More than 40 years after its original release, this limited and numbered facsimile edition of Keith Jarrett’s legendary 10-LP box set “Sun Bear Concerts” is recreated from original analog sources.

Sun Bear Concerts - documenting five complete solo performances by Keith Jarrett in Japan - counts as a milestone achievement in the history of jazz recording. As Down Beat wrote, on the occasion of the original release, Jarrett’s improvisations are “the inventions of a giant, overpoweringly intimate in the way they can draw a listener in and hold him captive. Jarrett has once more stepped into the cave of his creative consciousness and brought to light music of startling power, majesty and warmth.”

A work of art by any standards, Sun Bear Concerts brings together solo concerts in November 1976 in Kyoto, Osaka, Nagoya, Tokyo and Sapporo, in recordings made byJapanese engineer Okihiro Sugano and producer Manfred Eicher, who travelled through Japan with Keith Jarrett. The set’s book-form packaging, with design by BarbaraWojirsch, includes photographs by Klaus Knaup, Tadayuki Naitoh and Akira Aimi.

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  • 1. Kyoto - Part I
  • 2. Kyoto - Part Ii

• - 2 -

  • 1. Osaka - Part I
  • 2. Osaka - Part Ii

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  • 1. Nagoya - Part I
  • 2. Nagoya - Part Ii

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  • 1. Tokyo - Part I
  • 2. Tokyo - Part Ii

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  • 1. Sapporo - Part I
  • 2. Sapporo - Part Ii

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  • 1. Encores - Sapporo
  • 2. Encores - Tokyo
  • 3. Encores - Nagoya