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Keith Jarrett | Bremen-Lausanne
ECM Releases Keith Jarrett’s 3-LP Bremen/Lausanne, Which Documents Two Mesmerizing Solo Piano Concerts from March and July 1973, as Part of the Label’s Luminessence Reissue Series
“The structural coherence of these lengthy improvisations across two one-hour sets is astonishing.” — Pitchfork
“The musical commingling of beauty, strength and precision can be most elusive. When it is accomplished by one man on one instrument without sacrifice or compromise, it can be an act of total interaction between player and listener. And when it is done by an artist of Jarrett’s inventiveness and commitment – and done over the course of a three-record, two-hours-plus album – the emotional sharing can be an incredible experience.”
— DownBeat
Released in a facsimile edition in ECM’s critically lauded Luminessence series, this vinyl triple album conveys the sound of history-in-the-making. Solo-Concerts Bremen/Lausanne documents two mesmerizing 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 note 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, DownBeat and Stereo Review in the US, Jazz Forum in Poland, and Swing Journal in Japan. In Germany, it won the Großer 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 · Solo-Concerts Bremen-Lausanne
ECM · Release Date: October 27, 2023
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