Keith's killer quartet (with Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden and Paul Motian) did their most powerful work for the Impulse label, and this 5-CD set presents it in its complete and digitally enhanced form for the first time ever! Nine of the 29 tracks have never been released, and three are classic tracks in their complete, unedited form for the first time. It's Keith Jarrett in his prime!
This comprehensive five-CD set, comprising all four of the pianist's ensemble albums for the Impulse label along with unreleased tracks and extended edits of the original LP versions, sheds light on an earlier, warmer Jarrett, even as he raised his sights toward the Olympian goals of the past quarter century. If Jarrett's work since the '70s has seemed austere and even forbidding in its acute aesthetic, there are moments throughout this generous portrait that attest to a more democratic spirit and more palpable pleasure in his American quartet 's playing, distinguished from his parallel team of Scandinavian partners for his ECM label dates. Then again, with Charlie Haden on bass, Paul Motian on drums, and Dewey Redman on tenor sax, there was ample cause for smiling--this was a world-class group with formidable postbop and avant-garde credentials more than up to Jarrett's technically adroit, musically challenging material. With guitarist Sam Brown and percussionists Guilherme Franco and Danny Johnson augmenting the group at various points, it's a collective that can veer from roiling, free-blown dynamism and easy-rolling gospel syncopations to tremulous, lyrical reveries--all with superb new 20-bit transfer extracts with optimal sonics.
Fort Yawuh
1-1 (If The) Misfits (Wear It) 12:58
1-2 Fort Yawuh 17:41
1-3 De Drums 11:53
1-4 Still Life, Still Life 8:37
1-5 (If The) Misfits (Wear It) 13:24
2-1 Whistle Tune 2:29
2-2 Spoken Introduction 2:12
2-3 Angles (Without Edges) 14:17
2-4 Roads Traveled, Roads Veiled 20:25
2-5 De Drums (Excerpt) 7:27
2-6 Melting The Ice 18:03
Treasure Island
3-1 The Rich (And The Poor) - Take 1.5 9:18
3-2 Blue Streak - Take 3B 2:32
3-3 Fullsuvollivus (Fools Of All Of Us) - Take 3 6:28
3-4 Treasure Island - Take 4A 4:26
3-5 Introduction And Yaqui Indian Folk Song - Take 4 2:15
3-6 Le Mistral - Edited Takes 1 And 2 9:25
3-7 Angles (Without Edges) - Take 1 5:16
3-8 Sister Fortune - Take 3 4:22
3-9 Death And The Flower - Edited Takes 1 And 2 10:02
Death And The Flower
4-1 Death And The Flower 22:46
4-2 Prayer - Take 3A 10:08
4-3 Great Bird - Take 1 8:41
4-4 Prayer -Take 2 2:35
Backhand
5-1 Inflight - Edited Takes 2 And 3 9:06
5-2 Kuum - Take 1 11:36
5-3 Vapallia - Take 1 7:48
5-4 Backhand - Take 1 11:05
5-5 Victoria - Take 1 4:57
