any of these except for jazz musicians and his creativity.

Jarrett strums here just as beautiful as the "Köln Concert", Garbarek sets its crystal clear, radiant sax sounds over it, Palle Danielsson plays the restrained but indispensable bass and Jon Christensen produced with his drumset an airy and exhilarating framework of shimmering and sparkling beats.

for lovers of evil music that is perhaps too much to nice sounding disc for me is this perhaps to be heard most easily in the ECM Catalog of, but somehow also the indispensable.

sonically is the thing perfectly, sound and music are virtually non-aged, is the timeless, and always listenable.

Who wants to have it free and dirtier, reach for the live album "nude ants", a very strong disc recorded in NYC in 1979!