MusicStrands :: Keith Jarrett pianist keith jarrett has carved out a unique place among comtemporary improvisingmusicians. After a brief mid 60s stint with Art Blakey, jarrett joined http://www.musicstrands.com/action/detailArtist/artistId/1208
Extractions: Dusted Reviews Keith Jarrett / Gary Peacock / Jack DeJohnette - Always Let Me Go email address A Taste of Ra - A Taste of Ra Chris Abrahams - Thrown Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow Steffen Basho-Junghans - Unknown Music II: Transwarp Meditation ... Susumu Yokota - Symbol Artist: Keith Jarrett / Gary Peacock / Jack DeJohnette Album: Always Let Me Go Label: ECM Review date: Apr. 16, 2003 Always Let Me Go , a double disc compendium of concert recordings released in 2002, advances the winning streak and once again substantiates why Jarrett holds the figurative keys to the ECM kingdom. Though a successor to last years two-disc offering of concert-rendered standards, this set actually has more in common with Inside Out , released in 2001. The latter set visited the trio veering away from their usual diet of standards and seeking out the fresh repast of spontaneous improvisation. This time out the goal seems the same, but the resulting music is anything but rote. Jarretts infamous vocalese surfaces routinely as a fourth voice on stage, lacing and mimicking his lines on the piano in a fashion that annoys some listeners and amuses others. Peacock and DeJohnette appear at ease with their employers idiosyncratic behavior and focus instead on conjuring impromptu spirits from their respective divining rods of bass and drums. The majority of other pieces, while shorter, still hover around the 14-minute range in size and scope. Of these Tributaries and Tsunami really stand out. On the former, the sparse-stepping patter of DeJohnettes cymbals starts a journey that evolves exponentially in terms of density and momentum. Moving from modest beginnings into a dark, portentous groove dominated by stabbing block chords and the corpulent ostinato of Peacocks bass, the piece is awash in an almost angry dysphoria. Tsunami highlights Jarretts agility behind the ivories at its onset before swirling around a comparatively tight tonal center. The close repartee of his partners pushes the pianist further as he races through a litany of laddered lines. Later, DeJohnettes tribal-toned beats bring the piece to a fever pitch.
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Extractions: Dusted Reviews Keith Jarrett - Radiance email address A Taste of Ra - A Taste of Ra Chris Abrahams - Thrown Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow Steffen Basho-Junghans - Unknown Music II: Transwarp Meditation ... Susumu Yokota - Symbol Artist: Keith Jarrett Album: Radiance Label: ECM Review date: Jun. 2, 2005 Solo albums necessitate a prominence of ego. Alone, without a band as sounding board, an artist must depend solely on his own devices and ingenuity to carry off a program of music. A chief challenge lies in preventing this self-reliance from devolving into self-absorption. Pianist Keith Jarrett has wrestled with this problem for much of his career, occasionally toppling over into autocratic loftiness to the chagrin of both fans and critics. The self-inflating admonishments that pepper his pronouncements to an insouciant Village Vanguard crowd on Fort Yawuh are still off-putting today. Radiance flips the calendar forward three decades, but the vestigial evidence of the same ego-driven tropes still cling tenaciously to Jarretts music. The program comprises music from two Japanese concerts recorded three days apart in 2002. The bulk of the set, all of the first disc and roughly a third of the second, documents an extemporaneous corpus where one piece dictates the content of its successor. As Jarrett himself describes it: everything on these discs is completely improvised. That dictum unfortunately leads to a fair bit of tedium as Jarretts fingers parse out patterns that range from the repetitious to nigglingly prolix. Several audience members add their own aural stamps to the canvas with inopportune coughs. Jarretts own penchant for wordless moaning as underscore to his peregrinations also muddies the music.
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Extractions: Label: Label-Name This double CD, recorded live in Paris, captures pianist Keith Jarrett, bassist Gary Peacock, and drummer Jack DeJohnette in the act of raising jazz trio performance to a higher level of interaction and execution. Of course, they've done this before too, but Whisper Not is nonetheless a revelation. As usual, Jarrett accepts the challenge of playing standard tunes without falling back on standard approaches to playing them a tougher nut to crack even than free improvisation. On uptempo bebop titles as well as vocal-oriented material, he plays with an ecstatic lyricism, threading long melodic statements through spaces untouched by his sparse chording. His solos unwind in single lines through chorus after chorus, only occasionally hitting octaves or kicking into double-time; it's his inventiveness and sheer musicality, rather than the effect of his technique, that keep his performance fresh. If highlights can be isolated, they may be Jarrett's unaccompanied moments on several cuts. These suggest a certain show-offiness that contradicts the collective energy of the group, but so what? Whether as simple as the moody bitonal chords that usher in "'Round Midnight" or the long, legato flow over a gospel ostinato on "What Is This Thing Called Love," such moments define virtuosity in improvisation. And his denouement at the end of "Prelude to a Kiss" just might be the most beautiful thing he's ever put on disc.
