Back Hand

Back Hand
Back Hand
Studio album by Keith Jarrett
Released	1975 (?)
Recorded	1974, October 9–10
Studio	Generation Sound Studios, New York City (USA)
Genre	Jazz
Length	39:29
Label	Impulse!
Producer	Ed Michel
Keith Jarrett chronology
Keith Jarrett American Quartet chronology

Back Hand is an album by jazz pianist Keith Jarrett recorded in two sessions in October 1974 that also gave way to the album Death and the Flower. Originally released in 1975 ^[1] by Impulse!, it features performances by Jarrett's American Quartet, which included Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden and Paul Motian along with Guilherme Franco added on percussion. For a long time the album remained a relatively obscure work until it was resuscitated by Impulse! years later.

Aside from its appearance in The Impulse Years: 1973-1974 boxset in 1997, the music contained in Back Hand had been reissued only on compact disc in Japan, packaged in a miniature replica of the original vinyl LP sleeve. It also appeared in Italy, in 2001, as a supplement to the La Repubblica national newspaper, copyrighted as "Musicom S.R.L."

Reception[]

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4.5 stars stating "The group (with Jarrett occasionally switching to flute and Redman to the bizarre-sounding musette) is in typically exploratory, yet often melodic form on lengthy renditions of four of Jarrett's inside/outside originals.".^[2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	^[3]
Record Collector	^[4]

Track listing[]

All compositions by Keith Jarrett

"Inflight" - 9:04
"Kuum" - 11:34
"Vapallia" - 7:46
"Back Hand" - 11:05

The Italian edition also featured a fifth track: "Victoria" - 5:04 (composed by Jarrett and Paul Motian)

Personnel[]

Keith Jarrett - piano, flute, percussion
Dewey Redman - tenor saxophone, musette, percussion
Charlie Haden - bass
Paul Motian - drums, percussion
Guilherme Franco - percussion

Technical Personnel[]

Tony May - engineer
Baker Bigsby - mix engineering
Rom Wilkes - art direction
Tim Bryant - design

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Discogs Keith Jarrett: Back Hand accessed June 2020
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed September 16, 2011
^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 112. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
^ Waring, Charles. "Backhand (*** Impulse!)". Record Collector. recordcollectormag.com. Retrieved 14 June 2018.

[Discogs_BackHand-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b Discogs Keith Jarrett: Back Hand accessed June 2020

[Allmusic-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed September 16, 2011

[RSJRG-3] Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 112. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.

[4] Waring, Charles. "Backhand (*** Impulse!)". Record Collector. recordcollectormag.com. Retrieved 14 June 2018.

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