![]() ![]() Ginell states, "While Sun Bear breaks little ground that his earlier solo piano albums had not already covered, it is nevertheless richly inventive within Jarrett's personal parameter of idioms. ![]() Reception Professional ratings Review scores The Sun Bear Concerts were originally released as a ten-LP set in January 1978, and re-released in 1989 as a six-CD (and six cassette) box set, with encores from the concerts in Sapporo, Tokyo and Nagoya-the first that the five performances could be heard as a whole. I simply liked the idea of an animal that looks as if it would be nice to get near to and which, when you do so, shakes your whole conception of life. The next day I asked our Japanese sound engineer about this animal because I remembered its face, a really friendly small face, and he replied, 'Yes, it's a beautiful bear but if you get near enough to him he will knock you three blocks down the road'. On a Japanese tour I saw a sun bear in the zoo, a small bear which really looked friendly and doesn't exist anywhere outside Japan. Jarrett, as quoted in his biography, explained the title: I think that if you got to know it well enough, you'd find it all in there someplace." Title I've been thinking- Sun Bear is the only thing I've recorded that runs the gamut of human emotion. In a 1979 interview, Jarrett stated, "I was involved in a very searching period of time when we recorded that, and the music itself was almost a release for the search. November 18 – Hokkaido Kosei Nenkin Hall, Sapporo.November 16 – Kanagawa Kenmin Hall, Yokohama.Sun Bear Concerts compiles five of the eight concerts performed on Jarrett's November 1976 solo tour in Japan: Sun Bear Concerts is a live box set by American jazz pianist Keith Jarrett compiling five solo piano concerts performed over two weeks during his November 1976 tour in Japan and released on ECM in January 1978.īackground November 1976 solo tour in Japan A riveting and arresting record.Kyoto, Nagoya, Tokyo, Sapporo and Osaka (Japan) It's what Jarrett does with them that is remarkable. these two discs create a strong impression of two performances that develop out of tiny germs of ideas. and simply let the music flow through him. Having looked again at free playing alongside his standards repertoire, Jarrett had the confidence to sit down at the piano. The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded the album 4 stars, and wrote: "this superb Osaka set is one of the highlights of his career. The AllMusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4.5 stars, stating, "His process is immediate, poignant, and utterly engaging throughout and marks a new phase in his solo recordings that will spur great interest in any open-minded listener interested in improvisational music." ![]() We are all players and we are all being played. This is what one should keep in mind while listening. I should not have felt this way, however, for the subconscious musical choices of sequence were made out of the personal need for the next thing. I was slightly shocked to notice that the concert had arranged itself into a musical structure despite my every effort to be oblivious to the overall outcome. The event lays itself out as it happened. Not so much of a gift was the coughing, but still, after experimenting with taking some of the coughs out of the mix, I opted for everything to be there. Not so strangely, this gave me a chance to really know what to play next. The audience in Japan also was not prepared for this format, so you will notice no applause at times. The second piece would not have existed without the first, etc. The first 13 tracks are discrete pieces drawn from each previous piece, and constitute the entire concert in Osaka. In the original liner notes, "Some Words about the Music," Keith Jarrett states: According to, the documented 2002 Osaka and Tokyo concerts were only his third and fourth solo performances since temporarily retiring due to chronic fatigue syndrome the other two had taken place in Tokyo in September 1999. Īfter dismissing the idea of performing lengthy improvised solos (see A Multitude of Angels), Radiance marked a new beginning in Jarrett's approach to solo piano concerts and this would be assessed in future solo recordings. In April 2006, a video recording of the live performance at Tokyo concert was released as Tokyo Solo. Radiance is a double-album by American pianist Keith Jarrett recorded in October 2002 in Japan at two different concerts-Osaka (October 27) and Tokyo (October 30)-and released by ECM in May 2005. Tokyo Bunka Kaikan (Main Hall), Tokyo (Japan) ![]()
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