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Keith Jarrett: Personal Mountains

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Label: ECM Records
Released: 1989.06.12
Time:
61:21
Category: Jazz
Producer(s): Manferd Eicher
Rating: *********. (9/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.keithjarrett.org
Appears with: Jan Garbarek
Purchase date: 2001.04.21
Price in €: 15,99



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[1] Personal Mountains (K.Jarrett) - 16:02
[2] Prism (K.Jarrett) - 11:15
[3] Oasis (K.Jarrett) - 18:03
[4] Innocence (K.Jarrett) - 7:16
[5] Late Night Willie (K.Jarrett) - 8:46

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KEITH JARRETT - Percussion, Piano

JAN GARBAREK - Soprano & Tenor Saxophone, Engineer
JON CHRISTENSEN - Drums
PALLE DANIELSSON - Bass

JAN ERIK KONGSHAUG - Engineer
BARBARA WOJIRSCH - Artwork, Layout Assistance
ROSE ANNE COLAVITO - Drawing
MARIA PELIKAN - Translation
PETER RUEDI - Liner Notes

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1992 CD ECM 837361-2
1989 LP Polygram 837361
1989 CD ECM 837361
1990 CD Polygram 837361
2000 CD ECM 837361
1992 CS ECM 837361-4
1994 CS ECM 21382
1989 CS ECM 837361

Concert recording, April 1979, Tokyo. Track [5] is only available on Copact Disc.



It is very much out of character for the prolific Keith Jarrett and his producer Manfred Eicher to hold anything back, yet they've done it here, releasing these live tapes of Jarrett's European quartet ten years after they were recorded. Presumably, they did it in order not to distract attention from Nude Ants, which was recorded a week after these concerts, but that never stopped them before from just piling on more discs. In any case, these Tokyo recordings were too good to hide; the quartet had reached an interactive creative high around this time, often burning at the rarified level that Nude Ants reached. Jarrett is both lyrically effusive and able to ignite his European colleagues into giving him more swinging support than on earlier sessions. In particular, the title track has a lot of the exploratory fervor of "New Dance" from Nude Ants, and "Late Night Willie" gets down deep into the Jarrett gospel feeling. Jan Garbarek is especially forthright in Tokyo on tenor, while his soprano pierces like a beam of sunlight, and Palle Danielsson (bass) and Jon Christensen (drums) are loose, relaxed, and impeccably recorded. Clearly this is one of the peaks of the European quartet's discography.

Richard S. Ginell, All-Music Guide



In the late 1970s, Keith Jarrett was leading both an American quartet and a European one, though the designations referred strictly to the makeup of the groups, not to the venues they played. These 1979 recordings by the European band were made during a tour of Japan. On five of the pianist's tunes, there's exceptional group interaction between Jarrett and Scandinavians Jan Garbarek, on tenor and soprano sax, Palle Danielsson on bass, and Jon Christensen on drums. That interplay shows to best advantage in the extended performances here, the turbulent title tune and the moody, dissonant "Oasis," the group's individual voices coming together in tense, vibrant dialogue. The funky "Late Night Willie" takes full advantage of Garbarek's R&B sound, while Jarrett shines on the luminous ballad "Prism" and the hymnlike simplicity of "Innocence." Personal Mountains is as well sustained as the group's studio set, My Song, or the contemporaneous Nude Ants from the Village Vanguard.

Stuart Broomer, Amazon.com



Einen bereits zehn Jahre alten Schatz hob die Firma ECM aus den unergründ- lichen Tiefen ihres Archivs: Bei einem Konzert in Tokio begaben sich der virtuose amerikanische Pianist Keith Jarrett und der hymnische norwegische Saxophonist Jan Garbarek auf Traumreise. Palle Danielsson (Baß) und Jon Christensen (Schlagzeug) begleiteten die Superstars zurückhaltend, doch intensiv genug.

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Seinen 20. Geburtstag feiert ECM dieses Jahr, und das nimmt Firmenchef Manfred Eicher zum Anlaß, ein Juwel aus dem Archiv zu holen. Keith Jarrett, der sich ewig wandelnde und häutende Pianist, spielte im Quartett mit Saxo- phonist Jan Garbarek, Palle Danielsson am Baß und Jon Christensen am Schlag- zeug einige seiner lyrischsten und zugleich diszipliniertesten Jazz-Aufnah- men ein. Unübertroffen bleibt die erste Studioplatte dieser Formation. "Belonging" von 1974. Doch "Personal Mountains", 1979 in Tokio live mitge- schnitten, zeigt Jerrett gleichwohl in hochsensibler Verfassung als Improvi- sator und Stichwortgeber für einen kraftvollen Garbarek und eine Rhythmus- Sektion, die in der Kunst der gestaltenden Begleitung kaum ihresgleichen kennt. Zart hingetupfte Passagen wechseln ab mit stürmischen Kollektiv- ausbrüchen. Die Aufnahme ist extrem präzise, die CD enthält ein Stück mehr. Jarrett-Kenner werden Vergnügen daran haben, bei den zwei Titeln, die sich mit dem acht Tage später aufgenommenen Live-Doppelalbum "Nude Ants" über- schneiden, die unterschiedlichen Versionen zu vergleichen. *** Bestell.Nr.: Polydor 837 361-2/LP -1

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