Concerts is a live solo album by American pianist Keith Jarrett

Keith Jarrett

Keith Jarrett is an American pianist and composer who performs both jazz and classical music.Jarrett started his career with Art Blakey, moving on to play with Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis. Since the early 1970s he has enjoyed a great deal of success in jazz, jazz fusion, and classical music; as...

 recorded in concert on May 28, 1981 at the Festspielhaus

Bregenzer Festspiele

Bregenzer Festspiele is a performing arts festival which is held every July and August in Bregenz, Austria.Founded in 1946, the festival presents a wide variety of musical and theatrical events in several venues:...

 in Bregenz

Bregenz

-Culture:The annual summer music festival Bregenzer Festspiele is a world-famous festival which takes place on and around a stage on Lake Constance, where a different opera is performed every second year.-Sport:* A1 Bregenz HB is a handball team....

, Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

 and on June 2, 1981 at the Herkulesaal in Munich

Munich

Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

, West Germany

West Germany

West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....

 and originally released as a 3-LP set on the ECM label.. The later CD reissue only released the Bregenz performance.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Richard S. Ginell awarded the album 3 stars and states "This set is not to be confused with the earlier, more consistently inspired Solo Concerts

Solo Concerts: Bremen/Lausanne

Solo Concerts: Bremen/Lausanne is a recording released through ECM by jazz pianist Keith Jarrett performing solo improvisations recorded in Bremen and Lausanne in 1973...

triple album which made Jarrett a star, yet the pianist was far from tapped out in these performances. Jarrett is often in his best lyrically funky form... this is far more interesting and elevated music-making than that of the New Age navel-gazing imitators cropping up in Jarrett's wake in the early '80s".

Track listing

All compositions by Keith Jarrett

1. "Festspielhaus Part I" - 21:54
2. "Festspielhaus Part II" - 12:04
3. "Untitled" - 9:30
4. "Heartland" - 6:03
5. "Herkulesaal Part I" - 23:22 Only released on original 3-LP set
6. "Herkulesaal Part II - 23:32 Only released on original 3-LP set
7. "Herkulesaal Part III" - 26:29 Only released on original 3-LP set
8. "Herkulesaal Part IV" - 11:38 Only released on original 3-LP set
9. "Mon Coeur Est Rouge" - 7:11 Only released on original 3-LP set
10. "Heartland" - 6:11 Only released on original 3-LP set
    • Recorded in concert in Bregenz, Austria on May 28, 1981 (tracks 1-4) and Munich, West Germany on June 2, 1981 (tracks 5-10).