See moreRecorded at his home studio in 1986, the double album No End illuminates hitherto undocumented aspects of Keith Jarrett's music. He is heard on electric guitars, electric bass, drums and percussion, overdubbing tribal dances of his own devising: "Somehow something happened during these days in the 80s that won't ever be repeated," he writes in his liner notes. "There was really, to my knowledge, no forethought or composition - in the typical sense - going on; just a feeling or a rhythmic idea or a bass line concept or melody. None of this was written down."
On the instrumentation: "Drums were always with me in some way," Jarrett reflects. "I have always been drawn to instruments that you touch directly, without a mechanism in between. Therefore, I cannot say that I have ever loved the piano as much as the drums or guitar. And, though I have a reputation for being in the acoustic world, I have always loved electric guitar." With, primarily, these instruments (piano this time has only a cameo role) Jarrett has shaped one of his most unusual albums.
No End is released simultaneously with the solo piano Concerts: Bregenz/München, a three-disc set making its first complete appearance on CD. These album releases complete an important year for Keith Jarrett on ECM. In January 2013 came the re-issue of Hymns/Spheres, followed by the standards trio's Somewhere in June J. S. Bach's Six Sonatas for Violin and Piano, with Michelle Makarski, Jarrett's first classical recording since the mid-1990s.
Personnel: Keith Jarrett (electric guitars, fender bass, drums, tablas, percussion, voice, recorder, piano)