Sun Bear Concerts (live compilation album)
by Keith Jarrett

Sun Bear Concerts by Keith Jarrett
(Live album)
Year: 1978
Overall rank: 5,799th   
Average Rating: 
79/100 (from 19 votes)
     
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1978 (102nd)
Award Top albums of the 1970s (932nd)
Award Best albums of all time (5,799th)

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Keith Jarrett bestography

Sun Bear Concerts is ranked 2nd best out of 54 albums by Keith Jarrett on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Keith Jarrett is The Köln Concert which is ranked number 870 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,983.

Keith Jarrett album bestography « Higher ranked (870th)
The Köln Concert
This album (5,799th)
Sun Bear Concerts
Lower ranked (7,285th) »
Solo Concerts: Bremen / Lausanne

(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).

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Overall rank: 5,799th | 1970s rank: 932nd | 1978 rank: 102nd

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79/100 (from 19 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 78.7/100, a mean average of 78.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 82.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 20.8.

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From 08/16/2023 17:05 | #298649
A mind-blowing thing. You can listen to it anywhere, anytime, I listened to this while on the train and watching the August summer days beauty passing by the windows, magical music
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From 09/02/2020 14:00 | #257679
The Kyoto concert ranks with the best in Jarrett's career (I would rank it at the top, tied perhaps with Bremen/Lausanne). Several of the others here are excellent as well. As a package, it captures Jarrett at the height of his powers.
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From 07/21/2017 12:31 | #194725
This is a massive work - clocking around 6.5 hours! - by improvisation master Jarrett. It is hard listening to it in one go due to its enormous length but the music in it is all worth it, so go for it. I've been listening to this throughout the week - one or two tracks per day - usually at nighttime and I found the work pretty impressive. One of the best 1978 releases (record in 1976).
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