Hymns/Spheres cover

Hymns/Spheres

Released

Keith Jarrett may be rightly known as a masterful improviser at the piano, but on Hymns/Spheres, he breaks form on an 18th-century Baroque organ at Germany’s Ottobeuren Abbey. Recorded one year after his historic concert at Köln, this double album presents yet another facet of Jarrett’s jeweled talent. By experimenting with the instrument in question, altering air flow through novel stop configurations, his in-the-moment expectorations touch the heavens even as they scrape their knuckles along the ground. In another’s hands, this dichotomy might ring false; in his, it approaches the sacred.

Tyran Grillo

Recommended by

Suggestions
Etudes4Violin&Electronix cover

Etudes4Violin&Electronix

Daniel Bernard Roumain
Toxikum cover

Toxikum

Liudas Mockunas, Toxikum, Stefan Pasborg
Hagar’s Song cover

Hagar’s Song

Jason Moran, Charles Lloyd
Natsukashii cover

Natsukashii

Helge Lien Trio
Unicity cover

Unicity

John Patitucci, Brian Blade, Edward Simon
Guided Tour cover

Guided Tour

The New Gary Burton Quartet
Playground cover

Playground

Manu Katché