Mysteries (album)
Mysteries is an album by jazz pianist Keith Jarrett recorded in two sessions in December 1975. Originally released by Impulse! in 1976, it features performances by Jarrett's 'American Quartet', which include Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden and Paul Motian along with Guilherme Franco added on percussion. The December 1975 Mysteries sessions also produced the album Shades. The album was included in the 1996 four disc "", a box-set which also included "Shades" and Jarrett's two final albums for Impulse, "Byablue" and "Bop-Be". In October 2011, "Shades" was reissued with "Mysteries" in a single disc format titled  Mysteries / Shades, as part of the "Impulse! 2-on-1" series. Background: American Quartet's last sessions (Dec. 1975-Oct. 1976). From Neil Tesser's extensive liner notes to the compilation album "": Reception. The AllMusic review by Richard S. Ginell awarded the album four generous stars (out of 5), but at the same time states "Another in Impulse's extensive series of Keith Jarrett Quintet (sic) recordings, this LP isn't one of the more coherent products of the run. It opens on a faltering note with the hopelessly diffuse and rambling "Rotation", and Everything That Lives Laments doesn't really  get going until a lyrical Vince Guaraldi-like statement from Jarrett sets the track in motion." and that "The Coltrane-ish 15-minute title track [Mysteries] has passages of meditative beauty and others of listless torpor. For completists only." On the positive camp, writing for jazz.com Ted Gioia gave the track Everything That Lives Laments a rating of 95/100 and praised it: