Keith Jarrett - The Survivors' Suite (1977 US ECM Vinyl LP)

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Keith Jarrett - The Survivors' Suite | Vinyl LP - 1977 US ECM Records Original (ECM 1-1085, Wakefield Pressing)

Jarrett revealed in a 2009 interview that the suite was written for a specific room. The quartet had a concert booked at Avery Fisher Hall in New York, opposite Monk as part of the festival, and Jarrett knew from playing there repeatedly that the sound onstage blurred at fast tempos. He composed the music for that acoustic, writing for the space itself, and the piece became something the group played and refined from that first performance onward. By the time they recorded it in Ludwigsburg, the suite had been absorbed into the quartet's language. "Beginning" fills side A with 27 minutes that open on a tentative, almost hesitant piano passage before Redman's tenor enters and the group builds into the first of several collective improvisations. Jarrett switches between piano, soprano saxophone, bass recorder and celeste across the side, and each instrument change shifts the texture of the ensemble. Haden and Motian adjust underneath without signalling. The transitions between written sections and free passages are seamless enough that it's not always clear where composition ends and improvisation begins.

"Conclusion" on side B runs 21 minutes and brings the suite to its most intense passage. The group had been together since 1971, growing from Jarrett's earlier trio with Haden and Motian (which predated the quartet by four years, and which had first recorded as a studio unit with Redman on Expectations in 1972). The quartet dissolved in late 1976 after this recording.

This is the 1977 US original pressing on ECM 1-1085, plated and pressed at Wakefield Manufacturing.