Track Listing

1. Questar
2. My Song
3. Tabarka
4. Country
5. Mandala
6. Journey Home

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #21449 in Music
• Brand: JARRETT,KEITH
• Released on: 1999-11-16
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Album Description
Japanese only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) pressing. Universal. 2008.

Customer Reviews

A desert island CD.
Difficult as it would be to pick out just one CD from the many I love, if I could only keep one this would definitely be in the running.

The bass and drums form a sympathetic trio with Jarrett, but to my taste the presence of Garbarek is what makes this collection a real winner. His tone and melodic inventions are exquisite.

Years ago I made a top ten list of jazz cds for my friends and this title was number one.

Buy two, one for yourself and one to give to someone you love.

Keith Jarrett on ECM
ECM records has been responsible for making available a wide range of quality music over the years. As a company, they remain a first rate example of people merging commerce with music, while insuring that music of integrity remains their guiding principle.

ECM's early years feature a wide range of jazz and ethnically flavored musical collaborations. The recent years have added strong new music offerings which are influenced by the classical and contemplative worlds.

"My Song" is one of the finest examples of Jazz from the ECM early period. This recording features piano by Keith Jarrett, Saxophones by Jan Garbarek, Bass by Palle Danielsson and Jon Christensen on Drums.

The mood of this recording is one of warm optimism, with a light, free spirited approach that I find to be emotionally open and highly accessible. If you find ECM to be a label whose sonic identity you tend to trust, then you could hardly do better than to purchase and listen to this fine collection of songs.

best album by this particular group
I would not call myself a real fan of the quartet with Garbarek, but I would still rank this as one of my favorite Jarrett albums, and much better than Belonging, which is by the same group. My Song is the most lyrical and melodic of pretty much all his albums in terms of compositions and soloing. Keith Jarrett was playing some beautiful music during this period (1975-77), of which this is a great example, along with the Koln Concert and Kenny Wheeler"s Gnu High. Highly recommended.