Ruta and Daitya
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{{Infobox album
| name = Ruta and Daitya
| type = studio
| artist = Keith Jarrett & Jack DeJohnette
| cover = Ruta and Daitya.jpg
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| released = 1973
| recorded = May 1971{{cite web|title=Ruta and Daitya |url=https://ecmrecords.com/product/ruta-and-daitya-keith-jarrett-jack-dejohnette/ |website=ECM Records |access-date=April 21, 2023 }}
| venue =
| studio = Sunset Studios
Los Angeles, CA
| genre = Jazz
| length = 41:20
| label = ECM 1021 ST
| producer = Manfred Eicher
| chronology = Keith Jarrett
| prev_title = Expectations
| prev_year = 1972
| next_title = Fort Yawuh
| next_year = 1973
| misc = {{Extra chronology
| artist = Jack DeJohnette
| type = Album
| prev_title = Take Off Your Body
| prev_year = 1972
| title = Ruta and Daitya
| year = 1973
| next_title = Life Is Round
| next_year = 1973
}}
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Ruta and Daitya is jazz album by pianist Keith Jarrett and drummer Jack DeJohnette recorded in May 1971 and released on ECM in 1973—one of Jarrett's rare performances on electric keyboard.
Production
In his biography Keith Jarrett: The Man and His Music, Ian Carr explains how the album came to be recorded: "Early in 1971, when the Miles Davis group was doing a few days at Shelly's Manne Hole in Los Angeles, a friend from the Sunset Studios there offered Jarrett and DeJohnette some free studio time to record as a duo. They took drums and percussion and the electric piano and organ from the club and made a tape." Jarrett gave Manfred Eicher the tapes after the Facing You session—on November 10, 1971—to be mixed and produced.Carr, Ian. Keith Jarrett: The Man and His Music (New York: Da Capo, 1992), {{ISBN|9780306804786}} p.56, 61.
Reception
The AllMusic review by Richard S. Ginell awarded the album 3 stars, stating, "this is a valuable, underrated transition album that provides perhaps the last glimpse of the electric Keith Jarrett as he embarked on his notorious (and ultimately triumphant) anti-electric crusade."{{cite web|url=http://allmusic.com/album/ruta-and-daitya-r180389/review|title=Keith Jarrett: Ruta and Daitya|website=allmusic.com}}
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev2 = Encyclopedia of Popular Music
| rev3 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz
| rev3score = {{Rating|3|4}}{{cite book|last1=Cook|first1=Richard|author-link1=Richard Cook (journalist)|last2=Morton|first2=Brian|author-link2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer)|year=2008|title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings|edition=9th|publisher=Penguin|page=771|isbn=978-0-141-03401-0}}
| rev4 = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide
| rev4Score = {{rating|4|5}}{{Cite book
|editor-last=Swenson
|editor-first=J.
| year = 1985
| title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide
| publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone
| location = USA
| isbn = 0-394-72643-X
| pages = 60
}}
| rev8 = Tom Hull
| rev8Score = B+ ({{Rating-Christgau|hm2}}){{cite web|last=Hull|first=Tom|author-link=Tom Hull (critic)|date=28 February 2018|url=http://www.tomhull.com/ocston/blog/archives/2608-Streamnotes-February-2018.html|title=Streamnotes|website=Tom Hull – on the Web|access-date=9 July 2020}}
}}
Track listing
:All compositions by Keith Jarrett and Jack DeJohnette except as indicated
- "Overture/Communion" – 6:00
- "Ruta and Daitya" – 11:14
- "All We Got" – 2:00
- "Sounds of Peru/Submergence/Awakening" – 6:31
- "Algeria" – 5:47
- "You Know, You Know" (Jarrett) – 7:44
- "Pastel Morning" (Jarrett) – 2:04
Personnel
= Musicians =
= Technical personnel =
- Manfred Eicher – producer
- Kurt Rapp – mixing
- Martin Wieland – mixing engineer
- Barbara Wojirsch – cover design and layout
References
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