Sleeper: Tokyo, April 16, 1979

1. 01Oasis28:14
2. 01Personal Mountains21:12
3. 02Chant of the Soil14:53
4. 02Innocence10:48
5. 03So Tender13:27
6. 03Prism11:15

ECM - Tyran Grillo: Keith Jarrett piano Jan Garbarek tenor and soprano saxophones, flute, percussion Palle Danielsson double-bass Jon Christensen drums, percussion Concert produced by AI Music (Toshinari Koinuma) in collaboration with Trio Records/ECM/Bose Recorded live April 16, 1979 at Nakano Sun Plaza, Tokyo Engineer: Jan Erik Kongshaug Mixed 2012 at Rainbow Studio, Oslo by Jan Erik Kongshaug and Manfred Eicher Produced by Manfred Eicher Keith Jarrett’s European quartet—with Scandinavian cohorts Jan Garbarek of the reeds, Palle Danielsson of the strings, and Jon Christensen of the sticks—was the missing link to his trio endeavors with Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette, finding a happy medium between the latter’s standards-based approach and his marathon improvised performances alone at the keyboard. The quartet boasted not only fine technique and dovetailed sense of timing, but also the fruit of its leader’s compositional labors during a period of career-defining development. Representing the pinnacle of five sporadic years, Sleeper documents a 1979 Tokyo show from the same tour that brought us Personal Mountains. That very tune kicks off this set of amethyst originals, Jarrett…