Ruta and Daitya

Ruta and Daitya
Ruta and Daitya
Studio album by Keith Jarrett & Jack DeJohnette
Released	1973
Recorded	May 1971
Studio	Sunset Studios; Los Angeles, CA
Genre	Jazz
Length	41:20
Label	ECM 1021 ST
Producer	Manfred Eicher
Keith Jarrett chronology
Jack DeJohnette chronology
Alternate cover

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.^[1]

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.^[2]

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."^[3]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[3]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	^[4]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz	^[5]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	^[6]
Tom Hull	B+ ()^[7]

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

Keith Jarrett – piano, electric piano, organ, flute
Jack DeJohnette – drums, percussion

Technical personnel

Manfred Eicher – producer
Kurt Rapp – mixing
Martin Wieland – mixing engineer
Barbara Wojirsch – cover design and layout

References

^ ^a ^b "Ruta and Daitya". ECM Records. Retrieved April 21, 2023.
^ Carr, Ian. Keith Jarrett: The Man and His Music (New York: Da Capo, 1992), ISBN 9780306804786 p.56, 61.
^ ^a ^b "Keith Jarrett: Ruta and Daitya". allmusic.com.
^ Larkin, Colin (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. ISBN 9780857125958. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 771. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 60. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
^ Hull, Tom (28 February 2018). "Streamnotes". Tom Hull – on the Web. Retrieved 9 July 2020.

[ecm2-1] "Ruta and Daitya". ECM Records. Retrieved April 21, 2023.

[2] Carr, Ian. Keith Jarrett: The Man and His Music (New York: Da Capo, 1992), ISBN 9780306804786 p.56, 61.

[Allmusic-3] "Keith Jarrett: Ruta and Daitya". allmusic.com.

[4] Larkin, Colin (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. ISBN 9780857125958. Retrieved 1 May 2019.

[Penguin-5] Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 771. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

[RSJRG-6] Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 60. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.

[Hull-7] Hull, Tom (28 February 2018). "Streamnotes". Tom Hull – on the Web. Retrieved 9 July 2020.

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