"As a companion piece to the live albums Nude Ants and Personal Mountains (both recorded the same year, even though the latter album was only released in 1989), Sleeper offers another noteworthy document of the creative interplay between these four musicians".
"The band made their last studio album, Belonging, on the same trip - this one covers many of the same vivid Jarrett originals, and is the better set. But you don't need to know that history to hear the band's exuberance over Jarrett's teasing yet hard-rocking vamps, Garbarek's brusque power and the rhythm section's energy and freedom".
"En hidtil uudgivet livekoncert med Keith Jarretts 'europæiske kvartet' understreger gruppens betydning som en af de mest indflydelsesrige i 1970'ernes jazz ... Keith Jarrett skrev nogle af sine mest iørefaldende ting til denne kvartet, og med hans frit strømmende spil og Garbareks syngende horn står de den dag i dag som storladent poetiske sange".
DownBeat
2012 November
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Bob Doerschuk
2012 November
"Keith Jarrett performs epics, much as Leo Tolstoy wrote them. His improvisations, solo and in group settings such as on Sleeper, are best appreciated in their entirety".