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Keith Jarrett: Mysteries

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Label: Impulse! Records
Released: 1976
Time:
 42:41
Category: Jazz
Producer(s): Esmond Edwards
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] Rotation (K.Jarrett) - 11:03
[2] Everything That Lives Laments (K.Jarrett) - 10:04
[3] Flame (K.Jarrett) - 6:10
[4] Mysteries (K.Jarrett) - 15:22

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Keith Jarrett - Piano, Flute, Percussion, Cover Photography
Dewey Redman - Tenor Saxophone, Musette, Percussion
Charlie Haden - Double Bass
Paul Motian - Drums, Percussion
Guilherme Franco - Percussion

Esmond Edwards - Producer
Tony May - Engineer
Tom Wilkes - Art Director

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1976 LP Impulse! 254 642-2
1987 CD MCA Records 254 642-2
 
Recorded at Generation Sound, NYC, December 1975.
Mixed and Mastered at Kendun Recorders, Burbank, California.



Another in Impulse's extensive series of Keith Jarrett Quintet recordings, this CD isn't one of the more coherent products of the run. It opens on a faltering note with the hopelessly diffuse and rambling "Rotation," and "Everything That Lives Laments" doesn't really get going until a lyrical Vince Guaraldi-like statement from Jarrett sets the track in motion. "Flame" is certainly novel, with Jarrett on Pakistani flute and Dewey Redman on Chinese musette, which combined with the percussion makes for a diverting India/Third World jam. The Coltrane-ish 15-minute title track has passages of meditative beauty and others of listless torpor. For completists only.

Richard S. Ginell - All Music Guide



Jarrett had recorded this same piece in 1971, but this version is longer and richer. The opening section, played in a free tempo, takes on a funereal stateliness. The ensemble plays with great control and sensitivity, but the quality of sound Haden extracts from his bass deserves special mention. Then, shortly after the two-minute market, the combo settles into a lilting groove over a quirky six-bar chord pattern, where what sounds like the start of the turnaround (because the listener is expecting an eight bar structure) is actually the return to the top of the form—a clever device that is very effectively employed here. Jarrett would soon leave this band behind, and start afresh with his European quartet, but this recording testifies that his American combo ranked among the finest jazz groups of the mid-1970s.

Ted Gioia - jazz.com, 2007



Mysteries is the fourth album on the Impulse label by jazz pianist Keith Jarrett. Originally released in 1976 it features performances by Jarrett's 'American Quartet' which included Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden and Paul Motian with Guilherme Franco added on percussion. In October 2011, Shades was reissued with Mysteries in a single disc format titled Mysteries / Shades, as part of the Impulse! 2-on-1 series. Both albums were the product of the same  recording sessions. The album was included in the 1996 four disc Mysteries - Impulse Years 1975-76, a box-set which also featured Jarrett's two final albums for Impulse Byablue and Bop-Be.

The Allmusic review by Richard S. Ginell awarded the album four stars stating "The Coltrane-ish 15-minute title track has passages of meditative beauty and others of listless torpor. For completists only." Writing for jazz-com, Ted Giola gave the track "Everything That Lives Laments" a rating of 95/100 and described it as follows: "The opening section, played in a free tempo, takes on a funereal stateliness. The ensemble plays with great control and sensitivity, but the quality of sound Haden extracts from his bass deserves special mention. Then, shortly after the two-minute market, the combo settles into a lilting groove over a quirky six-bar chord pattern, where what sounds like the start of the turnaround (because the listener is expecting an eight bar structure) is actually the return to the top of the form — a clever device that is very effectively employed here... this recording testifies that his American combo ranked among the finest jazz groups of the mid-1970s."

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