Expectations (Keith Jarrett album)

Expectations
Studio album by
Keith Jarrett
ReleasedOctober 1972 [1]
RecordedApril 5–6 & 27, 1972
StudioColumbia Studio E, New York City, US
GenreAvant-garde jazz, post-bop, jazz fusion
Length78:02
LabelColumbia
ProducerGeorge Avakian, Bob Belden
Keith Jarrett chronology
Birth
(1972)
Expectations
(1972)
Ruta and Daitya
(1973)
Keith Jarrett American group chronology
Birth
(1972)
Expectations
(1972)
El Juicio
(1975)

Expectations is an album recorded by Keith Jarrett in 1972 and released on Columbia Records the same year.[1] In addition to Jarrett, musicians on the recording include his "American quartet": Dewey Redman on tenor saxophone, Charlie Haden on bass, and Paul Motian on drums. Also featured are Sam Brown on electric guitar, Airto on percussion, as well as brass and string sections[2] whose members are not credited in the album information. Expectations was produced by George Avakian, Jarrett's manager since 1966. [3]

In January 1999 Jarrett wrote that "Expectations is a very special recording for me, and the only release that ties so many of the feelings I had about music together in such a rich, varied and coherent weave."[4]

The album was awarded the Grand Prix du Disque in 1972.[5]

  1. ^ a b Discogs Keith Jarrett: Expectations accessed June 2020
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Penguin was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Carr, Ian. Keith Jarrett: The Man and His Music (Boston: Da Capo, 1992), ISBN 9780306804786 p. 41.
  4. ^ Expectations: 1999 CD reissue at Discogs Keith Jarrett: Expectations, Columbia Legacy accessed September 2020
  5. ^ Carr, Ian. Keith Jarrett: The Man and His Music (Boston: Da Capo, 1992) p. 56.