Recorded at Munich’s Philharmonie on 16 July, 2016, the last night of his European tour, Jarrett arrives at the piano stool fully primed and ready to go. This double-album, recorded in Munich, the home of ECM, appropriately coincides with the label’s 50th birthday celebrations. There is, perhaps, good reason for this since the centre-piece of this release, a spontaneously conceived 12-part suite, can comfortably stand alongside some of Jarrett’s finest solo albums, such as Köln Concert, Sun Bear Concerts, The Carnegie Hall Concert (where he changed his concept from long, uninterrupted recitals to smaller, more condensed ‘suites’), Rio, and La Fenice. From the opening ‘Part I’, a 16-minute storm of thundering polyrhythms and powerful cadences, the muse certainly seemed to have descended on Jarrett that evening. Each piece seems to flash by brimming with allusions – 20th century European composers, Shostakovich (a favourite) and maybe Hindemith? There are pastoral interludes (‘Part III’) with gospel allusions before the rapid-fire climax of ‘Part XII’ that again seems to pass in a blur of ideas. Since The Carnegie Hall Concert (September 2005) Jarrett had taken to rounding out his concerts by drawing on a rare or unusual standard for encores. Here he does three, ‘Answer Me, My Love’, ‘It’s A Lonesome Old Town’ and – not for the first time ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’. Of the three, perhaps the most memorable is ‘It’s A Lonesome Old Town’, where Jarrett really does seem to wear his heart on his sleeve.