Great virtuosity and playfulness

The double-CD "Solo Concerts. Bremen / Lausanne", originally released as a 3-LP set, is a witness to the early art of improvisation at the time of the recordings not even 30-year-old Keith Jarrett. The time earlier concert in Switzerland in March 1973, on the second CD, while the first CD contains excerpts from a concert in Bremen July 1973.
In particular, the Bremen concert is fantastic. It demonstrates an incredible maturity of the young pianist, a virtuoso and cheerful playfulness as they possibly still be heard in the "Sun Bear Concerts" before predominate in later live recordings rather more serious motives or the mixing of free improvisation with standards-notes. The first part of the "Bremer CD" is a nice mix of different styles and themes. You can tell Jarrett that he just start playing and can be worn from idea to idea. Sometime it seems but a certain lack of ideas to have overcome, because he loses himself in a longer boogie-woogie phase, of which we do not know how he dissolves again. The piece will be faded out. "Part II" is played concentrated and yet here too jazzy, light-hearted, very fleet and thematically highly condensed phases mix terrific from. Sometimes you have the feeling that it scurry four or six hands on the keyboard, and yet Jarrett never loses control over what is happening. The audience seems to be amazed, because at the end it takes a long time until the applause begins.
Unfortunately, the addition has not been brought as a separate sound track or file on the CD, but almost as a part of "Part II" - an artisanal error of ECM. One knows that tangy piece by the "Last Solo" DVD a Tokyo concert in 1984, where it however Jarrett plays more mature.
The second CD contains the same mistake. The two long pieces of Lausanne concert are treated as one track. That's annoying. The first part of the Lausanne concert is wonderfully varied and has more slow, lyrical passages as the Bremer pieces. In many cases, it sounds heavenly airy-light, which Jarrett transported in the Swiss spring evening. EXPERIMENTAL it comes to (from 29'54 of the tracks) in the second part. Here is tapped at the beginning on the piano, the strings are plucked and alternate keys are sometimes pressed. Even if some of the "pure" piano passages are beautifully melodic, but the piece can not be completely satisfactory as a whole. But that does the overall excellent quality of "Solo Concerts. Bremen / Lausanne" no harm.