Sun Bear Concerts (Live)
Keith Jarrett
Available in 96 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
1.1
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Kyoto - November 5, 1976, Pt. 1 (Live)
Keith Jarrett |
44:24 | |||
1.2
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Kyoto - November 5, 1976, Pt. 2 (Live)
Keith Jarrett |
35:25 | |||
1.3
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Osaka - November 8, 1976, Pt. 1 (Live)
Keith Jarrett |
39:01 | |||
1.4
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Osaka - November 8, 1976, Pt. 2 (Live)
Keith Jarrett |
31:08 | |||
1.5
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Nagoya - November 12, 1976, Pt. 1 (Live)
Keith Jarrett |
36:03 | |||
1.6
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Nagoya - November 12, 1976, Pt. 2 (Live)
Keith Jarrett |
44:18 | |||
1.7
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Tokyo - November 14, 1976, Pt. 1 (Live)
Keith Jarrett |
40:40 | |||
1.8
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Tokyo - November 14, 1976, Pt. 2 (Live)
Keith Jarrett |
44:04 | |||
1.9
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Sapporo - November 18, 1976, Pt. 1 (Live)
Keith Jarrett |
41:16 | |||
1.10
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Sapporo - November 18, 1976, Pt. 2 (Live)
Keith Jarrett |
45:35 | |||
Digital Booklet
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Sun Bear Concerts - documenting five complete solo performances by Keith Jarrett in Japan - counts as a milestone achievement in the history of jazz recording. As Down Beat wrote, on the occasion of the original release, Jarrett’s improvisations are “the inventions of a giant, overpoweringly intimate in the way they can draw a listener in and hold him captive. Jarrett has once more stepped into the cave of his creative consciousness and brought to light music of startling power, majesty and warmth.”
Rich in incident and detail, the music in this beautifully produced set, first issued in 1978, revealed Jarrett as a player of limitless creativity, unique in his ability to find new forms in the moment, night after night. “These marathons showed Jarrett to be one of the greatest improvisers in jazz,” Ian Carr wrote in his biography of the pianist, “with an apparently inexhaustible flow of rhythmic and melodic ideas, one of the most brilliant pianistic techniques of all, and the ability to project complex and profound feeling.”
The present edition is a facsimile of the original LP set, described by the late Haus der Kunst curator Okwui Enwezor as “part of ECM’s declaration of independence from standard packaging of jazz records. Setting itself apart in this way, ECM treated its recordings as works of art by musicians of the highest artistic and conceptual order.”
A work of art by any standard, Sun Bear Concerts brings together solo concerts in November 1976 in Kyoto, Osaka, Nagoya, Tokyo and Sapporo, in recordings made by Japanese engineer Okihiro Sugano and producer Manfred Eicher, who travelled through Japan with Keith Jarrett.
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – ECM Records Studio Masters
Tracks 1-10 – contains high-resolution digital transfers of material originating from an analogue master source
Tracks 1-10 – contains high-resolution digital transfers of material originating from an analogue master source
Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -0.92 -1.13 to -0.70 | -22.41 -23.73 to -20.71 | -18.07 -19.60 to -16.70 | 14 12 to 15 | |
1 | Kyoto - November 5, 1976, Pt. 1 (Live) | -1.01 | -21.87 | -18.0 | 13 |
2 | Kyoto - November 5, 1976, Pt. 2 (Live) | -0.95 | -20.71 | -16.7 | 12 |
3 | Osaka - November 8, 1976, Pt. 1 (Live) | -1.13 | -22.15 | -17.8 | 13 |
4 | Osaka - November 8, 1976, Pt. 2 (Live) | -0.86 | -23.33 | -18.5 | 14 |
5 | Nagoya - November 12, 1976, Pt. 1 (Live) | -0.91 | -22.66 | -18.0 | 14 |
6 | Nagoya - November 12, 1976, Pt. 2 (Live) | -0.94 | -23.73 | -18.3 | 14 |
7 | Tokyo - November 14, 1976, Pt. 1 (Live) | -0.92 | -23.72 | -19.6 | 15 |
8 | Tokyo - November 14, 1976, Pt. 2 (Live) | -0.94 | -22.15 | -17.7 | 13 |
9 | Sapporo - November 18, 1976, Pt. 1 (Live) | -0.70 | -21.89 | -17.9 | 13 |
10 | Sapporo - November 18, 1976, Pt. 2 (Live) | -0.88 | -21.92 | -18.2 | 14 |