Solo Concerts: Bremen/Lausanne is a recording released through ECM by jazz pianist Keith Jarrett performing solo improvisations recorded in Bremen (July) and Lausanne (March) in 1973; in between, Jarrett played in the US with his American quartet.[1] Originally released as a 3-LP album, it was the first of Jarrett's live solo performances to be released on ECM, following his studio-based debut solo recording Facing You (1971), and preceding his record-breaking Köln Concert (1975).[2]
Reception
The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 5 stars, stating, "Despite the length, the music never loses one's interest, making this an essential recording for all jazz collections".[3] Ted Gioia calls it Jarrett's "masterpiece", "two titanic improvised performances".[5]
According to Mikal Gilmore in Night Beat, "with Bremen-Lausanne and the subsequent Köln Concert, Jarrett found his niche, freely mixing gospel, impressionist, and atonal flights into a consonant whole".[6] Bill Dobbins notes that the (short) encore on the third side, a boogie-woogie inflected ostinato, owes much to Duke Ellington's New World A-Comin'.[7]
Track listing
- Vinyl pressing
All tracks written by Keith Jarrett.
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1. | "Bremen, July 12, 1973 Part I" | 18:11 |
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1. | "Bremen, July 12, 1973 Part IIa" | 19:40 |
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1. | "Bremen, July 12, 1973 Part IIb" | 26:15 |
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1. | "Lausanne, March 20, 1973 Part Ia" | 22:50 |
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1. | "Lausanne, March 20, 1973 Part Ib" | 7:20 |
2. | "Lausanne, March 20, 1973 Part IIa" | 12:34 |
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1. | "Lausanne, March 20, 1973 Part IIb" | 22:35 |
- CD pressing
All tracks written by Keith Jarrett.
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1. | "Bremen, July 12, 1973 Part I" | 18:11 |
2. | "Bremen, July 12, 1973 Part II" | 45:09 |
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1. | "Lausanne, March 20, 1973" | 64:53 |
- Recorded in concert in Bremen on July 12, and in Lausanne on March 20, 1973.
References
- ↑ Elsdon, Peter (2013). Keith Jarrett's The Koln Concert. Oxford: Oxford UP. p. 22. ISBN 9780199779253.
- ↑ ECM catalogue accessed December 1, 2008.
- 1 2 Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed September 9, 2011
- ↑ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 112. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
- ↑ Gioia, Ted (2011). The History of Jazz (2 ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 340. ISBN 9780199830589.
- ↑ Gilmore, Mikal (2000). Night Beat: A Shadow History of Rock & Roll. Knopf Doubleday. p. 213. ISBN 9780385500296.
- ↑ Dobbins, Bill (2017). "'Nobody Was Looking': The Unparalleled Jazz Piano Legacy of Duke Ellington". In Howland, John. Duke Ellington Studies. Cambridge University Press. pp. 108–56. ISBN 9780521764049.
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