Paul Wilkinson published a conversation with Bill Goodwin, who produced the two Deer Head Inn albums (At the Deer Head Inn and The Old Country). They talk about how Goodwin organized the recording of the Deer Head Inn performance (with rather basic equipment, surprisingly), how Goodwin first met Keith Jarrett in the 60s, and much more.

A Complete Live at The Deer Head Inn vinyl box set should be released by ECM in the near future, apparently.

Thanks to Paul for the link.

ECM will release more tracks from the September 16, 1992 performance at the Deer Head Inn with Gary Peacock and Paul Motian. The album should be released on November 8, 2024 according to a listing on jpc.de.

At the Deer Head Inn was released in April 1994 by ECM and contained seven tracks from the same performance.

Tracklist:

1. Everything I Love (8:11)
2. I Fall In Love Too Easily (9:54)
3. Straight No Chaser (8:51)
4. All of You (9:46)
5. Someday My Prince Will Come (6:56)
6. The Old Country (12:54)
7. Golden Earrings (8:25)
8. How Long Has This Been Going On (8:32)

Thanks to Matthias for the information.

Update (October 1, 2024). An excerpt from the album, “Straight No Chaser”, is available on streaming platforms, e.g. YouTube. Thanks to John for the link.

Update (October 9, 2024). Track durations added.

I’m a little late on this. A new Keith Jarrett compilation (42 tracks) is available on all streaming platforms (Apple, Spotify, Tidal, YouTube, etc.). It consists of previously released tracks from ECM albums, from Facing You (1971, released in 1972) to Munich 2016 (2016, released in 2019).

Thanks to Nate for the link.

A recording of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s Wurttemberg sonatas by Keith Jarrett will be released by ECM in June 2023.

Keith Jarrett’s account of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s Wurttemberg Sonatas is a revelation.

“I’d heard the sonatas played by harpsichordists, and felt there was room for a piano version,” says Jarrett today.

This outstanding recording, made in 1994 and previously unreleased, finds the pianist attuned to the expressive implications of the sonatas in every moment.

The younger Bach’s idiosyncrasies: the gentle playfulness of the music, the fondness for subtle and sudden tempo shifts, the extraordinary, rippling invention…all of this is wonderfully delivered.

The fluidity of the whole performance has a quality that perhaps could be conveyed only by an artist of great improvisational skills.

In Jarrett’s hands, CPE’s exploration of new compositional forms retains the freshness of discovery.

Recorded at Keith Jarrett’s Cavelight Studio in May 1994, the album includes liner notes by Paul Griffiths.

The tracklist is as follows:

CD 1

1. I. Moderato (Sonata No. 1 in A Minor, H. 30) (7:33)
2. II. Andante (Sonata No. 1 in A Minor, H. 30) (3:15)
3. III. Allegro assai (Sonata No. 1 in A Minor, H. 30) (5:29)
4. I. Un poco allegro (Sonata No. 2 in A-Flat Major, H. 31) (6:52)
5. II. Adagio (Sonata No. 2 in A-Flat Major, H. 31) (3:08)
6. III. Allegro (Sonata No. 2 in A-Flat Major, H. 31) (3:51)
7. I. Allegro (Sonata No. 3 in E Minor, H. 33) (6:02)
8. II. Adagio (Sonata No. 3 in E Minor, H. 33) (3:16)
9. III. Vivace (Sonata No. 3 in E Minor, H. 33) (2:59)

CD 2

1. I. Un poco allegro (Sonata No. 4 in B-Flat Major, H. 32) (5:47)
2. II. Andante (Sonata No. 4 in B-Flat Major, H. 32) (3:01)
3. III. Allegro (Sonata No. 4 in B-Flat Major, H. 32) (4:30)
4. I. Allegro (Sonata No. 5 in E-Flat Major, H. 34) (7:42)v
5. II. Adagio (Sonata No. 5 in E-Flat Major, H. 34) (3:21)v
6. III. Allegro assai (Sonata No. 5 in E-Flat Major, H. 34) (3:32)
7. I. Moderato (Sonata No. 6 in B Minor, H. 36) (7:02)
8. II. Adagio non molto (Sonata No. 6 in B Minor, H. 36) (3:43)
9. III. Allegro (Sonata No. 6 in B Minor, H. 36) (4:30)

Thanks to Matthias for the information.

Book of Ways will be released by ECM as a 2-CD package on March 10, 2023 (see also Facebook post).

After 36 years: ‘Book of Ways’ is available in exclusive packaging starting March 10th. ‘Book of Ways’ was recorded on the 14th of July 1986 in Ludwigsburg. The sequence of improvisations has been adapted for this double album without being changed in order. Rather amazing is the great variety of sound and rhythm – Jarrett played alternately one or two instruments simultaneously. Beyond unmistakeable echoes of lute music and Japanese koto, the whole range of modes of expression the clavichord is capable of is being fathomed out. All this has been supported by studio techniques, which recorded the sound of the instrument with rarely heard intensity. The re-issue 2-CD comes in a new packaging with high quality paper sleeves and gold embossed lettering.

Thanks to Eoin for the links.