Release Date: 27 October 2023
Label: ECM
Packaging Type: Box Set
No of Units: 3
Barcode: 602445053254
Genres: Jazz Contemporary
Description
Released in a facsimile edition in ECM's critically lauded Luminessence series, this audiophile vinyl triple album conveys the sound of history-in-the-making. Bremen-Lausanne documents two mesmerising Keith Jarrett solo piano concerts from March and July 1973. These are concerts from the very beginning of Jarrett's solo odyssey and they repay close listening today.
In a shared booklet statement Keith Jarrett and Manfred Eicher write, "We feel that this album is true to itself and the audience from every angle and that our care will provide us with more than equal benefits in our knowledge that we have given you the closest thing to being there."
Fifty years ago reception for the Solo-Concerts music - more than two hours of solo piano improvisations - was overwhelmingly positive around the world: the set was showered in awards and hailed as Album of the Year in Time magazine, the New York Times, Down Beat and Stereo Review in the US, Jazz Forum in Poland, and Swing Journal in Japan. In Germany, it won the Grober Deutsche Schallplattenpreis. The enthusiasm hasn't dimmed - in a recent survey of Jarrett's complete oeuvre in the UK's Mojo magazine, the Bremen-Lausanne box set was voted #1: "This is the ne plus ultra of the solo live Jarrett concert in all its improvisational glory."
Keith Jarrett piano
Tracklisting
Keith Jarrett
Keith Jarrett
Keith Jarrett
Keith Jarrett
Keith Jarrett
Keith Jarrett
Keith Jarrett
Matthieu Bordenave
Arve Henriksen & Harmen Fraanje
Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh & Tyshawn Sorey
Palle Mikkelborg, Jakob Bro & Marilyn Mazur
Nitai Hershkovits
The Gurdjieff Ensemble & Levon Eskenian
Stephan Micus
Arild Andersen Group
