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Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Keith Jarrett, McCoy Tyner: Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Keith Jarrett, McCoy Tyner
by Lawrence Peryer
Atlantic Records issued this collection 1976, featuring two tracks each from four of the most important pianists in the post-bop era. Excepting one piece, each pianist is represented here in trio format. The Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea offerings are from their own 1966 sessions as leaders. Jarrett contributes two original compositions and is joined by drummer Paul Motian and bassist Charlie Haden in pleasurable but somewhat conservative outings. Corea brings two different lineups: ...
Continue ReadingKeith Jarrett / Charlie Haden: Jasmine
by Joe Alterman
Keith Jarrett, like Sonny Rollins, is quite hard to pin down. Like the iconic saxophonist, for many years now, the equally legendary pianist has been leaning towards the songs of his youth, and even earlier. Compared with their song choices of, say, twenty years ago, it would seem that these players have become more conservative over the years; that is, however, simply not true. Again, like Rollins, Jarrett's improvisations have evolved through the years, with an even greater searching and ...
Continue ReadingKeith Jarrett - Charlie Haden: Jasmine
by AAJ Italy Staff
Jarrett e Haden si sono incontrati in diverse occasioni negli anni Settanta, ma mai in duo, quindi Jasmine può essere considerata -anche solo per questo- una novità nell'ormai omologata produzione jarrettiana che da molti anni si limita al trio, ad altre centellinate sortite solistiche e poco altro. Del resto il pianista nei suoi quarantacinque anni di carriera ha scremato con acume e estrema selettività non solo un'estetica personale ma anche le sue frequentazioni. Tra i jazzisti sembra trovare le sue ...
Continue ReadingKeith Jarrett: Trio, Solo & Duo
by Ken Dryden
Keith JarrettStandards in Sweden I & IIBlue Music Group2010 Keith JarrettParis/London: TestamentECM2009 Keith JarrettJasmineECM2010 Though one of the most lyrically gifted pianists of his generation, Keith Jarrett has been one of the players that jazz fans either love or hate. Predominately heard with his working trio, bassist Gary Peacock ...
Continue ReadingKeith Jarrett / Charlie Haden: Jasmine
by Dan McClenaghan
In the world of jazz, it's often said that “live is better." The immediacy and spontaneity of a living, breathing, and hopefully rapt audience can lend electricity to a recording foray. For pianist Keith Jarrett, this may be truer than it is for most artists. His Standards Trio, with bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Jack DeJohnette has been an almost exclusively “recorded live affair," other than the notable exceptions of his initial 1983 session with the group that resulted in ...
Continue ReadingKeith Jarrett / Charlie Haden: Jasmine
by John Kelman
As close to a direct pipeline to the heart as anything, it's hard for music to be anything but intimate reflection of events transpiring in a musician's life. Pianist Keith Jarrett's last release--the stunning triple-disc Testament--Paris / London (ECM, 2009)--was, self-admittedly, impacted by the pianist's “incredibly vulnerable emotional state," but resulted in some of his deepest, most moving solo improvisations yet. Recorded in 2007, the year before the shows from which Testament was culled, the song choices on Jasmine--Jarrett's first ...
Continue ReadingKeith Jarrett: Testament - Paris/London
by AAJ Italy Staff
Parlare di un nuovo disco di piano solo in concerto di Keith Jarrett comporta il rischio di ripetersi molto maggiore di quello che corre il pianista nel riproporre le sue improvvisazioni concertistiche. Infatti, anche se lo schema seguito nei due concerti di Parigi e Londra di fine 2008, proposti ora dalla ECM in questo cofanetto di 3 CD, ricalca quello inaugurato dopo la sosta forzata dovuta ai problemi di sindrome da affaticamento cronico e già documentato su disco in Radiance ...
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