I credit this album with helping me survive adolescence, can play it in my head front to back, listened to it 100s of times and as recently as yesterday evening, and if it was not over 20 minutes, I would have them play part III at my funeral. In other words - I quite like it.
Now, here is a quote from the aforementioned Anuoar Brahem
...."In fact, Brahem adds, it felt "very natural" to listen to Jarrett not because of a shared jazz aesthetic but because, to his ears, Jarrett's modal improvisations sounded Andalusian. "I feel that Keith Jarrett is an Oriental musician," he says with a chuckle, noting that the pianist might not agree."
I hear the same .....
