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Keith Jarrett: Fort Yawuh

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Label: Impulse! Records
Released: 1973
Time:
 73:01
Category: Jazz
Producer(s): Ed Michel
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.keithjarrett.it
Appears with: Jan Garbarek
Purchase date: 2015
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] (If the) Misfits [Wear It] (K.Jarrett) - 13:15
[2] Fort Yawuh (K.Jarrett) - 18:22
[3] De Drums (K.Jarrett) - 12:10
[4] Still Life, Still Life (K.Jarrett) - 8:38
[5] Roads Traveled, Roads Veiled (K.Jarrett) - 20:36 *

* - bonus track not on original LP

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Keith Jarrett - Piano, Soprano Saxophone on [1,5], Tambourine
Dewey Redman - Tenor Saxophone, Musette on [2], Maracas, Percussion, Clarinet on [5]
Charlie Haden - Bass
Paul Motian - Drums, Percussion
Danny Johnson - Percussion

Ed Michel - Producer, Reissue Producer
Tony May - Engineer
Woody DeMarco - Editing
Wally Buck - Remixing
Hollis King - Art Direction
Al Kramer - Photography
Edward O'Dowd - Design

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Recorded live at The Village Vanguard, New York City on February 24, 1973. Engineering with the facilities of the Fedco truck and crew. Mix engineering at The Village Recorder, Los Angeles.


On Fort Yawuh, Keith Jarrett is joined by Dewey Redman (tenor sax), Charlie Haden (bass), Paul Motian (drums), and Danny Johnson (percussion) to produce this set recorded live at the legendary Village Vanguard in New York City on February 24, 1973. About two minutes into "Fort Yawuh," Jarrett prepares the listener for a piano solo by announcing himself with quick and sharp keyboard jabs that evolve into spared and beautiful crescendos that before too long involve the soulful wails of Redman on the sax. The following song, "De Drums," is the one track that really swings on this album. Another long one, at 12 minutes in length, "De Drums" is much more focused on a steady and consistent rhythm that is established immediately by a smooth five-note bassline accented by the piano and shakers. Although describable as smooth and cool, this song has a palpable energy perhaps due to the construction of the bassline whose pauses give an enjoyable sense of suspense. A little more than five minutes into this song there is a thematic shift that speeds up the tempo and makes this title swing even more while involving Redman's sax and Motian's drum kit. Half past the eight-minute mark the tempo settles back down to its original drawl, and the song finishes with a lazy bop that makes this the standout track on the album. Fans of Jarrett's avant-garde liberalism will find "De Drums" to be the track most unlike the other four selections on this album. "Still Life, Still Life" is more like a ballad in that it's very slow, but it still maintains the structural freedom featured in the "Fort Yawuh," "(If the) Mysfits (Wear It)," and "Roads Traveled, Roads Veiled."

Qa'id Jacobs - All Music Guide



Fort Yawuh is an acoustic jazz album by American pianist and composer Keith Jarrett. Originally released in 1973 by Impulse! Records, it features a live performance recorded at the Village Vanguard on February 24, 1973, by Jarrett, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden, Paul Motian, and Danny Johnson.

In a contemporary review for Creem, Robert Christgau gave Fort Yawuh an "A–" and said although side one sounded like cluttered free jazz at first, it was highlighted by the Ornette Coleman-like playing of saxophonist Dewey Redman. He found side two more accessible because of drummer Paul Motian's performance during "De Drums" and the attractive composition of "Still Life Still Life". In a retrospective review, Allmusic's Qa'id Jacobs gave the record four out of five stars and wrote, "Fans of Jarrett's avant-garde liberalism will find 'De Drums' to be the track most unlike the other four selections on this album. 'Still Life, Still Life' is more like a ballad in that it's very slow, but it still maintains the structural freedom featured in the 'Fort Yawuh,' '(If the) Misfits (Wear It),' and 'Roads Traveled, Roads Veiled.'" The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide (1985) also gave it four stars.

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