He was always there. Like a trip to Liberty Island, a ride on the Cyclone, or a visit to the Frick Collection, there are things a New Yorker believes he should definitely get around to checking out, at some point. There would always be time to see Paul Motian at the Village Vanguard. After all, he was always there. His seeming ubiquity made news of his death hit all the harder. He won't always be there? The fuck is that? Also: he was eighty? Many extremely fine tributes have been written [...]
Fully improvised, live solo piano from the guy who made it famous-proving why he's still a master. Pianist Keith Jarrett is the most brilliant and essential jazz musician of the last 40 years. Okay, that a crazy-bold statement. Jarrett is not the "best" maybe, and certainly not the easiest to enjoy or to fit into a category. But in many ways he encompasses most essentially the turbulent and wonderful history of the music since Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Ornette Coleman passed their prime. And his new solo piano recording, Rio, is...
Keith Jarrett revisits Brazil for the first time in over two decades.
The Seattle Times (MCT) -- SEATTLE - Pianist Keith Jarrett is buzzed about his excellent new solo album, "Rio," released last week by ECM. Jarrett wrote the book on open-ended, spontaneous solo improvisation, starting with his 1971 album, "Facing You." He hit the jackpot in Rio de Janeiro in April, keying in to something utterly transparent and beyond himself. The 66-year-old Pennsylvanian brings the same sense of serendipidity and surprise to his trio with Gary Peacock (bass) and Jack DeJohnette...
What can I say, deep down I'm really just a sap. Keith Jarrett always brings it out of me and his sparse and emotionally open arranagment of Somewhere Over the Rainbow will get me every time. The video is a performance from Tokyo in 1984. If once just insn't enough, the mp3 is his encore improvisation of the tune from his 1995 La Scala concert. You dig? Keith Jarrett: Somewhere [...]
I have been pretty busy lately with my thesis and all, so i'm going to post a run down of what I have been enjoying of late. The Dear Hunter - The Colour Spectrum Vinyl There is no question that this is an epic set of music - each EP brings a different level, a different perspective and inspiration to the table and I have been enjoying the whole thing (36 tracks) immensely. Picking this up is essential. [...]
"There are only two kinds of music, good and bad." Duke Ellington made famous this quote and I firmly agree. I like to think there are redeeming qualities in every genre of music and that people who like music probably like all music, in spite of their own preconceptions. From J.S. Bach to the Iggy Pop and John Coltrane to The Unicorns , good music is good music, whatever you want to call it. All Time [...]
Nine rare live cuts from Miles Davis at the peak of his powers.
This is one of the most appealingly tender albums I have heard in a long time.
Filed under: All About Jazz For the music obsessed, every year has a musical identity that's colored by the new albums and songs that receive steady play on our various devices. I generally love doing these year-end things because it gives me a chance to go back to pieces that jumped out at the time. More than that, it's interesting to see how the music ages - some stuff sounds better now than it did at the time, other stuff that sounded great in [...]
Toronto – There are a few ways for a musician to be successful in this world. Some artists strive to keep music a personal journey. Most take this path with the understanding that they won't be the next U2 or Lady Gaga. Their creativity remains intact, but often at the expense of commercial success. On the other end of the spectrum, there are musicians that have learned how to cater to the wants and needs of the masses. Good examples of this camp include U2 and Lady Gaga. They've developed the necessary skills to create music that people like, [...]
Jarrett and Haden reunite after 30 years. Keith Jarrett - Music - Art - Reviews - Piano
Toronto - The Toronto Jazz Festival lineup has been announced and its solid. This year blends exciting young talent with a number of old masters. It's interesting is to see some acts combining the old guard with the new generation. Jazz is a music built on tradition and continuity. The music of today is built by standing on the shoulders of the giants of yesterday. It's cool to see the baton being passed. Here's a sneak-peak: Stanley Clark Band featuring Hiromi - June 28 There is little doubt that bassist Stanley [...]
Keith Jarrett - The Koln Concert, Part I One of my Christmas presents was The Koln Concert by Keith Jarrett, the biggest-selling solo jazz recording of all time with 3.5m copies, and something I'd managed to have never heard. With my diet of improv restricted to tentative forays into the spastic, plastic brilliance of the East London jazz scene, Jarrett's performance was not what I considered improv to be: psychologically probing, occasionally hostile. Instead it was florid, evangelistic, and deeply sentimental. And I mean that as the highest praise. If you're as unfamiliar [...]
SIVAD [edit] Miles Davis Live-Evil Columbia : 1971 MD, electric trumpet; John McLaughlin, electric guitar; Gary Bartz, soprano and alto sax; Keith Jarrett, electric piano; Michael Henderson, bass; Airto Moreira, percussion; Jack DeJohnette, drums. Thanks for all the insightful and provocative comments on the previous post. They've got us thinking about entry points to the music and the tunes that first got us passionate about this thing more-or-less called "jazz." For Chilly, [...]
Miles Davis's electric period was reviled during its time but has come to be seen as a cornerstone of music as diverse as post-punk and techno.
Nuovo appuntamento con i dischi in uscita della settimana. Dopo la piccola ripresa di venerdì scorso oggi arrivano diversi album interessanti. A cominciare dall' attesissimo ritorno di Bruce Springsteen di cui abbiamo tanto parlato (e che potremo ascoltare dal vivo a luglio ) e del nuovo cd dei Franz Ferdinand (a marzo live in Italia ) di cui abbiamo anticipato la scheda dettagliata . Gli amanti del buon jazz non si lasceranno sfuggire il disco newyorkese di Enrico Rava o quello del trio [...]
Keith Jarrett : Acoustic piano Jan Garbarek : Tenor and soprano saxophones Palle Danielsson : Acoustic bass Jon Christensen : Drums The quartet played this show just a few days after recording the exceptional album 'Belonging' in Oslo. track01-jarrett-quartett-oslo- 1974 track02-jarrett-quartett-oslo- 1974 track03-jarrett-quartett-oslo- 1974 track04-jarrett-quartett-oslo- 1974
Back to Jarrett : incredibly refreshing after Monday night's disappointment to be reminded, finally hearing 1972's Ruta & Daitya for the first time, that Keith was once a highly adventurous artist almost endlessly open to new sounds & textures. After two highly constrained decades, it's almost shocking to hear him neither solo nor in the standards trio (even though the mighty Jack DeJohnette is along for the ride) - & playing stunningly dense, rich, school of Miles electric [...]
The woman looked at my ticket, and her face screwed up a little. "Follow me". I did, down the aisle, through a little door, down some steps, into a toilet cubicle. She gave me a glass to press against the wall in order to try to hear the show. "This is [...]
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