Spirits is a solo double album by Keith Jarrett recorded at his home studio over May–June 1985 in New Jersey and released on ECM September the following year, featuring Jarrett performing on various instruments he had on hand: two flutes, three sets of tablas, a shaker, six recorders, his voice, a soprano saxophone, a piano, a guitar, a glockenspiel, a tambourine, a cowbell, and a bağlama.

According to Edward Strickland in his book "American Composers: Dialogues on Contemporary Music"[2]After abandoning the solo concerts in early 1984, Jarrett began releasing albums of jazz standards with Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette, with whom he continues touring and recording.

The music on this two-disc set has its own direct depth and beauty—the glorious rhythm and Pakistani flute on 'Spirits 21' for example, or the liturgical vocal drones and haunting soprano saxophone on 'Spirits 17'—but also stands as a record of a unique revelatory experience.

"[5] NPR's Tom Moon called the album "an experimental (and unfairly disregarded) transfixing two-disc vision quest recorded between May and July 1985 by Jarrett alone in a studio in New Jersey".

[6] In a three-star review for AllMusic, jazz critic Ron Wynn called the album, "More a technical showcase than a musically worthy enterprise.

In the original liner notes, Keith Jarrett states:These tapes were made in my studio in New Jersey without an engineer and without anything but cassette recorders.