''Personal Mountains'' is a live album by American pianist

Keith Jarrett Keith Jarrett (born May 8, 1945) is an American jazz and classical music pianist and composer. Jarrett started his career with Art Blakey and later moved on to play with Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis. Since the early 1970s, he has also been a ...

's 'European Quartet' recorded in 1979 and released by

ECM Records ECM (Edition of Contemporary Music) is an independent record label founded by Karl Egger, Manfred Eicher and Manfred Scheffner in Munich in 1969. While ECM is best known for jazz music, the label has released a variety of recordings, and ECM's a ...

10 years later, in 1989. The recording documents the band featuring Jarrett,

Jan Garbarek Jan Garbarek () (born 4 March 1947) is a Norwegian jazz saxophonist, who is also active in classical music and world music. Garbarek was born in Mysen, Østfold, southeastern Norway, the only child of a former Polish prisoner of war, Czesław ...

Palle Danielsson Nils Paul "Palle" Danielsson (born 15 October 1946) is a Swedish jazz double bassist born in Stockholm, Sweden. From 1974 to 1979, he was a member of Keith Jarrett's quartet. He is the brother of pianist Monica Dominique. Career Danielsson's ...

and Jon Christensen), in different live performances in Tokyo in April 1979.

April 1979 Tour in Japan

''Personal Mountains'' contains tracks from different concerts performed in Tokyo in April 1979. According to ''www.keithjarrett.org'', that April Jarrett's "European Quartet" toured Japan performing 13 times in 20 days which also gave way to Sleeper.Keith Jarrett 1979 live concerts
accessed January 2021 * 2 - Kosei Nenkin Hall, Tokyo * 4 - Civic Hall, Fukuoka * 5 - Yubin-Chokin Hall, Hiroshima * 6 - Kosei Nenkin Hall, Osaka * 9 - International House, Kobe * 10 - Kaikan Hall 1, Kyoto * 12 - Aichi Auditorium, Nagoya * 13 - Kosei Nenkin Hall, Tokyo * 16 - Nakano Sun Plaza, Tokyo – '' Sleeper'' (1989) * 17 - Nakano Sun Plaza, Tokyo * 18 - Hokkaido Kosei Nenkin Hall, Sapporo * 20 - Kanagawa Kenmin Hall, Yokohama * 21 - Prefectural Culture Center, Ibaraki

Reception

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review by Richard S. Ginell awarded the album 4 stars, stating, "Clearly this is one of the peaks of the European quartet's discography.".Ginell, R
Allmusic Review
accessed September 12, 2011

Track listing

:''All compositions by Keith Jarrett.'' # "Personal Mountains" - 16:02 # "Prism" - 11:15 # "Oasis" - 18:03 # "Innocence" - 7:16 # "Late Night Willie" - 8:46

Personnel

* Keith Jarrett - piano, percussion *

- tenor and soprano saxophones *

- double-bass * Jon Christensen - drums Production *

Manfred Eicher Manfred Eicher (born 9 July 1943) is a German record producer and the founder of ECM Records. Life and career Eicher was born in Lindau, Germany. He studied music at the Academy of Music in Berlin. He started as a double-bass player of classic ...

- producer *

Jan Erik Kongshaug Jan Erik Kongshaug (4 July 1944 – 5 November 2019) was a Norwegian sound engineer, jazz guitarist, and composer. Career Kongshaug was born in Trondheim, the son of guitarist John Kongshaug. Store Norske Leksikon (in Norwegian) During his chi ...

- recording engineer * Rose Anne Colavito - drawing * Barbara Wojirsch - layout

References

{{Authority control Jan Garbarek live albums Keith Jarrett live albums 1989 live albums ECM Records live albums Albums produced by Manfred Eicher