With "Personal Mountains", "Nude Ants" and "Sleeper", there are three live albums of Keith Jarrett's European Quartet, all of which during the last tour of the band in April and May in 1979 by Japan and the "Village Vanguard" club in New York recorded. On the one hand great for purists and collectors, he can compare different versions of the same title with one another, facing the atmosphere in a large concert hall in Japan the mood in the small "Village Vanguard" club, where the pieces for "Nude Ants" played were, or check the recording quality here and there. Why not instead, but at ECM still older recordings of the European Quartet published in which about legendary studio classics like "The Windup", "Country", "My Song", "'Long As You Know You're Living Yours" or "The Journey Home" was played, the Jazz friend asks sure vain. You get such recordings as bootleg, but very cumbersome and in modest sound quality. "Nude Ants" was released as the first live album of the European Quartet. It contains two CDs six titles of up to 30 minutes duration. This is despite the magnificence of the music and the class of the musicians the shortcoming of this disc: Partially individual motifs are overwrought; the common thread of pieces lost. In "Chant Of The Soil", the opener, which starts very cool and with a driving groove, which is like a long drums solo by Jon Christensen and Jan Garbarek Sax can shred something the piece before the end the issue is rediscovered , In the longest piece "Oasis" there is next stronger passages too long phases of searching, of trial, also the erring around, in the meantime, the voltage to the track. In "Personal Mountains" "Oasis" is played significantly more concentrated. Nevertheless, there are the "Nude Ants" many very strong passages, of course, in the very long pieces. "Processional" as containing a Jarrett solo in the style of "Dark Intervals" pieces and "Innocence" is a thoroughly great number in which Garbarek's saxophone wonderfully unobtrusive pauses the melody. Something "exhausting", however, is Garbarek final solo in "New Dance" and also the Closer "Sunshine Song" has got a bit bland. Nevertheless, a total of a four Sterner!