Keith Jarrett/Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Restoration Ruin/Bap-Tizum

Artist:

Jarrett, Keith

UPC:

090431627426

See Also:

Cherry, Don (Trumpet) Moreira, Airto Holland, Dave Keith Jarrett Trio - Still Live Keith Jarrett - Jarrett: Luminessence, Music for String Orchestra & Saxophone Keith Jarrett - Yesterdays

Description:

/Art Ensemble Of Chicago.
2 LPs on 1 CD: Keith Jarrett: RESTORATION RUIN (1968)/Art Ensemble Of Chicago: BAP-TIZUM (1972).
Includes liner notes by Michael Cuscuna and John Sinclair.
RESTORATION RUIN:
Personnel includes: Keith Jarrett (vocals, various instruments).
Originally released on Vortex (2008).
BAP-TIZUM:
Art Ensemble Of Chicago: Joseph Jarman (vocals, sopranino, soprano, alto, tenor & bass saxophones, alto flute, vibraphone, congas, percussion); Roscoe Mitchell (vocals, soprano, alto, tenor & bass saxophones, clarinet, drums, percussion); Lester Bowie (vocals, trumpet, flugelhorn, kelphorn, bass drum, percussion); Don Moye (vocals, whistle, bass marimba, drums, congas, log drum, gong, percussion); Malachi Favors (vocals, whistle, acoustic & electric basses, log drum, gong).
Producers: Michael Cuscuna, Jimmy Douglas, Tunc Erim.
Recorded live at the Ann Arbor Blues & Jazz Festival, Otis Spann Memorial Field, Ann Arbor, Michigan on September 9, 1972. Originally released on Atlantic (1639).
Personnel: Joseph Jarman (vocals, alto, flute, alto flute, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, bass saxophone, vibraphone, congas, percussion, background vocals); Roscoe Mitchell (vocals, clarinet, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, bass saxophone, drums, percussion); Lester Bowie (vocals, trumpet, flugelhorn, bass drum, percussion); Famoudou Don Moye (vocals, marimba, drums, congas, percussion, gong); Malachi Favors (vocals, log drum, gong).
Liner Note Author: John Sinclair.
Recording information: Ann Arbor Blues & Jazz Festival, Ann Arbor, MI (09/12/1972).
Introduction by: John Sinclair.
Restoration Ruin, a weird Keith Jarrett album by any measure, was reissued on a single-disc CD in 1999 that made it seem yet weirder by pairing it, incongruously, with a respected, all-out early-`70s avant-garde jazz album by the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Bap-Tizum (recorded live in 1972 at the Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival). Restoration Ruin is a real oddity in the Jarrett catalog: a vocal album on which he plays all the instruments. And not a jazz vocal album either, but a folk-rock one, in which he alternates -- quite literally, track to track -- between sub-Dylan outings and more folk-Baroque ones that echo the late-`60s work of artists like Love and Tim Buckley. There`s a certain amateurish appeal to the LP, in keeping with other crossover "acid-folk" artists of the period. Yet the fact is that Jarrett is a major jazz musician, but a journeyman-at-best folk-rock singer (with a hoarse, wavering croon-whine), instrumentalist, and songwriter, with a bent for flaky wordplay that gives this a bit of a fried-psychedelic tinge. At times, to be harsh, it`s less than journeyman, particularly on the Dylanesque cuts, which have almost embarrassing wheezing son-of-Dylan harmonica, and some downright embarrassing out-of-sync drums. Better are the daintier, more melodic tracks with trimmings of flute, strings, and flamenco-like guitar, like the title song, "For You and Me," and "Sioux City Sue New," with their bossa nova feel. ~ Richie Unterberger

Track Listing:

DISC 1

1. Restoration Ruin
2. All Right
3. For You and Me
4. Have a Real Time
5. Sioux City Sue New
6. You`re Fortunate
7. Fire and Rain
8. Now He Knows Better
9. Wonders
10. Where Are You Going?
11. Nfamoudou-Boudougou
12. Immm
13. Unanka
14. Oouffnoon
15. Ohnedaruth
16. Odwalla

Album Information

Release Date:

03/14/2006

Type:

Performer

Genre:

Jazz Instrument

Subgenre:

Piano

Label:

Collectables

Catalog Number:

6274

Original Release Year:

1999

# of Discs:

1

Studio/Live:

Mixed

Mono/Stereo:

Stereo

Runtime:

75 : 44

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