Arbour Zena

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Arbour Zena
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Studio album by
Keith Jarrett
ReleasedMay 1976 (1976-05) [1]
RecordedOctober 1975 [1]
StudioTonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg, West Germany [1]
Genre
Length53:01
Label ECM
Producer Manfred Eicher
Keith Jarrett chronology
Back Hand
(1975)		Arbour Zena
(1976)		 Mysteries
(1976)
Keith Jarrett orchestral works chronology
Luminessence
(1975)		Arbour Zena
(1976)		 The Celestial Hawk
(1980)

Arbour Zena is an orchestral work composed by American jazz pianist Keith Jarrett which was recorded in October 1975 and released by ECM the following year. The trio features saxophonist Jan Garbarek and bassist Charlie Haden backed by members of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Mladen Guteša. [1]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [4]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Tom Hull B− [6]

Reviewing the album for AllMusic, Richard S. Ginell awarded the album 3 stars and said, "although this music can be attractive in small doses, the lack of tempo or texture contrasts over long stretches of time—particularly the nearly 28-minute "Mirrors"—can be annoying if you're not in the right blissful mood." [2]

Reviewing the album for the website All About Jazz , John Kelman said:

Jarrett had already released music more aligned with the classical sphere on 1974's In the Light , which contained works for string quartet and brass quintet, a fughata for harpsichord and more; but it was with Arbour Zena—reuniting the pianist with the string section Stuttgart's Südfunk Symphony Orchestra and conductor Mladen Gutesha (who'd performed In the Light's "Metamorphosis")—that Jarrett found the magic nexus between composition and improvisation, both through his own contributions on piano and with the participation of Haden and saxophonist Jan Garbarek, also making the record an even broader marriage of his European and American concerns. [7]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Keith Jarrett.

Side A
No.TitleDedicated toLength
1."Runes"The unknown15:26
2."Solara March" Pablo Casals and the sun9:44
Side B
No.TitleDedicated toLength
1."Mirrors"Jarrett's teachers27:50
Total length:53:01

Personnel

Technical personnel

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Arbour Zena". ECM Records . Retrieved November 19, 2025.
  2. 1 2 Ginell, R. S. Allmusic Review accessed April 22, 2010
  3. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. ISBN   9780857125958 . Retrieved May 1, 2019.
  4. ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 771. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0 – via Internet Archive.
  5. ↑ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 112. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
  6. ↑ Hull, Tom (February 28, 2018). "Streamnotes". Tom Hull – on the Web. Retrieved July 9, 2020.
  7. ↑ Jazz, All About (February 28, 2014). "Keith Jarrett: Keith Jarrett: Arbour Zena". All About Jazz. Retrieved January 25, 2019.
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