Jarrett Keith

180 gram audiophile pressing.

The Köln Concert - den banbrytande inspelningen av Keith Jarretts improviserade solokonsert på operahuset i Köln - har uppnått legendarisk status sedan den släpptes 1975. Ett ikoniskt album och ett oumbärligt tidsdokument; få liveinspelningar i någon genre har hyllats lika brett. I essän som ingår i 50-årsjubileumsutgåvans omslag diskuteras konsertens sammanhang i detalj. The Köln Concert, inspelad den 24 januari 1975 och ursprungligen utgiven den 30 november samma år, producerades av Manfred Eicher.<br/><br/>För 50-årsjubileet släpps den speciella 2-LP-utgåvan i ett högkvalitativt tip-on-gatefold-omslag med ett fastklistrat 8-sidigt häfte som innehåller en ny essä på tyska och engelska, samt både originalfotografier och nya bilder. Utgåvan inkluderar även ett konsttryck med ett foto och Keith Jarretts tryckta signatur.

Exklusiv trippelvinyl-box i ECMs serie "Luminessence", med Keith Jarretts solopianokonserter från Bremen och Lausanne, 1973, som tidigare givits ut på 2CD. Framröstad i Mojo Magazine som Jarretts solopianoskiva #1 "This is the ne plus ultra of the solo live Jarrett concert in all its improvisational glory."

ECM is particularly pleased to present this two-disc set by one of the most outstanding groups of its era, the group often referred to as 'Belonging' or Keith Jarrett's 'European Quartet', heard here in a previously unreleased concert recording from 1979. After more than three decades in the archive, this "sleeper" now awakes, sounding thoroughly alive and of the moment. <br/><br/>"Sleeper" is a significant addition to the group's small discography, until now comprised of the albums "Belonging" (1974), "My Song" (recorded 1977, released 1978), "Nude Ants" (recorded 1979), and "Personal Mountains" (1979, released 1989). The pieces performed by the quartet on April 16, 1979, at Tokyo's Nakano Sun Plaza were Jarrett compositions - "Personal Mountains", "Innocence", "So Tender", "Oasis", "Chant of the Soil", "Prism" and "New Dance" - all written for this ensemble (in later years, "Prism" and "So Tender" would be reinterpreted by the "Standards" trio), all delivered with enormous verve. This was a group that could play very freely, and joyously, inside the melodic and rhythmic structures set up or implied by Keith Jarrett's writing, with an extraordinary and unforced sense of flow. As Jarrett said at the time: "I myself, as a so-called leader, wish very, very often to blend with the other three musicians and that situation [the Belonging band] allows that, because no one is fighting with anyone else. Everyone is just trying to make the thing transparent and clear and feeling good."

Jarrett Keith: Belonging [Vinyl LP]

Jarrett Keith: At The Deer Head Inn [CD]

Keith Jarrett, piano<br/>Gary Peacock, bass<br/>Jack DeJohnette, drums<br/><br/>Recorded October 1987