My gateway drug

With "Spiral Dance" I have KJ and JG then met by chance, it was at any sampler. Modern jazz I had by then (1974) almost did not hear, I was at that time rather rock and folk. But this piece was my "gateway drug". From the to get to the good luck to get rid of by hearing the rest of the album; Then, however, addicted to the whole.

Here two master of tension building and its dissolution another. Long-drawn melodies, yet very well tracked, lead to amazingly beautiful phrases, eg "Long as you know ...", minute 4:26 to 4:53, where Keith Jarrett delivers its peak of this album. Otherwise Jarrett falls mostly a rather rhythmic (and harmoniously hauntingly beautiful) game while Garbarek contributes "pop" melodies: and this is meant by and through positive, because the pieces nest by an ear, without being flattened in any way ,

A very sophisticated, yet well listenable album, which is in my "eternal list" very high up. After "My Song" by the same quartet, and you're a jazz fan.