{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album| | name = A Multitude of Angels | type = box | artist = Keith Jarrett | cover = A Multitude of Angels - album cover.jpg | border = yes | alt = | released = November 4, 2016 | recorded = October 23–30, 1996 | venue = Modena, Ferrara, Torino, and Genova, Italy | studio = | genre = | length = 4:57:06 | label = ECM<br>{{small|ECM 2500/03}} | producer = Keith Jarrett | prev_title = Creation | prev_year = 2015 | next_title = After the Fall | next_year = 2018 | misc = {{Extra chronology | artist = Keith Jarrett solo piano | type = live | prev_title = Creation | prev_year = 2015 | title = <!-- current --> A Multitude of Angels | year = <!-- current --> 2016 | next_title = La Fenice | next_year = 2018 }} }} {{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite web|last1=Jurek|first1=Thom|title=Keith Jarrett: A Multitude of Angels|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/a-multitude-of-angels-mw0002984128|website=allmusic.com |accessdate=2 February 2017}}</ref> | rev2 = ''DownBeat'' | rev2Score = {{rating|5|5}}<ref name="DB">Oullette, Dan (February 2017) "Jarrett's Pivotal Moment". ''DownBeat''. p. 80.</ref> | rev3 = ''The Guardian'' | rev3Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="Guard">Fordham, John (November 10, 2016) [https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/nov/10/keith-jarrett-a-multitude-of-angels-review-a-career-pinnacle "Keith Jarrett: A Multitude of Angels Review – A Career Pinnacle"]. ''The Guardian''.</ref> | rev4 = ''The Irish Times'' | rev4score = {{rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite news |last=Larkin |first=Cormac |title=Keith Jarrett - A Multitude of Angels album review: a master at the pinnacle of his powers |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/keith-jarrett-a-multitude-of-angels-album-review-a-master-at-the-pinnacle-of-his-powers-1.2859184 |work=The Irish Times |accessdate=2 February 2017 |date=November 8, 2016}}</ref> | rev5 = ''Financial Times'' | rev5Score = {{rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hobart|first1=Mike|title=Keith Jarrett: A Multitude of Angels – review |url=https://www.ft.com/content/ab46e7ee-b55d-11e6-ba85-95d1533d9a62|work=Financial Times |accessdate=2 February 2017|date=December 2, 2016}}</ref> | rev6 = ''PopMatters'' | rev6score = {{rating|8|10}}<ref name="pop">{{cite web|last1=Garratt |first1=John |title=Keith Jarrett: A Multitude of Angels|url=http://www.popmatters.com/review/keith-jarrett-a-multitude-of-angels/|website=popmatters.com|accessdate=2 February 2017|date=16 December 2016}}</ref> | rev7 = ''Stereophile'' [performance] | rev7score ={{rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite web |last1=Lehnert |first1=Richard |title=Recording of January 2017: A Multitude of Angels |url=https://www.stereophile.com/content/recording-january-2017-multitude-angels |website=Stereophile |accessdate=10 March 2019 |date=15 December 2016}}</ref> |rev8 = ''The Times'' |rev8score={{rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite news|last1=Bungey |first1=John |title=Jazz: Keith Jarrett: A Multitude of Angels |url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/music/article/jazz-keith-jarrett-a-multitude-of-angels-khccqbcwv |work=The Times |access-date=10 March 2019 |date=2 December 2016}}</ref> }}
'''''A Multitude of Angels''''' is a four-disc live box set of solo piano performances by Keith Jarrett recorded in Italy over a week in October 1996 and released on ECM twenty years later.
== Music and recording == The music comes from four concerts recorded in Italy: in Modena, Ferrara, Torino, and Genova, on October 23, 25, 28, and 30, 1996, respectively.<ref name="DB" /> Jarrett recorded the concerts himself on a DAT machine.<ref name="DB" /> Each consists of one performance without breaks; these were among the last times that Jarrett took this approach to performance.<ref name="DB" /> After the concerts, he withdrew from playing in public, because of chronic fatigue syndrome.<ref name="DB" />
== Release and reception == ''A Multitude of Angels'' was released by ECM Records on November 4, 2016.<ref name="ECM">ECM Records [https://www.ecmrecords.com/catalog/1474010386 Keith Jarrett: A Multitude of Angels] accessed May 26, 2020</ref>
John Fordham of ''The Guardian'' commented that, "Jarrett has always favoured exhaustive documentation, but the intensity, variety, and astonishing technical command of these performances might well persuade devoted fans and intrigued improv enthusiasts alike of his view that these were landmark moments."<ref name="Guard" />
John Garratt of ''PopMatters'' wrote that, "The four-disc box set ''A Multitude of Angels'' is the new turning point in Jarrett's career where he pushed himself too hard. His temporary illness is our gain.... [It] tells the music world what Keith Jarrett fans already knew—that the man could be an endless fountain of music, a one-man jam-band that only needed 88 keys to balance the Law of Fate with the Law of Accident (according to his liner notes). Since that's the case, this box will not alter anyone's perception of Jarrett or change his reputation overall."<ref name="pop" />
== Track listing == {{Track listing | all_writing = Keith Jarrett except as noted | headline = Disc one: Recorded in Modena on October 23, 1996 – Teatro Comunale | total_length = 1:10:37 | title1 = Part I | length1 = 34:18 | title2 = Part II | length2 = 31:19 | title3 = Danny Boy | writer3 = Frederic Weatherly | length3 = 5:00 }}
{{Track listing | headline = Disc two: Recorded in Ferrara on October 25, 1996 – Teatro Comunale | total_length = 1:17:12 | title1 = Part I | length1 = 43:48 | title2 = Part II | length2 = 29:58 | title3 = Encore | length3 = 3:26 }}
{{Track listing | headline = Disc three: Recorded in Torino on October 28, 1996 – Teatro Regio | total_length = 1:13:58 |title1 = Part I |length1 = 42:23 |title2 = Part II |length2 = 31:35 }}
{{Track listing | headline = Disc four: Recorded in Genova on October 30, 1996 – Teatro Carlo Felice | total_length = 1:15:19 |title1 = Part I |length1 = 31:41 |title2 = Part II |length2 = 31:43 |title3 = Encore |length3 = 5:52 |title4 = Over the Rainbow |writer4 = {{hlist|E.Y. Harburg|Harold Arlen}} |length4 = 6:03 }}
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