Keith Jarrett - Sun Bear Concerts

Keith Jarrett — Sun Bear Concerts on SHM-SACD 6-disc set!

Solo piano at peak improvisational power!

Japanese pressing features the high-fidelity SHM-SACD format (single layer). Cardboard sleeve packaging. Universal. 2025.

Sun Bear Concerts is a box set by American jazz pianist Keith Jarrett compiling five live solo piano concerts performed over two weeks during his November 1976 tour in Japan and released on ECM in January 1978. 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 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."

Features:
• Super High Material Super Audio CD
• SHM-SACD Stereo SACD Layer
• Single-Layer Stereo SHM-SACD, to secure enough reflectance and not to compress DSD file.
• Label of the disc is printed with a special green ink called 'Onsho Shiyou,' which minimizes diffuse reflection.
• Carefully selected master audio is used, from existing DSD files to newly converted from analog tapes.
• This Single-Layer SHM-SACD can only be played on a Super Audio CD Player!
• Japanese pressing

 

Disc One: Kyoto, November 5th, 1976

1. Kyoto November 5, 1976 Part 1

2. Kyoto November 5, 1976 Part 2

Disc Two: Osaka, November 8th, 1976

1. Osaka November 8, 1976 Part 1

2. Osaka November 8, 1976 Part 2

Disc Three: Nagoya, November 12th, 1976

1. Nagoya November 12, 1976 Part 1

2. Nagoya November 12, 1976 Part 2

Disc Four: Tokyo, November 14th, 1976

1. Tokyo November 14, 1976 Part 1

2. Tokyo November 14, 1976 Part 2

Disc Five: Sapporo, November 18th, 1976

1. Sapporo November 18, 1976 Part 1

2. Sapporo November 18, 1976 Part 2

Disc Six: Encores

1. Encore Sapporo

2. Encore Tokyo

3. Encore Nagoya

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