One Great Album: Keith Jarrett "Death and the Flower"

Keith Jarrett's gifts are spread over such a wide range of brilliant projects that it's inevitable that some get forgotten or overlooked. Overshadowed by his work with ECM, his trios with DeJohnette and Peacock, and his solo improvisations are his "American Quartet" albums with ABC Impulse, With Dewey Redman on tenor, Charlie Haden on bass and Paul Motian on drums, and supplemented by Guilherme Franco on percussion, Jarrett had a band that inter-laced its many voices so beautifully that it could be entrancing. A blend of straight-ahead and free styles, and with a touch of multi-cultural spice, this album is moody, soulful and enlivening. For 90 minute to 2 hour sets of the kind of music I feature on this channel, go to jazzgumbo.podomatic.com