Solo Concerts: Bremen/Lausanne

Solo Concerts: Bremen/Lausanne is a recording released through ECM by jazz pianist Keith Jarrett performing solo improvisations recorded in Bremen (Germany, July) and Lausanne (Switzerland, March) in 1973; in between, Jarrett played in the US with his American quartet.[2] 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).[3]

Solo Concerts: Bremen/Lausanne
Live album by
Keith Jarrett
Released1973, November [1]
Recorded1973, March 20
1973, July 12
VenueSalle de Spectacles d'Epalinges (Lausanne, Switzerland)
Kleiner Sendesaal (Bremen, Germany)
Genresolo piano improvisations
Length2:08:13
LabelECM Records
[ECM 1035-1037]
ProducerManfred Eicher
Keith Jarrett chronology
In the Light
(1973)		 Solo Concerts: Bremen/Lausanne
(1973)		 Treasure Island
(1974)
Keith Jarrett solo piano chronology
Facing You
(1971)		 Solo Concerts: Bremen/Lausanne
(1973)		 The Köln Concert
(1975)

Reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[4]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[5]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[6]

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".[4] Ted Gioia calls it Jarrett's "masterpiece", "two titanic improvised performances".[7]

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".[8] 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'.[9]

Track listing
Vinyl pressing

All tracks are written by Keith Jarrett.

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."Bremen, July 12, 1973 Part I"18:11
Side two
No.TitleLength
1."Bremen, July 12, 1973 Part IIa"19:40
Side three
No.TitleLength
1."Bremen, July 12, 1973 Part IIb"26:15
Side four
No.TitleLength
1."Lausanne, March 20, 1973 Part Ia"22:50
Side five
No.TitleLength
1."Lausanne, March 20, 1973 Part Ib"7:20
2."Lausanne, March 20, 1973 Part IIa"12:34
Side six
No.TitleLength
1."Lausanne, March 20, 1973 Part IIb"22:35
CD pressing

All tracks are written by Keith Jarrett.

Disc one
No.TitleLength
1."Bremen, July 12, 1973 Part I"18:11
2."Bremen, July 12, 1973 Part II"45:09
Disc two
No.TitleLength
1."Lausanne, March 20, 1973"64:53
Recorded in concert in Bremen on July 12, and in Lausanne on March 20, 1973.

Personnel

Technical Personnel
  • Pierre Grandjean, Alan Kobel - Recording Engineers (Lausanne)
  • Rolf Rockstroh - Recording Engineer (Bremen)
  • Kurt Rapp, Martin Wieland - Remix Engineers
  • Roberto Masotti, A. Raggenbass, Jochen Mönch - Photography
  • Barbara and Burkhart Wojirsch - Cover Design and Layout
  • Manfred Eicher and Keith Jarrett - Production

References
  1. ECM Records Keith Jarrett: Solo Concerts: Bremen/Lausanne accessed May 2020
  2. Elsdon, Peter (2013). Keith Jarrett's The Koln Concert. Oxford: Oxford UP. p. 22. ISBN 9780199779253.
  3. ECM catalogue accessed December 1, 2008.
  4. Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed September 9, 2011
  5. Larkin, Colin (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. ISBN 9780857125958. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
  6. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 112. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  7. Gioia, Ted (2011). The History of Jazz (2 ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 340. ISBN 9780199830589.
  8. Gilmore, Mikal (2000). Night Beat: A Shadow History of Rock & Roll. Knopf Doubleday. p. 213. ISBN 9780385500296.
  9. Dobbins, Bill (2017). "'Nobody Was Looking': The Unparalleled Jazz Piano Legacy of Duke Ellington". In Howland, John (ed.). Duke Ellington Studies. Cambridge University Press. pp. 108–56. ISBN 9780521764049.
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