Keith Jarrett
The Celestial Hawk
ECM Records (US) 1980
ECM-1-1175 (LP) w/label catalog
sleeve : EX+(IN SHRINK, light wear on one corner)
media : EX/EX(some slightly noise)
This album, released in 1980, is by American pianist Keith Jarrett, who rose to fame in his twenties with historic masterpieces such as "Solo Concert" and "Koln Concert." It features recordings from a performance at Carnegie Hall in New York in March 1980, with Christopher Keene conducting the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra and Jarrett himself on piano. It is a large-scale work written for orchestra, percussion, and piano, making it a rather unique and important piece in Jarrett's catalog. In 1976, Jarrett was commissioned by Deutsche Grammophon to write a piece for the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Seiji Ozawa. He began composing this work, but instead of a concerto that heavily featured jazz improvisation, it was a fully written piece of about 200 pages and 40 minutes in length. This led to a misunderstanding between Jarrett and the commissioner, and ultimately, the premiere plans fell through. It is said that Jarrett and Manfred Eicher eventually recorded it themselves on ECM. It is a masterpiece with its own spiritual world, neither a typical orchestral work nor jazz with strong improvisational elements. Although this work was released four years before the NEW SERIES, it can be considered one of the origins that led Eicher to later launch the NEW SERIES.・
A1: First Movement
B2: Third Movement