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Track List
01) Spirits 1
02) Spirits 2
03) Spirits 3
04) Spirits 4
05) Spirits 5
06) Spirits 6
07) Spirits 7
08) Spirits 8
09) Spirits 9
10) Spirits 10
11) Spirits 11
12) Spirits 12
Cd 2
01) Spirits 13
02) Spirits 14
03) Spirits 15
04) Spirits 16
05) Spirits 17
06) Spirits 18
07) Spirits 19
08) Spirits 20
09) Spirits 21
10) Spirits 22
11) Spirits 23
12) Spirits 24
13) Spirits 25
14) Spirits 26
01) Spirits 1
02) Spirits 2
03) Spirits 3
04) Spirits 4
05) Spirits 5
06) Spirits 6
07) Spirits 7
08) Spirits 8
09) Spirits 9
10) Spirits 10
11) Spirits 11
12) Spirits 12
Cd 2
01) Spirits 13
02) Spirits 14
03) Spirits 15
04) Spirits 16
05) Spirits 17
06) Spirits 18
07) Spirits 19
08) Spirits 20
09) Spirits 21
10) Spirits 22
11) Spirits 23
12) Spirits 24
13) Spirits 25
14) Spirits 26
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1986
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Spirits is a double album by Keith Jarrett on which he does not perform solo piano, jazz standards or the kind of music he is usually known for. Instead he performs vocals, guitar, glockenspiel, soprano saxophone, recorder, piano, tabla, flutes and percussion on multiple tracks that were recorded at his home studio (aka Cavelight Studios) in New Jersey. It was released by ECM Records in 1986 and Jarrett dedicated it to his wife Rose Ann Colavito.
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Among mixed enthusiasm after such a different output in Jarrett's previous production, the Rough Guide to Jazz states :
"The process of creating this home-recorded "ethnic" music helped Jarrett weather his crisis and get back to full music-making. The music on this two-disc set has its own direct depth and beauty -the glorious rhythm and Pakistani flute on 'Spirits 21' for example, or the liturgical vocal drones and haunting soprano saxophone on 'Spirits 17'- but also stands as a record of a unique revelatory experience."
According to Tom Moon at NPR the album is "an experimental (and unfairly disregarded) transfixing two-disc vision quest recorded between May and July 1985 by Jarrett alone in a studio in New Jersey".
While Allmusic review by non-jazz or "ethno" music specialist, The Tina Turner Story author Ron Wynn awarded the album 3 stars, calling it, "More a technical showcase than a musically worthy enterprise", other views have contested those claims as "incompetent".
In 2002, on occasion of the double CD "Rarum: Selected Recordings of Keith Jarrett" release (which contains Spirits #2, #13, #16, #20 and #25) a "Various All About Jazz staff members" review states that the tracks belonging to "Spirits, a totally flat overdubbed solo record from '85, stand as a terrible exception to Jarrett's usual freshness and verve."
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Spirits is a double album by Keith Jarrett on which he does not perform solo piano, jazz standards or the kind of music he is usually known for. Instead he performs vocals, guitar, glockenspiel, soprano saxophone, recorder, piano, tabla, flutes and percussion on multiple tracks that were recorded at his home studio (aka Cavelight Studios) in New Jersey. It was released by ECM Records in 1986 and Jarrett dedicated it to his wife Rose Ann Colavito.
User Album Review
Among mixed enthusiasm after such a different output in Jarrett's previous production, the Rough Guide to Jazz states :
"The process of creating this home-recorded "ethnic" music helped Jarrett weather his crisis and get back to full music-making. The music on this two-disc set has its own direct depth and beauty -the glorious rhythm and Pakistani flute on 'Spirits 21' for example, or the liturgical vocal drones and haunting soprano saxophone on 'Spirits 17'- but also stands as a record of a unique revelatory experience."
According to Tom Moon at NPR the album is "an experimental (and unfairly disregarded) transfixing two-disc vision quest recorded between May and July 1985 by Jarrett alone in a studio in New Jersey".
While Allmusic review by non-jazz or "ethno" music specialist, The Tina Turner Story author Ron Wynn awarded the album 3 stars, calling it, "More a technical showcase than a musically worthy enterprise", other views have contested those claims as "incompetent".
In 2002, on occasion of the double CD "Rarum: Selected Recordings of Keith Jarrett" release (which contains Spirits #2, #13, #16, #20 and #25) a "Various All About Jazz staff members" review states that the tracks belonging to "Spirits, a totally flat overdubbed solo record from '85, stand as a terrible exception to Jarrett's usual freshness and verve."
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