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by Bob Osborne
On this show live music from Keith Jarrett, who recently reached his 80th year, plus a treasure trove of Ivo Perelman, both old and new recordings, also a selection of brand new releases.Playlist Keith Jarrett “New Vienna Part IV" from New Vienna (ECM) 00:00 Shamek Farrah “Umoja Suite" from First Impressions (Strata East/Mack Avenue) 05:30 Jane Ira Bloom “Cry Without An Alphabet" from Songs In Space (Outline) 12:39 Ivo Perelman, Joe Morris “Wee Hours" from Blue (Leo Records) ...
Continue ReadingKeith Jarrett: New Vienna
by Jack Kenny
The evening began with extraordinary anticipation as the Golden Hall filled to capacity, creating an atmosphere of reverent expectation for what many in the audience understood would be a rare opportunity to hear one of jazz's most celebrated improvisers in an optimal acoustic environment. However, the concert's opening moments quickly revealed the dynamics that often characterize Keith Jarrett's live performances, as the pianist's demands took center stage in a dramatic standoff with audience behavior. Upon entering the stage ...
Continue ReadingKeith Jarrett: New Vienna
by Mike Jurkovic
What accolade has not been heaped upon the eighty-year-old Keith Jarrett and the music he has bestowed upon the world? So, without embarrassing and overbearing hyperbole, New Vienna is another of those very special recordings Jarrett sculpts from silence with an integral artistry and frequency that, some fifty-odd years after he began this solo journey, still stuns greater minds. Recorded live in July of 2016 at Austria's storied Musikverein (home of the Vienna Philharmonic and the main stage ...
Continue ReadingKeith Jarrett: The Old Country: More from the Deer Head Inn
by Alberto Bazzurro
Disco come sempre di gran classe, questo, inciso il 16 settembre 1992 al Deer Head Inn di Delaware Water Gap, Pennsylvania, con Paul Motian in luogo del “canonico" Jack DeJohnette, ma con immutate le stimmate del già celeberrimo (nonché celebratissimo) standard trio di un Keith Jarrett all'epoca quarantasettenne e nel pieno della sua maturità tecnico-espressiva. Il materiale, che va a integrare quanto già edito ormai quasi trentun anni fa in At the Deer Head Inn (il sottotitolo ...
Continue ReadingKeith Jarrett: The Old Country: More from the Deer Head Inn
by Mario Calvitti
Già da alcuni anni l'attività pianistica di Keith Jarrett si è forzatamente interrotta per motivi legati alle condizioni di salute dell'artista, colpito da ictus, ma la sua musica continua a venire pubblicata con novità discografiche provenienti dagli archivi ECM, alternando le esecuzioni jazzistiche a quelle classiche con cadenza più o meno annuale. Questo nuovo album rappresenta un'aggiunta importante alla sua discografia, dando dopo 30 anni un seguito all'album At the Deer Head Inn con la pubblicazione di otto brani inediti ...
Continue ReadingKeith Jarrett: The Old Country: More from the Deer Head Inn
by Jack Kenny
Keith Jarrett remarked as he listened to a tape of the session: “I think that you can hear on this tape, what jazz is all about." What did he mean? Was he reacting to criticisms of his long-form improvisations? Was it because he was in a small venue that prioritized jazz? Of course, you can hear “what jazz is all about." Major musicians accompanied him: bassist Gary Peacock, Paul Motian, a master drummer he had not played with ...
Continue ReadingKeith Jarrett: The Old Country: More from the Deer Head Inn
by Mike Jurkovic
Ahhh... the Standards Trio returns to the Poconos, or more specifically, the century and a half old Deer Head Inn, the site of the great At the Deer Head Inn (ECM,1994), and rouses all spirits with The Old Country: More from the Deer Head Inn.Celebrating a set of circumstances--Keith Jarrett was sixteen when he first played at the Deer Head Inn and at the time of this renowned gig it had been sixteen years since last jamming with ...
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