Sun Bear Concerts

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Sun Bear Concerts
Keith Jarrett's live album

Publication
(s)

1978

admission

November 5-18, 1976

Label (s) Edition of Contemporary Music (ECM)

Format (s)

10-LP-Set (1978), 6CD-Boxset (1989)

Genre (s)

jazz

Title (number)

10 (1978), 13 (1989)

occupation Keith Jarrett

production

Manfred Eicher

Location (s)

Kyoto, Osaka, Nagoya, Tokyo and Sapporo

chronology
Bop-Be (1976) Sun Bear Concerts Ritual (1977)

Sun Bear Concerts is a jazz album by the American pianist Keith Jarrett .

album

Recording and publication

Keith Jarrett (1971)

The album features solo improvisations Jarrett, the concerts on November 5, 1976 in Kyoto , November 8, 1976 in Osaka , on 12 November 1976 in Nagoya , November 14, 1976 in Tokyo in and on 18 November 1976 Sapporo recorded .

It was released in 1978 on ECM Records as a 10-LP set and in 1989 as a 6-CD box set. In addition to the concert recordings, the box set contains encores by Jarrett from the concerts in Sapporo, Tokyo and Nagoya.

Response to the publication

The scope of the publication - after all, Manfred Eicher's "company ECM had brought out a product with the ten-record box of the Sun Bear Concerts , the dimensions of which in the phono industry had only been reserved for the works of Beethoven or Mozart " - resolved at the end of the 1970s Years of "initially collective head-shaking". “The industry wanted to see it as an economic suicide, but the listeners and record buyers decided differently. The ten records and six CDs have long been given the historical significance that this mammoth company ... deserves. "

Contributors

Musician and instrument

  • Keith Jarrett - piano

Production staff

  • Okihiko Sugano - recording technique
  • Shinji Ohtsuka - recording technique
  • Barbara Wojirsch - Design
  • Manfred Eicher - producer

Track list

CD 1

  1. Kyoto, November 5, 1976, Part 1 - 43:49
  2. Kyoto, November 5, 1976, Part 2 - 34:03

CD 2

  1. Osaka, November 8, 1976, Part 1 - 38:53
  2. Osaka, November 8, 1976, Part 2 - 31:09

CD 3

  1. Nagoya, November 12, 1976, Part 1 - 35:30
  2. Nagoya, November 12, 1976, Part 2 - 39:55

CD 4

  1. Tokyo, November 14, 1976, Part 1 - 40:19
  2. Tokyo, November 14, 1976, Part 2 - 35:21

CD 5

  1. Sapporo, November 18, 1976, Part 1 - 40:59
  2. Sapporo, Nov. 18, 1976, Part 2 - 33:55

CD 6 (bonus tracks if re-released on CD)

  1. Encores: Sapporo - 10:48
  2. Encores: Tokyo - 8:16
  3. Encores: Nagoya - 4:02

reception

The review by Richard S. Ginell at Allmusic awards 4 out of 5 stars with the following rating: "Sun Bear does not bring anything new compared to his previous solo piano albums, but is quite inventive in Jarrett's personal playing style."

Jazzecho magazine writes: “Keith Jarrett's ' Sun Bear Concerts ' are without a doubt one of the most monumental works that have ever been documented on phonogram. ... A musician's improvisational resources had never before (and never since) been the subject of such exhaustive scrutiny. ... Even today the persistence of his ingenuity and the breadth of his melodic imagination astonishes you. Even the passages with emphatic ostinati that Jarrett sprinkles in between to create new ideas have a hypnotic power and motivic value. ... And each of these concerts had an unmistakably unique character. "

British trumpeter and jazz journalist Ian Carr is quoted by Jazzecho magazine as saying: "'These marathons proved that Jarrett is one of the greatest improvisers in jazz ... He obviously has an inexhaustible flow of rhythmic and melodic ideas, one of the most brilliant pianistic Techniques in general and the ability to articulate complex and profound feelings. '"

For Uwe Andresen, the Sun Bear Concerts show “in their entirety ... what incredible achievements” Keith Jarrett “is capable of, what musical power he has at his disposal. Each of these concerts has its bright and dark sides, has high points and deep holes. The type or sum of the highlights is not important; for they remain - as in life - only extremely fleeting experiences. Rather, what matters is that Jarrett repeats the highs and crashes in every concert. There are always new heights, no repetitions. And there are always new crashes, not planned, but probably inevitable. ... It's a world that Jarrett is building here. And you can always live well in it. "

And Wolfgang Sandner says: “Anyone who up until then did not want to believe that Keith Jarrett would develop his game from scratch every evening, could take object lessons in these five documented concerts. ... The Sun Bear Concerts are the document of an almost inexhaustible musical fantasy that actually only needs a third to ignite and meditate on it. "

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Sun Bear Concerts at www.ecmrecords.com. Retrieved May 22, 2018 .
  2. ^ Keith Jarrett, Sun Bear Concerts. In: discogs.com. Retrieved May 23, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b c Wolfgang Sandner: Keith Jarrett. A biography . Rowohlt, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-644-11731-0 .
  4. ^ A b Sun Bear Concerts. In: discogs.com. Retrieved May 26, 2018 .
  5. ^ Sun Bear Concerts (CD). In: discogs.com. Retrieved May 26, 2018 .
  6. ↑ AllMusic Review by Richard S. Ginell. In: allmusic.com. Retrieved on May 22, 2018 (English): "While Sun Bear breaks little ground that his earlier solo piano albums had not already covered, it is nevertheless richly inventive within Jarrett's personal parameter of idioms."
  7. ^ A b Keith Jarrett - Sun Bear Concerts. In: jazzecho.de. Retrieved May 22, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Uwe Andresen: Keith Jarrett. His life, his music, his records . Oreos, Gauting-Buchendorf 1985, ISBN 3-923657-09-9 .