Ruta & Daitya

Keith Jarrett, Jack DeJohnette, Keith Jarrett & Jack Dejohnette | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 23, 2000)
• Original Release Date: 1972
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Ecm Records
• ASIN: B00000ATZG
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #229,348 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This is not what you may think!, May 26, 2000

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Terry Saundry (Keysborough, Vic, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ruta & Daitya (Audio CD)

This album was recorded in early 1971 while both were playing with Miles Davis. Jarrett offered the tapes to Manfred Eicher after he had recorded and released the excellent "Facing You". ECM released the album in 1973. It is listed as 2000 because ECM are playing the old game of temporarily deleting lots of titles and then reissuing them at different prices a few months later. Some are cheaper; some are dearer (have you seen the new asking price on "Tribute"! How do they justify that! ).

Back to "Ruta & Daitya". This is NOT a standards-type recording. On it Jarrett plays electric piano, organ & flute in addition to piano. De Johnette plays percussion and drums. Ian Carr describes it as being not unlike some of the material on "Spirits" which I have not heard at this stage.

I like it very much. I just wanted to give you an idea of what to expect as it is nearly thirty years old!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars You know, you know..., July 11, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Ruta & Daitya (Audio CD)

...which is the best song on this album and the reason I own it. This is back when Keith Jarrett still had his feet on the ground, so to speak, before the whole solo concert thing. "You Know, You Know" has some of the most melodic drumming you'll ever hear, and it has a nice, lazy, funky feel to it. The interaction between Jarrett and DeJohnette is almost telepathic as they continually finish each other's phrases. The rhythmic feel these guys have is so merciless! The rest of the album is kind of self-indulgent, all the wood flute and hand-drum stuff doesn't really work, and I'm even ambivalent about the acoustic piano playing. It's the electric piano work that I like the best, so I guess that would put me on Mr. Jarrett's Big List of Philistines. Not an essential album, but if you're inclined to spring for an entire CD to get one particular tune, then you'll be rewarded.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An Interesting Look at Experimental Jarrett, August 11, 2001

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C. David LaRoche (Halifax, N.S.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ruta & Daitya (Audio CD)

This is indeed interesting. If you are new to Jarrett, I would recommend you hold out on purchasing this title until you've listened thouroughly to some of his more important solo and trio works. If you are familiar with Jarrett and don't have this album, get it! It will no doubt shed new light on someone you thought you had figured out. Harkening to the pipe-flute musing of his double-album Spirits, this set of duet's with uber-drummer (and longtime Jarrett collaborator) Jack Dejonette is anything but conventional. Most of the tracks produce images of Africa (some of them are named aptly so) and South America, themselves being deeply immersed in african polyrhythms and authentic-sounding flute playing on behalf of Jarrett. Ranging from droning dance music to magnificent piano work, the album also features the pre-anti-electric Jarrett on Organ and Electric Piano, a rare beast only heard on some other Miles Davis recordings (such as Live-Evil). Ruta and Daitya proves that Jarrett really did have a command of the electrical atmosphere, despite his current hatred for the music. The landscapes created by the duo here are different from any other Jarrett recording, and deeply funky. If not a mind-blowing album, Ruta and Daitya is interesting enough to last through many, many repeated listenings and suffer no loss of ingenuity.