From the eight panels that Keith Jarrett has recorded for the Impulse label, almost as many samplers have emerged in recent decades. There are also the provided with many additional Takes the individual recording sessions two CD boxes The Impulse Years, which are now also newly emerged even as bundled 9-CD box. In short, sometimes bulky, often wonderful, sometimes strenuous Bepob-, Hardbop- and ballads jazz music of the American Quartet of Keith Jarrett with Paul Motian on drums, Charlie Haden on bass and Dewey Redman on tenor saxophone (often supplemented by other musicians ) remains a cow, which gives a long milk. Keith Jarrett is just a sale stamp, the pulls. The Platinum Collection is, a little cocky to judge the latest 3-CD compilation of the language of the thin booklets to, Italian provenance (Universal Music Italia). The box looks nice: a stylized black wings on noble gray background. After all, is the booklet just information about the data of the respective recording sessions and on the line-up. The selected music for this sampler comes all Impulse discs the quartet of Fort Yawuh from 1973 to Bop-Be of 1976. It predominate The pleasant audible numbers, the ballads and the more accessible the bebop pieces. Nevertheless, some of the more bulky in my ears titles are included as of the two discs Mysteries and Shades. If Jarrett example reaches for soprano saxophone and thereby with Redman to the weirdest sound duel (for example in Konya), which does not always find its way into my ears. The same applies to too experimental percussions adventure of Paul Motian or Guilherme Franco. Unfortunately, reduced by nearly half of Träcklänge is the beautiful Death and The Flower, the title track of the same name plate from 1974. Among the great pieces also selected Victoria is one of the spring Motian, Prayer, Rainbow, the Yaqui Indian Folk Song or Silence of Charlie Haden. Overall, tends to be slightly better side of the American Quartet is displayed, with a nice highlight at the end: The piece Melting The Ice with its 18 minutes of the additional tracks from the box The Impulse Years 1973-1974 and comes from the live recording to Fort Yawuh (although at that time did not appear on the original plate). A simple but fabulous theme that is repeatedly taken up and varied and punctuated by several piano and saxophone solos, is the core of Melting The Ice. In addition there are all different style shades that the American Quartet of Jarrett were inherent in the lush Drive a De Drums on shrill saxophone excesses (Mushi Mushi, composed by Dewey Redman), the participation of the jazz guitar of Sam Brown (in Sister Fortune) to brisk bop Rag in flight. So who is also looking to this work phase of the master pianist to Jarrett's 70th birthday an approach that engages not necessarily next to The Platinum Collection.
