Famed writer and jazz critic Bill Milkowski said the following about Faces & Places,Surging with pulse-quickening grooves, drenched in Third World exotica, charged with improvisational abandon and teeming with typical machismo, Faces & Places is quintessential Joe Zawinul. The maestro shows no signs of slowing down artistically as he pushes the envelope on this exhilarating ride. Indeed, the everprolific, relestlessly creative synth wizard and bandleader seems to bring his keyboard virtuosity, expansive pan-global vision, and Austrian soul to a laser-like focus on this extraordinary outing.