El Juicio (The Judgement)

El Juicio (The Judgement)
Studio album by Keith Jarrett
Released	1975[1]
Recorded	July 8–9, 15–16, 1971
Studio	Atlantic, New York City, US
Genre	Jazz
Length	39:11
Label	Atlantic
Producer	George Avakian
Keith Jarrett chronology
Luminessence (1975) El Juicio (The Judgement) (1975) Death and the Flower (1975)
Keith Jarrett American Group chronology
Treasure Island (1974) El Juicio (The Judgement) (1975) Death and the Flower (1975)

El Juicio (The Judgement) is an album by pianist Keith Jarrett recorded in 1971 and released in 1975.^[1] On four days in July and one in August 1971, Jarrett went into the Atlantic Recording Studios with his trio (Charlie Haden and Paul Motian), plus Dewey Redman on tenor saxophone, and produced enough music for three albums: The Mourning of a Star (released in 1971), El Juicio (The Judgement) and Birth (released in 1972). Accordingly, the 1971 sessions mark the emergence of what would be later called Jarrett's "American quartet."

Redman would not join the working group as a full member until 1972, and the new quartet’s first album to make it to the public would be Birth. When Atlantic Records released El Juicio in 1975 the group had already signed with Impulse! and was steadily recording under that label.