Fort Yawuh

Fort Yawuh
Live album by
Released1973 [1]
RecordedFebruary 24, 1973
VenueVillage Vanguard, New York City (USA)
GenreJazz
Length41:40
LabelImpulse!
ProducerEd Michel
Keith Jarrett chronology
Ruta and Daitya
(1973)
Fort Yawuh
(1973)
Solo Concerts: Bremen/Lausanne
(1973)
Keith Jarrett American group chronology
The Mourning of a Star
(1971)
Fort Yawuh
(1973)
Treasure Island
(1974)
Retrospective professional reviews
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Christgau's Record GuideA−[3]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[4]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[5]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[6]

Fort Yawuh is a jazz album by American pianist and composer Keith Jarrett. Originally released in 1973 by Impulse! Records,[1] it marks the beginning of the label’s relationship with Jarrett. Recorded live at the Village Vanguard on February 24, 1973 by Jarrett's "American Quartet": Dewey Redman on tenor saxophone, Charlie Haden on acoustic bass, Paul Motian on drums, plus percussionist Danny Johnson. The title of the album is an anagram of "Fourth Way," a reference to George Gurdjieff's fourth path of self-awareness.[7]

  1. ^ a b Discogs Keith Jarrett: Fort Yawuh accessed June 2020
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Allmusic was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: J". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved February 27, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
  4. ^ Larkin, Colin (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. ISBN 9780857125958. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
  5. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 112. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  6. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 769. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  7. ^ Sandner, Wolfgang (2020). Keith Jarrett: A Biography. Translated by Jarrett, Chris. Equinox. pp. 102–103.