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| ECM Touchstones: Facing You | 
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (based on 12 reviews)
Sales Rank: 13075
Category: Music
Artist: Keith Jarrett
Publisher: Ecm Records
Studio: Ecm Records
Manufacturer: Ecm Records
Label: Ecm Records
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.5 x 0.2
MPN: 001162302
UPC: 602517758452
EAN: 6025177584522
ASIN: B001BOX2Y0
Release Date: August 26, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | In Front | | • | Ritooria | | • | Lalene | | • | My Lady: My Child | | • | Landscape For Future Earth | | • | Starbright | | • | Vapallia | | • | Semblence |
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Product Description
TOUCHSTONES: From ECM's 40 Year History. Specially-priced & newly-packaged! Facing You was Keith Jarrett s first-ever solo recording (1972)
An absolute landmark. A new improvisational language.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 7 more reviews...
Jarrett at his best! December 24, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Facing You was released in late 1971, just shortly after Expectations, which, it turned out, was Jarrett's farewell to electronic music.
This is an album of extraordinary beauty and depth of emotion - all the more so because its pieces are all improvisations. Not the improvisations that unfortunately frequent the later, self-indulgent Jarrett, but full-blown rich compositions which unfold from beginning to end.
Facing You will envelop your soul and take you to places where, on rare occasions, we can experience music playing us.
Anyone who can listen through "Lalene" without feeling inconsolable longing for things lost is probably dead.
If I had to spend the rest of my life on a desert island with only 10 albums, this would be among them.
Timeless! November 25, 2008
In my honest opinion,this is Mr. Jarretts most original solo record to date, his knowledge of the piano shines so bright, the ideas flow with originality and purpose. There is no meandering at the piano waiting for an inspiration like some of keiths other solo piano records. My first introduction to keiths music was the Koln Concert which blew me away but I rarely revisit it as much as facing you. Facing You is probably not as improvised as the others,but it's intent is overpowering.His influences from classical to jazz to gospel,boogie wooogie,stride piano etc. are all on this record. If he stopped here on this record alone, his legacy would have still remained intact to this very day. I'm a jazz pianist and composer and when I'm looking for musical inspiration I always come here. Keith Jarret is a genius at the piano and what he has done in terms of the instrument and improvisation is nothing less than extraordinary. Maybe because I am a musician my standards are a little higher than the average listener, but this record set the standard for me and everthing else pales in comparison, but just a little,very little.
one of a kind November 22, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is the one that started it all, all of what we have come to know of Keith's solo piano work is presented here in a somewhat abbreviated context, but one where every note counts, and there are none wasted. Incredible technique matched with beautiful melodic ideas, strong rhthymic energy, and supported by harmonies that seem otherworldly. All of this and more is Facing You, still one of my favorite Jarrett solo albums, along with Bremen/Lausanne and the recently released Carnegie Hall Concert( which I think is the best). Pianistically he goes where no one dared to go before and 35 years later, this music still has the daring and brilliance that other major artists still can only hope to aspire to.
This album is one of a kind, as is Keith Jarrett.
 Solid Solo Debut June 18, 2006
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Fresh out of Miles Davis' electric menagerie, Keith Jarrett recorded FACING YOU, his first solo piano album, in Norway in the fall of 1971. While less awe-inspiring than later works like THE KOLN CONCERT, it's a strong and wide-ranging collection of mostly rhapsodic original pieces which wander through the musical landscape in the master keyboardist's already-distinctive style and sensibility. Well worth checking out if you're curious; this man doesn't fake it.
What a musical journey May 12, 2005
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Listening the huge and admirable ability to create new harmonies and challenging improvisations of Mr Jarret in this Op 1 let's say one must perceive the first steps in his formidable evolution.
Jarret is by himself an orchestra man. He creates atmospheres with such easiness that you will leave this performing absolutely amazed. All the traxks are the absolute proof to convince about his peculiar conceptions of the jazz.
Go for this album, without reserves.
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