No End (album)

No End
Studio album by Keith Jarrett
Released November 15, 2013
Recorded 1986 at Cavelight Studio
Genre Jazz, Jazz-Rock, Jazz-Funk, Avant-Garde
Length 1:32:53
Label ECM
Producer Keith Jarrett (record producer, 1986); Manfred Eicher (executive producer, 2013)
Keith Jarrett chronology

Rio
(2011)		 No End
(2013)		 Last Dance
(2014)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic 49/100[1]
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic [2]

No End is a one-man-band[3] instrumental album by American pianist and composer Keith Jarrett, where he performs all the parts through overdubbing between "two Tandberg cassette recorders".

As usual with his solo albums, Jarrett improvised all tracks, but unusually, he mainly used electric guitars (including a "deep red Gibson solid-body"), Fender bass, tablas, drums and assorted percussion; he also includes some voice (wordless chanting on tracks "V" and "XVI"), and his primary instrument, piano (although on track "X" only).

The recording was done during 1986 at Cavelight Studio, Jarrett's home studio in New Jersey, but released only in 2013, with Jarrett concluding his liner notes on, "How could I have left it in a drawer all these years?"

Tracklist

All music composed by Keith Jarrett.

Disc 1
No. Title Length
1. "I"   7:22
2. "II"   3:37
3. "III"   5:39
4. "IV"   5:25
5. "V"   3:39
6. "VI"   5:36
7. "VII"   4:06
8. "VIII"   3:57
9. "IX"   4:47
10. "X"   2:33
Total length:
 46:47
Disc 2
No. Title Length
1. "XI"   4:05
2. "XII"   6:14
3. "XIII"   3:48
4. "XIV"   4:55
5. "XV"   4:28
6. "XVI"   2:46
7. "XVII"   3:40
8. "XVIII"   5:48
9. "XIX"   7:12
10. "XX"   3:04
Total length:
 46:06

References

  1. ↑ "Metacritic Review". Metacritic.com. Retrieved 2014-11-20.
  2. ↑ Jurek, Thom. "AllMusic Review". Allmusic.com. Retrieved 2014-11-20.
  3. ↑ Jarrett calls it "Solo/Band" on the backcover.