602527945705

Concerts (Bregenz, Munchen)

Keith Jarrett

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Format: 3CD

Cat No: 2794570

Release Date:  11 November 2013

Label:  ECM

Packaging Type:  Box Set

No of Units:  3

Barcode:  602527945705

Genres:  Jazz  Contemporary  

  • Description

    After Bremen/Lausanne, after The Köln Concert, after the epic Sun Bear Concerts, the next development in Jarrett's solo concerts was the all-embracing music captured here. This three disc set could be said to be a culmination of the first wave of Jarrett's solo music. Two improvised concerts from Austria and Germany are featured, recorded respectively at the Festspielhaus Bregenz (on 28 May, 1981) and the Herkulessaal der Residenz, Munich (on 2 June, 1981), venues noted for outstanding acoustics.

    While the Bregenz concert has previously been available as a single CD, and while Jarrett himself included an excerpt from the Munich show in a selection of personal favourites chosen for his :rarum anthology in 2002, this reissue marks the first appearance of the complete Munich performance on compact disc. The 3-CD set includes an extensive text booklet with liner notes by Keith Jarrett, an essay by Swiss critic Peter Rüedi, and poetry by Michael Krüger.

    Jarrett's biographer, the late Ian Carr commented: "The Bregenz/Munich concerts were Jarrett's most brilliant live solo recordings to date; his level of inspiration is quite extraordinary, and the music covers a wider musical and emotional range than ever. He takes fabulous risks, pushing everything to the limit."

    When these recordings were first released on LP in the early 80s, The Guardian said: "This latest chapter of his prodigious output brings the Afro-American and European improvising traditions together, without effort and with complete conviction. It's a remarkable tour-de-force which moves through the blues, Erik Satie, stride expressionism, bop and baroque."

    The CD reissue of Concerts: Bregenz/München is released simultaneously with another but very different Jarrett album, No End on which the pianist forsakes his usual instrument for electric guitar and percussion.

    Personnel: Keith Jarrett (piano)

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Bregenz, May 28, 1981, Part I
      • 2. Part II
      • 3. Untitled
      • 4. Heartland

      Disc 2

      • 1. München, June 2, 1981, Part I
      • 2. Part II

      Disc 3

      • 1. München, June 2, 1981, Part III
      • 2. Part IV
      • 3. Mon Coeur Est Rouge
      • 4. Heartland