Keith Jarrett: No End
Recorded at his home studio in 1986,
No End illuminates hitherto
undocumented aspects of Keith Jarretts music. He is heard here on
electric guitars, electric bass, drums and percussion, overdubbing
tribal dances of his own devising: Somehow something happened during
these days in the 80s that wont ever be repeated, he writes in his
liner notes. There was really, to my knowledge, no forethought or
composition in the typical sense going on; just a feeling or a
rhythmic idea or a bass line concept or melody. None of this was written
down. On the instrumentation: Drums were always with me in some way,
Jarrett reflects. I have always been drawn to instruments that you
touch directly, without a mechanism in between. Therefore, I cannot say
that I have ever loved the piano as much as the drums or guitar. With,
primarily, these instruments (piano this time has only a cameo role)
Jarrett has shaped one of his most unusual albums.
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Keith Jarrett: Concerts - Bregenz / München
The Bregenz/Munich concerts were Jarretts 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. Jarrett biographer Ian Carr
After
Bremen/Lausanne after
The Köln Concert, after the epic
Sun Bear Concerts,
the next development in Jarretts solo concerts was the all-embracing
music captured here. Two 1981 improvised concerts from Austria and
Germany are featured, recorded respectively at the Festspielhaus Bregenz
and the Herkulessaal Munich, venues noted for outstanding acoustics.
While the Bregenz concert has hitherto been available as a single CD,
this set marks the first appearance of the complete Munich performance
on compact disc. The 3-CD set includes extensive text booklet with liner
notes by Keith Jarrett, an essay by Swiss critic Peter Rüedi, and
poetry by Michael Krüger.