Mysterious, dramatic, and captivating all at once, 'Luminessence', recorded in 1974, right after the dazzling album 'Belonging', belongs to the most creative period of the collaboration between Keith Jarrett and Jan Garbarek.
In this expansive piece, Jarrett crafts shimmering orchestral environments, offering Garbarek the creative framework for some of his most focused, passionate, and expressive interventions. Produced by Manfred Eicher, this audiophile edition of the album, which gave its name to the entire Luminessence collection, will be released with new liner notes contextualizing the work historically. The record is presented in a simple sleeve adorned with embossed lettering, like the original 1970s version, with an additional printed insert featuring the new liner notes.
"The understanding between the two men is such that Jarrett’s written melodies sound like Garbarek’s improvisations," wrote Ian Carr in his biography of Keith Jarrett, while DownBeat magazine, in a 5-star review at the time of the album's release, observed that "probing deep into his personal musical universe, Jarrett has brought back a work as unsettling as it is singular, destined to become a landmark in the 1970s musical landscape."
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