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Extractions: Expired - In Walked Bud mp3 The mp3s are here for two weeks for the promotion of the artists. These files are highly compressed so buy the cds - they sound better. If you have any claim to the music and want it removed email me at glen at tekzen dot net. In 1949, Leonard Feather published a book called Inside Be-Bop . The book didn't say much about Monk. What was written about him was dismissive and a little mean-spirited, but insightful. I love one passage about Monk - and not just with a smug smirk about the past - because Feather observes a lot of the stuff that makes Monk so brilliant and cool. He just doesn't get the fact that it's brilliant and cool. Maybe Feather could argue that Monk was not a major influence in bebop, but, from today's vantage point, it's beside the point. There can be no argument that Monk was a major influence in music. Here is the passage from the 1949 book (and why I thought In Walked Bud was a good Monk composition for today):
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Extractions: Jazz pianist Keith Jarrett will play a solo concert at Carnegie Hall on September 26, according to a spokesperson for ECM, his record company. The appearance was announced during a performance of Jarrett's trio at Carnegie on June 22. Jarrett stopped giving his trademark solo concerts, which are entirely improvised, when he became ill in 1996. He returned to solo performance with a series of concerts in Japan in 2002, two of which are documented on his recent album Radiance . According to ECM, the September concert will mark his first solo appearance in North America since 1995.
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Extractions: in partnership with In any conversation about music, bringing up pianist Keith Jarrett's name is sure to stir up a lively debate. The 58-year-old has appeared on more than 130 recordings, which range from him playing electric jazz-fusion music with Miles Davis to improvising marathon solo concerts. It was during these concerts that he began to explore every possible way to extract different sounds from the piano, including plucking the strings in a harplike fashion and slapping on the wood with the palms of his hands as if it were a conga drum. His 1975 solo recording The K¶ln Concert drew millions of new fans for Jarrett and still stands out as a musical milestone from that era. In 1983, he formed his Standards Trio, with bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Jack DeJohnette, which just finished celebrating its 20th anniversary of exploring the Great American Songbook, topped off by ...
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Extractions: Il Messaggero's critic was confident that an album would emerge from the proceedings: "Keith Jarrett records all his concerts, the very best of which become records - as was the case with The Köln Concert, Paris Concert, Vienna Concert.... The La Scala concert must surely merit such documentation, for the pianist was in tremendous form. This was Jarrett at his most convincing, his touch by turns concise, secure, carressing, the famous harmonies present in abundance, his control of colours and sounds absolute. The rolling, flowing, extended piano improvisations by nowembody a genre of their own, in which Jarrett can make music to touch every heart." La Repubblica: "It was more than the expected triumph. Keith Jarrett's performance was an explosion of contagious music-making with never a hint of doubt or reserve... And when the music was over the celebration continued in all the meeting places that surround the city centre: the event had captured the imagination of the public in a way that even the opening of the season at La Scala had not done. Unquestionably, with the "alien" Jarrett, a visitor from another culture, La Scala had scored a success such as it had not seen for quite some time...First and foremost because Jarrett is a pioneer of a "planetary music" without borders or taboos. As a total improvisor he has no equals in the boldness of his transcultural imagination. His idiosyncratic piano improvisations are as aleatoric and unpredictable as they are mysterious...An evening which has already become history: Keith Jarrett at La Scala!"
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Extractions: Keith Jarrett is probably the most influential jazz pianist living today: his concerts have made him world famous. He was a child prodigy who gave his first solo performance at the age of seven. In the 1960s he played with the Jazz Messengers and then the Charles Lloyd Quartet, touring Europe, Asia and Russia. He played electric keyboards with Miles Davis at the beginning of the 1970s, and went on to lead two different jazz groups - one American and one European. He straddles practically every form of twentieth century music and he has performed classical music as well as jazz. Jarrett has revolutionized the whole concept of what a solo pianist can do. His albums such as Solo Concerts (at Lausanne and Bremen), Belonging The Koln Concert and My Song have gained him a worldwide following.
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Extractions: forums ... Email Newsletter music Jazz legend Keith Jarrett needs no introductions. by Nate Chinen In jazz parlance, a "standard" is a song in the collective repertoire, rendered familiar by years of interpretation. It was in 1983 that Jarrett, along with bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Jack DeJohnette, recorded Los Angeles Times The Melody at Night, With You Whisper Not Changes have crept into the repertoire as well. Whisper Not features a preponderance of bebop tunes, which Jarrett plays with a skittering quicksilver touch. Meanwhile, Inside Out Invisible Nature Amaryllis While Jarrett describes Inside Out The Keith Jarrett Trio (sold out), Fri., March 1, 8 p.m. Verizon Hall, 260 S. Broad St., 215-893-1999. cover story news opinion arts ... contact us
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Extractions: All Music Guide The new double disc Radiance , the first solo piano improvisations that Jarrett has recorded in ten years ( La Scala Radiance is not totally improvised. According to Jarrett, it is made up of discrete pieces drawn from each previous piece. It is a work of found structure. Each piece exists only because of the one before it. I would expect nothing less from the deeply spiritual Jarrett. Also, this solo concert is a bit less melodic and motif driven than his other famous solo works like Solo Concerts , and Sun Bear Concerts There is no break in intensity and Jarrett never relents on pure musicianship. At the risk of sounding like the hyperbolic, fawning critic, this album really does stand alongside some of the greatest solo piano works of all time. Jarrett has said that the best improvisations are always made when you have no ideas; that the solo concert is like another world that has its own rules. On this record Jarrett devastates these rules. Its intensity is unmatched by almost any artist today.
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