Track length: | 21:12 |
Artist: | Keith Jarrett, Jan Garbarek, Palle Danielsson & Jon Christensen |
Performer: | Jon Christensen |
Palle Danielsson | |
Jan Garbarek | |
Keith Jarrett | |
Genre: | Modern |
Publisher: | Cavelight Music |
Composer: | Keith Jarrett |
ISRC: | DEB337929051 |
Track length: | 10:47 |
Artist: | Keith Jarrett, Jan Garbarek, Palle Danielsson & Jon Christensen |
Performer: | Jon Christensen |
Palle Danielsson | |
Jan Garbarek | |
Keith Jarrett | |
Genre: | Modern |
Publisher: | Cavelight Music |
Composer: | Keith Jarrett |
ISRC: | DEB337929052 |
Track length: | 13:26 |
Artist: | Keith Jarrett, Jan Garbarek, Palle Danielsson & Jon Christensen |
Performer: | Jon Christensen |
Palle Danielsson | |
Jan Garbarek | |
Keith Jarrett | |
Genre: | Modern |
Publisher: | Cavelight Music |
Composer: | Keith Jarrett |
ISRC: | DEB337929053 |
Track length: | 28:13 |
Artist: | Keith Jarrett, Jan Garbarek, Palle Danielsson & Jon Christensen |
Performer: | Jon Christensen |
Palle Danielsson | |
Jan Garbarek | |
Keith Jarrett | |
Genre: | Modern |
Publisher: | Cavelight Music |
Composer: | Keith Jarrett |
ISRC: | DEB337929151 |
Track length: | 14:52 |
Artist: | Keith Jarrett, Jan Garbarek, Palle Danielsson & Jon Christensen |
Performer: | Jon Christensen |
Palle Danielsson | |
Jan Garbarek | |
Keith Jarrett | |
Genre: | Modern |
Publisher: | Cavelight Music |
Composer: | Keith Jarrett |
ISRC: | DEB337929152 |
Track length: | 11:15 |
Artist: | Keith Jarrett, Jan Garbarek, Palle Danielsson & Jon Christensen |
Performer: | Jon Christensen |
Palle Danielsson | |
Jan Garbarek | |
Keith Jarrett | |
Genre: | Modern |
Publisher: | Cavelight Music |
Composer: | Keith Jarrett |
ISRC: | DEB337929153 |
Track length: | 7:07 |
Artist: | Keith Jarrett, Jan Garbarek, Palle Danielsson & Jon Christensen |
Performer: | Jon Christensen |
Palle Danielsson | |
Jan Garbarek | |
Keith Jarrett | |
Genre: | Modern |
Publisher: | Cavelight Music |
Composer: | Keith Jarrett |
ISRC: | DEB337929154 |
Keith Jarrett piano
Jan Garbarek tenor and soprano saxophones, flute, percussion
Palle Danielsson double-bass
Jon Christensen drums, percussion
Recorded live April, 1979
An astonishing double-album documentation of a great band at the peak of its powers, “Sleeper” features a complete and previously unreleased concert recording of Jarrett’s ‘European Quartet’, otherwise known as ‘Belonging’, at Tokyo’s Nakano Sun Plaza in April 1979. The pieces played, all composed by Jarrett, are “Personal Mountains”, “Innocence”, “So Tender”, “Oasis”, “Chant of the Soil”, “Prism” and “New Dance”. Exceptional improvisational exchanges, dynamic episodes of surging energy, and lyrical passages of wild beauty abound. The interplay between Jarrett and Garbarek is uncanny and the Danielsson/Christensen rhythm team swings wildly and delightfully. After more than three decades in the ECM archive, this “Sleeper”, newly mixed in Oslo, now awakes in all its glory.
The Belonging quartet came together initially for the album of the same name, and the musical compatibility of its members was instantly striking. Jarrett had been well aware of these musicians since the late 1960s, had played with Palle Danielsson and Jon Christensen in Norway, and his admiration for Jan Garbarek’s saxophone approach had already led him to write the string music of “Luminessence” for Garbarek to play over.
In the five years between the first album and the end of the story Belonging played infrequently enough for Jarrett to tell one journalist that it was less an ensemble than a ‘special event’. The pianist had other pressing demands on his time, then, including tours with a demanding American quartet in the final phase of its existence, and a burgeoning concert life as a popular solo improviser. In between, there was Belonging. Jarrett wrote music for the strengths of the individual players and for the sound they created as a unit, and. the classic “My ...