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Keith Jarrett: Testament - Paris / London
by Mark Corroto
For fans, music critics, and musicians, the music of pianist Keith Jarrett can be like a dopamine release in the brain. Like any pleasurable activity --sex, drugs, food--listening to Jarrett's music releases a neurotransmitter chemical in the brain that reinforces the pleasure systems of the body. Pick any spot in his nearly 50-year career and fans will tell you about their first encounter and the visceral response they had to his music. For this writer, it was Bop-Be (Impulse!, 1977), ...
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by John Kelman
What makes a performance release-worthy? There are those who would like to see any and all recordings made by an artist released in some fashion, and with the advent of digital downloads there are artists doing just that. Still, as the old adage says, “just because you can doesn't mean you should." Greater discretion may, indeed, undoubtedly be the better part of valor. Having released the mammoth ten-LP (now six-CD) Sun Bear Concerts (ECM, 1978), it's clear that ...
Continue ReadingKeith Jarrett – Gary Peacock – Jack DeJohnette: Yesterdays
by AAJ Italy Staff
Keith Jarrett. Sempre lui. Amato o discusso, ma comunque imprescindibile. Questo suo nuovo album, disponibile anche come doppio vinile (il primo pubblicato dall'ECM dopo una pausa di 15 anni), registrato come molti altri in Giappone e dal vivo, è il quarto tratto dai concerti che il trio ha tenuto nel 2001. Anno che a questo punto si configura come uno dei più prolifici e felici nella produzione jarrettiana. Standards, come sempre. E dunque, come sempre, si possono replicare all'infinito gli ...
Continue ReadingKeith Jarrett's Return To Carnegie Hall
by John Allaster
Keith Jarrett Solo Piano Improvisations Carnegie Hall New York, New York January 29th 2009
Every time Keith Jarrett walks onto the stage of a concert hall to perform improvisational concerts, he and the audience are taking a mutual risk--one that is in stark contrast to most others. Jarrett has no safety net, no backup group, no rhythm section, and no repertoire. Only his passion and perseverance, in the face of absolute ...
Continue ReadingKeith Jarrett / Gary Peacock / Jack DeJohnette: Yesterdays
by John Kelman
2001 was clearly a banner year for pianist Keith Jarrett and his quarter century-old Standards Trio. Two shows recorded a week apart, have already been released-- The Out-of-Towners (ECM, 2004) and the stellar My Foolish Heart (ECM, 2007), where the trio expanded its encyclopedic approach to the standards repertoire to include some serious stride and ragtime chops. Recorded three months earlier, Yesterdays represents yet another high water mark. No matter how well-heeled some of the material is, there's always a ...
Continue ReadingKeith Jarrett / Gary Peacock / Jack DeJohnette: Setting Standards - New York Sessions
by Nenad Georgievski
Keith Jarrett / Gary Peacock / Jack DeJohnetteSetting Standards - New York SessionsECM Records2008
There are plenty of pianists in this world who are masters of their instruments, but no one plays the piano like Keith Jarrett. In a career that has been going forward and upward for 40 years, there are plenty of anniversaries for various bands and landmark albums--Jarrett has enjoyed one of the most fulfilling careers ...
Continue ReadingKeith Jarrett Trio Returns to the Kimmel Center: "The Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Tour"
by Victor L. Schermer
Keith Jarrett Trio The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Verizon Hall Philadelphia, PA September 19, 2008
The universally acclaimed Keith Jarrett Trio returned for its third visit to the Kimmel Center as part of its "Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Tour" and to kick off the new season of Citibank-sponsored jazz events. I reviewed the Trio's last performance there in April, 2004. The current performance was similar in that it featured a host of standards, ... Continue Reading
