El Juicio (The Judgment)

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El Juicio (The Judgment)
Keith Jarrett's studio album

Publication
(s)

1975

admission

July 8, 9, 15 and 16, 1971

Label (s) Atlantic

Format (s)

LP, CD

Genre (s)

jazz

Title (number)

7th

running time

39:11

occupation Keith Jarrett, Charlie Haden, Paul Motian, Dewey Redman

production

George Avakian

chronology
The Mourning of a Star (1971) El Juicio (The Judgment) Birth (1971)

El Juicio (The Judgment) is a studio album by the American jazz pianist Keith Jarrett . He recorded it with his quartet consisting of Dewey Redman , Charlie Haden and Paul Motian in 1971.

The album

Keith Jarrett (1971)

The album was released as an LP by Atlantic Records in 1975 and consists of a total of 7 tracks with a total length of 39 minutes and 11 seconds.

A short summary of what can be heard on the album is given by Wolfgang Sandner in his Keith Jarrett biography: “Rock sound with Gypsy Moth, as if you wanted to paraphrase the striking piano style of Ramsey Lewis ; Pardon My Rags, a ludicrously fast mixture of ragtime and stride piano by Jarrett; a drum orgy as a pre-judgment atmosphere; finally the title track El Juicio, which begins with criss-cross rhythms that look like sonic lashes towards the end, until everything dissolves in blasphemous laughter and the Piece for Ornette in a long and a shorter version Jarrett on the Soprano saxophone and Dewey Redman on tenor saxophone combined in a complex free jazz duet. ”He does not mention the title" Toll Road ". Another good description of the music on the album can be found at charliehadenmusic.com.

For Keith Jarrett, who in 1967, together with Charlie Haden ( double bass ) and Paul Motian ( drums ), had released his first album as band leader "Life Between The Exit Signs" (Vortex, 1967), 1971 was a very productive and artistically successful year.

Jarrett toured North America and Europe as a sideman of Miles Davis and his group that year and was involved in the recording of (retrospectively) a total of eight music albums by the jazz trumpeter. Between these engagements for Miles Davis (and a few other recordings as a sideman) Keith Jarrett pursued his own artistic projects:

First, he deepened his collaboration and interaction with Jack DeJohnette , whom he had come to appreciate from his time with the Charles Lloyd Quartet and who - like him - was a member of the Miles Davis Group at the time. The biography of Ian Carr tells us: “In early 1971, when the Miles Davis Group was playing for a few days at Shelly's Manne Hole in Los Angeles , a friend from Sunset Studios there offered Jarrett and DeJohnette free studio time so that they could record as a duo. They took drums and percussion as well as electric piano and organ from the club and made the recordings into what would later become an album called " Ruta and Daitya " (ECM, 1973).

Second, Keith Jarrett used the time for further recordings with Charlie Haden and Paul Motian. With Ian Carr we read: “Then on four days in July and one day in August of the same year, Jarrett went into the studio with his trio (Haden and Motian) and, reinforced for the sessions by tenor saxophonist Dewey Redman, and took enough material there for three Atlantic -Albums -  El Juicio, The Mourning of a Star and Birth  - on. That was the hour of birth of Jarrett's quartet, although Redman didn't officially join the group until the following year. ”With his“ American quartet ”, which existed from 1971 to 1976, Keith Jarrett was to record a total of 12 albums during this period.

Thirdly, he signed a recording contract with Columbia Records in the late summer of 1971 : in the fall of the same year he recorded the double album Expectations in different constellations . He had the option of another album and wanted to publish piano solo improvisations on it. In the Columbia Artists Management Hall he played a solo concert, which, however, was classified as a flop by those responsible due to the small number of listeners. George Avakian took on yet another solo concert, the Jarrett in the Mercer Arts Complex in New York's Greenwich Village for the label, but this did not happen because there Jarrett was considered less promising than Herbie Hancock .

Fourthly, after appearances by the Miles Davis Group in Norway , he was disappointed and went to a music studio in Oslo with Manfred Eicher , who had suggested several projects to him by letter, and played his album Facing You (ECM, 1971) there. a. It was the first published album with piano solo improvisations that would make him world famous in the decades that followed. Facing You was also the album that established the longstanding collaboration with ECM Records .

Contributors

Musicians and their instruments

  • Keith Jarrett - piano , soprano saxophone, flute , steel drums , percussion
  • Dewey Redman - tenor saxophone, steel drums, percussion
  • Charlie Haden - double bass, steel drums, percussion
  • Paul Motian - drums, steel drums, percussion

The production staff

  • George Avakian - producer
  • Lew Hahn - recording technology

The playlist

  1. Gypsy Moth - 8:18
  2. Toll Road - 5:44
  3. Pardon My Rags - 2:43
  4. Pre-Judgment Atmosphere - 2:35
  5. El Juicio - 10:22
  6. Piece for Ornette (LV) - 9:16
  7. Piece for Ornette (SV) - 0:12

All compositions on the album are by Keith Jarrett

reception

The evaluation of the album El Juicio (The Judgment) is very different. The album received a very positive rating from The Penguin Guide to Jazz . Here it achieved 4 out of 4 stars. In his review for jazzchronicles.blogspot.de, jazz journalist James Hale said more cautiously: "El Juicio is not without its flaws, but it definitely sounds like a harbinger of great things." And the album only receives 3 out of 5 stars at Allmusic.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Sandner: Keith Jarrett. A biography . Rowohlt, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-644-11731-0 .
  2. ^ Review of the El Juicio album at charliehadenmusic.com. Retrieved February 3, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b c see Keith Jarrett's albums at www.jazzdisco.org. Retrieved February 3, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Ian Carr: Keith Jarrett. The Man and His Music . Paladin, London 1992, ISBN 0-586-09219-6 , pp. 56 : "Early in 1971, when the Miles Davis group was doing a few days at Shelly's Manne Hole in Los Angeles, a friend from the Sunset Studios there offered Jarrett and DeJohnette some free studio time to record as a duo. They took drums and percussion and the electric piano and organ from the club and made a tape of what eventually became an album called Ruta and Daitya. "
  5. ↑ Ian Carr: Keith Jarrett. The Man and His Music . Paladin, London 1992, ISBN 0-586-09219-6 , pp. 56 : "Then on four days in July and one in August the same year Jarrett went into the studio with his trio (Haden and Motian) augmented for the sessions by tenor saxophonist Dewey Redman, and recorded enough material for three Atlantic albums - El Juicio , The Mourning of a Star and Birth. This was the birth of Jarretts quartet, but Redman did not actually join the group until the following year. "
  6. ↑ Ian Carr: Keith Jarrett. The Man and His Music . Grafton, London 1991, ISBN 0-246-13434-8 , pp. 57 .
  7. ↑ Ian Carr: Keith Jarrett. The Man and His Music . Grafton, London 1991, pp. 58 .
  8. ^ Richard Cook, Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings . 9th edition. Penguin, 2008, ISBN 978-0-14-103401-0 , pp. 768 .
  9. ^ Review of the El Juicio album. In: jazzchronicles.blogspot.de. Retrieved February 3, 2017 : "El Juicio is not without its flaws, but it definitely sounds like a harbinger of great things."
  10. ^ Review of the El Juicio album. In: Allmusic. Retrieved February 3, 2017 .