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Keith Jarrett: Sleeper
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il cosiddetto quartetto europeo di Keith Jarrett non è mai stato un gruppo stabile. Nei cinque anni della sua esistenza (1974-79) ha suonato solo in occasione di tre tour (europeo nel 1974, europeo/americano nel 1977 e giapponese/americano nel 1979) e ha realizzato altrettanti album ufficiali, i primi due realizzati in studio (Belonging e My Song) e il terzo dal vivo (Nude Ants) a documentare l'ultimo concerto del quartetto, tenuto al Village Vanguard di New York. A queste scarse testimonianze discografiche ...
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by John Kelman
While ECM has, in recent years, been in the process of getting some of its older titles back in print through its Old & New Masters Edition series of box sets--some, like the music on Norwegian bassist Arild Andersen's Green Into Blue--Early Quartets (2010), seeing release on CD for the first time--the German label has avoided adopting the habit of so many others by steering clear of including previously unissued music from the sessions. Nor has the label fallen into ...
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by Karl Ackermann
On occasion, Keith Jarrett's persona has overshadowed his creative contributions to music. Köln Concert (ECM, 1975) represented a defining benchmark for the legions who discovered jazz through it almost forty years ago. But while that seminal work was brilliant, it was not the virtuoso pianist best solo work. The live, spontaneously improvised Rio may not only be his personal best, but is also a flawless documentation of Jarrett's scope and understanding of composition and presentation. With fifteen compact pieces, the ...
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by Hrayr Attarian
Rio documents one of Keith Jarrett's improvised concerts for which the pianist is famous. Like most of his dozen or so such albums, the title refers to the location where it was recorded, but the similarity ends there, since the two-disc set is a very unique work. 36 years after his groundbreaking The Köln Concert (ECM, 1975), Jarrett has come out with another masterpiece which, with time, will most certainly become a classic. While the former record ...
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by AAJ Italy Staff
Sembra incredibile, ma la nuova formula dei concerti di piano solo inaugurata da Keith Jarrett con il Carnegie Hall Concert, al rientro sulle scene da solista dopo la pausa forzata, riesce a dare origine a dischi che sembrano ogni volta migliori dei precedenti. E' così anche per questo Rio, pubblicato a soli sei mesi dalla registrazione, avvenuta il 9 Aprile di quest'anno al Teatro Municipale di Rio de Janeiro. Una spinta decisiva è stata data dallo stesso pianista, che subito ...
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by Orlando Bird
Keith Jarrett's first solo piano album, Facing You (ECM, 1972), came out nearly forty years ago; since then he's become the high priest of piano improvisation, famed for his ability to walk onstage and, as a bemused Vladimir Ashkenazy put it, “play all the right notes" on the spot. Koln Concert (ECM, 1975) has sold almost 4 million copies, attracting listeners from far beyond the loyal enclaves of Soho and Greenwich Village. If jazz has any superstars, he's one of ...
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by John Kelman
If music is a reflection of where we live, it must also be a reflection of where we are at any given moment. As much as the undercurrent redolent of an artist's home can often be heard, a live performance can equally draw inspiration from where it is, especially if it's a place with its own musical tradition. There's little doubting the intrinsic Americanism of pianist Keith Jarrett on Rio--his first solo piano recording since Testament (ECM, 2009), where two ...
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