The Impulse Years: 1973-1974 is a 5CD box set of Keith Jarrett

Keith Jarrett

Keith Jarrett is an American pianist and composer who performs both jazz and classical music.Jarrett started his career with Art Blakey, moving on to play with Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis. Since the early 1970s he has enjoyed a great deal of success in jazz, jazz fusion, and classical music; as...

 albums, comprising Fort Yawuh

Fort Yawuh

Fort Yawuh is the first album released on the Impulse Records label by jazz pianist Keith Jarrett. Originally released in 1973, it features a live performance recorded at the Village Vanguard on February 24, 1973, by Jarrett, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden, Paul Motian, and Danny...

, Treasure Island

Treasure Island (album)

Treasure Island is the second album on the Impulse label by jazz pianist Keith Jarrett. Originally released in 1974, it features performances by Jarrett, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden, Paul Motian, and Danny Johnson....

, Death and The Flower

Death and the Flower

Death and the Flower is the third album on the Impulse label by jazz pianist Keith Jarrett. Originally released in 1974 it features performances by Jarrett's 'American Quartet' which included Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden and Paul Motian with Guilherme Franco added on percussion.-Reception:The...

and Back Hand

Backhand (album)

Back Hand is the fourth album on the Impulse label by jazz pianist Keith Jarrett. Originally released in 1974 it features performances by Jarrett's 'American Quartet' which included Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden and Paul Motian with Guilherme Franco added on percussion.Aside from its appearance in...

. The set was released in 1997 by Universal Music Group

Universal Music Group

Universal Music Group is an American music group, the largest of the "big four" record companies by its commanding market share and its multitude of global operations...

.

The music was performed by Jarrett and his affectionately-titled 'American Quartet', which consisted of Charlie Haden

Charlie Haden

Charles Edward Haden is an American jazz musician. He is a double bassist, probably best known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman...

, Paul Motian

Paul Motian

Stephen Paul Motian was an American jazz drummer, percussionist and composer of Armenian extraction.He first came to prominence in the late 1950s in the piano trio of Bill Evans, and later led several groups...

 and Dewey Redman

Dewey Redman

Dewey Redman was an American jazz saxophonist, known for performing free jazz as a bandleader, and with Ornette Coleman and Keith Jarrett....

. Additional contributions were provided by Sam Brown

Sam Brown (guitarist)

-History:Sam T. Brown's playing style was unusual in that he performed in a generally jazz-rock format, while performing in Keith Jarrett's ensembles that sometimes veered close to a free jazz style...

 (electric guitar), plus percussionists Guilherme Franco

Guilherme Franco

Guilherme Franco was born November 25 1946 in São Paulo, Brazil. He is a percussionist in the jazz and World fusion music genres.Guilherme Franco has recorded on the albums of many jazz performers such as McCoy Tyner, Lonnie Liston Smith and Woody Shaw...

 and Danny Johnson.

Aside from its appearance in this set, Back Hand has, to date, only ever been released on CD in Japan.

This set was preceded in 1996 by a four CD box set called Mysteries: The Impulse Years 1975-1976

Mysteries: The Impulse Years 1975-1976

Mysteries: The Impulse Years 1975-1976 is a 4CD collection of the Keith Jarrett albums Mysteries, Shades, Byablue and Bop-Be. The set was released in 1996 by Universal Music Group...

, comprised of Mysteries, Shades, Byablue and Bop-Be.

Track Listing - Disc 1: Fort Yawuh

1. "(If The) Misfits (Wear It)"
2. "Fort Yawuh"
3. "De Drums"
4. "Still Life, Still Life"
5. "(If The) Misfits (Wear It)" previously unreleased

Track Listing - Disc 2: Fort Yawuh

1. "Whistle Tune" previously unreleased
2. "Spoken Introduction" previously unreleased
3. "Angles (Without Edges)" previously unreleased
4. "Roads Traveled, Roads Veiled" previously unreleased (included in subsequent reissues of Fort Yawuh)
5. "De Drums" previously unreleased
6. "Melting The Ice" previously unreleased

Track listing - Disc 3: Treasure Island

1. "The Rich (and The Poor)"
2. "Blue Streak"
3. "Fullsuvollivus (Fools of All of Us)"
4. "Treasure Island"
5. "Introduction and Yaqui Indian Folk Song"
6. "Le Mistral"
7. "Angles (Without Edges)"
8. "Sister Fortune"
9. "Death And The Flower" alternate take

Track listing - Disc 4: Death and The Flower

1. "Death and The Flower"
2. "Prayer"
3. "Great Bird"
4. "Prayer" alternate take

Track listing - Disc 5: Back Hand

1. "Inflight"
2. "Kuum"
3. "Vapallia"
4. "Backhand"
5. "Victoria" (Paul Motian) previously unreleased