Creation (Keith Jarrett album)

Reception

Cormack Larkin of The Irish Times noted: "Even so, it’s four years since his last solo release, the joyously exuberant Rio. This latest is more subdued, a selection of sometimes brooding but occasionally sublime ruminations, culled from live performances around the world in 2014, amounting to an unintended suite many Romantic-era classical composers would have been happy to have written."

John Fordham of The Guardian wrote: "In its pensive melodies and post-Romantic chord voicings, Creation is a very different proposition to the jubilant Rio. It comprises selections from six different 2014 concert performances in four cities, reordered to make a nine-part suite that sounds like a free-flowing single work. Some sections unfold as treble ripples turning to ballad-like songs, while glimpses of gospel chord-changes surface and then evaporate, and rolling, low-register ostinatos gently modulate. It’s dark, and sometimes melancholy, but as usual with Jarrett, full of improvised motifs that suggest long-forgotten songs. ECM are simultaneously releasing a set of Jarrett’s classical interpretations of music by Samuel Barber and Bartók".

Track list

1. "Creation" (Part I – Live) (8:17)
2. "Creation" (Part II – Live) (7:40)
3. "Creation" (Part III – Live) (6:59)
4. "Creation" (Part IV – Live) (7:33)
5. "Creation" (Part V – Live) (7:13)
6. "Creation" (Part VI – Live) (9:25)
7. "Creation" (Part VII – Live) (8:17)
8. "Creation" (Part VIII – Live) (8:36)
9. "Creation" (Part IX – Live) (8:30)