GA Russell Posted February 24, 2021 Report Share Posted February 24, 2021 AVAILABLE NOW FOR PRE-ORDER 40 Years after its Original Release, Keith Jarrett’s Sun Bear Concerts is Recreated from Original Analog Sources for Limited Edition of 2000 Copies Sun Bear Concerts, documenting five complete solo performances by Keith Jarrett in Japan, is a milestone achievement in the history of jazz recordings. As DownBeat wrote on the occasion of the original release, Jarrett’s improvisations are “the inventions of a giant, overpoweringly intimate in the way they can draw a listener in and hold him captive. Jarrett has once more stepped into the cave of his creative consciousness and brought to light music of startling power, majesty and warmth.” Rich in incident and detail, the music is beautifully produced, illustrated, and presented in this ten-LP set. First issued in 1978, it revealed Jarrett as a player of limitless creativity, unique in his ability to find new forms in the moment, night after night. “These marathons showed Jarrett to be one of the greatest improvisers in jazz,” Ian Carr wrote in his biography of the pianist, “with an apparently inexhaustible flow of rhythmic and melodic ideas, one of the most brilliant pianistic techniques of all, and the ability to project complex and profound feeling” continued Carr. The present edition is a facsimile of the original LP set, described by the late Haus der Kunst curator Okwui Enwezor as “part of ECM’s declaration of independence from standard packaging of jazz records. Setting itself apart in this way, ECM treats recordings as works of art by musicians of the highest artistic and conceptual order.” A work of art by any standards, Sun Bear Concerts brings together solo performances in November 1976 in Kyoto, Osaka, Nagoya, Tokyo and Sapporo, in recordings made by Japanese engineer Okihiro Sugano and producer Manfred Eicher, who travelled through Japan with Keith Jarrett. The set’s book-form packaging was designed by Barbara Wojirsch, and includes photographs by Klaus Knaup, Tadayuki Naitoh and Akira Aimi. Keith Jarrett | Sun Bear Concerts ECM | US Release Date: March 19, 2021 For more information on ECM, please visit: ECMRecords.com | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter # # # Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted February 24, 2021 Report Share Posted February 24, 2021 I'll always remember this one as the one that made all but the most adamant Jarrett fans, say uh....REALLY? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felser Posted February 24, 2021 Report Share Posted February 24, 2021 1 hour ago, JSngry said: I'll always remember this one as the one that made all but the most adamant Jarrett fans, say uh....REALLY? I thought "Restoration Ruin", "In the Light", "Luminescence", and "Hymns/Spheres" had already accomplished that... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dub Modal Posted February 24, 2021 Report Share Posted February 24, 2021 Good lord when I read that top post ad from "DL Media Music" I swear I thought it read "Di Meola Music" and wondered if ol' Al had gone into production or publishing too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sambrasa Posted February 24, 2021 Report Share Posted February 24, 2021 Greatest piano solo music Jarrett ever produced, IMHO, and that's no small feat. Much better than the over-hyped Köln Concert. Kyoto and Sapporo are personal favorites. Genius at work. Will skip the vinyl reissue, though. I already have SACD version and am quite happy with that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felser Posted February 24, 2021 Report Share Posted February 24, 2021 43 minutes ago, sambrasa said: Greatest piano solo music Jarrett ever produced, IMHO, and that's no small feat. Much better than the over-hyped Köln Concert. Kyoto and Sapporo are personal favorites. Genius at work. Will skip the vinyl reissue, though. I already have SACD version and am quite happy with that. I think the question with the set was quantity rather than quality. That was well before the box set era we have lived in the past 30 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milestones Posted February 24, 2021 Report Share Posted February 24, 2021 (edited) I'm not a fan of the box set, at least in regard to monster collections of live material or studio sessions from a tightly compressed time frame. I can go for the Mosaic sets (usually previously released stuff from an extended time frame) or diverse compilations like Joe Henderson: The Blue Note Years. Edited February 24, 2021 by Milestones Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted February 24, 2021 Report Share Posted February 24, 2021 10 hours ago, felser said: I thought "Restoration Ruin", "In the Light", "Luminescence", and "Hymns/Spheres" had already accomplished that... Not at all! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom in RI Posted February 24, 2021 Report Share Posted February 24, 2021 In the ‘80’s I used to hit record stores in Boston a lot. There was one in Kenmore Square that labeled the Jarrett section “Jesus Jarrett”, that always gave me a chuckle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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