Keith Jarrett

• 2-CD SET

Trying to describe Keith Jarrett’s alchemical explorations of the clavichord is like trying to describe love: if you’ve never fallen in it, the words of others mean little. All I can do is share and hope my impressions might speak, for the album promises something so ineffable that it can only be expressed in music.

Over the course of nineteen improvisations, Jarrett transcends both the medium and the message in search of something untouched for centuries. He burrows into the heart of this nearly forgotten instrument, seeming to make music as if only after centuries of slumber. By the time he awakes, his body has fused with every molecule of metal and wood, so that he need only step into a latter-day age, where the magic of technology allows us a glimpse of that anatomy, wavering and fair.

PERSONNEL:

• Keith Jarrett - (clavichord)

Recorded July 1986 at Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg

TRACKS:

• CD ONE
• 01. Book Of Ways 1
• 02. Book Of Ways 2
• 03. Book Of Ways 3
• 04. Book Of Ways 4
• 05. Book Of Ways 5
• 06. Book Of Ways 6
• 07. Book Of Ways 7
• 08. Book Of Ways 8
• 09. Book Of Ways 9
• 10. Book Of Ways 10

• CD TWO
• 01. Book Of Ways 11
• 02. Book Of Ways 12
• 03. Book Of Ways 13
• 04. Book Of Ways 14
• 05. Book Of Ways 15
• 06. Book Of Ways 16
• 07. Book Of Ways 17
• 08. Book Of Ways 18
• 09. Book Of Ways 19