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Pianist Enlargement
by Jeff Fitzgerald, Genius
We're celebrating Keith Jarrett's 70th Birthday with the republication of this October 2003 Genius Guide to Jazz article. A recent AAJ poll reveals that if you were to ask the average American to name the most influential living jazz pianist, 89.4% of them would giggle like a schoolgirl because the word “pianist" sounds naughty when you say it out loud. So then. Keith Jarrett, considered by virtually the entire cast of The ...
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by John Kelman
It's been four years since pianist Keith Jarrett, an ECM recording artist since the early '70s, last released a solo piano recording, 2011's Rio. While Rio's more consistently buoyant, optimistic nature reflected similar changes in Jarrett's life, it was not a recording that, for example, ranked as highly as Concerts: Bregenz / Munich , issued, in 2013, in its entirety for the first time on CD since its original 1982 vinyl release. Jarrett's well-documented encounter with Chronic Fatigue ...
Continue ReadingKeith Jarrett, Charlie Haden, Paul Motian: Hamburg '72
by Luca Canini
Un paio di premesse. Doverose: per onestà intellettuale e per profondità di campo. La prima: da un pezzo ho smesso di emozionarmi per l'ennesimo disco di Keith Jarrett. Gli ultimi flebili sussulti risalgono al 2000, al doppio Whisper Not, prova di gran classe pur nell'ambito di un virtuosismo che da tempo si era già fatto maniera, cristallizzato in una visione orizzontale e funerea del jazz. Da allora solo sbadigli, disappunto e un crescente fastidio per le lodi ...
Continue ReadingKeith Jarrett/Charlie Haden/Paul Motian: Keith Jarrett/Charlie Haden/Paul Motian: Hamburg '72
by Karl Ackermann
Early on in Keith Jarrett's relationship with ECM (the label had released the solo Facing You in 1971), the pianist was recording for three different labels and dabbling in multiple group formations including this trio. In retrospect it's almost unimaginable that a better triad could have existed in comparison to that of Hamburg '72. Jarrett--adding flute, soprano sax and a bit of percussion to his piano performance--bassist Charlie Haden and drummer Paul Motian were the quintessential combo, pulling on their ...
Continue ReadingKeith Jarrett/Charlie Haden/Paul Motian: Hamburg '72
by John Kelman
With Sleeper: Tokyo, April 16, 1979 (2012) and Magico: Carta de Amor (2012), ECM Records began digging into its archives, unearthing two live recordings that revealed even more about a collection of artists whose reputations were already plenty secure as some of the label's most important from its early years--in the first case, pianist Keith Jarrett's Scandinavian-centric “Belonging Quartet," with saxophonist Jan Garbarek, bassist Palle Danielsson and drummer Jon Christensen; in the second, the Transatlantic trio of Norway's Garbarek, Brazilian ...
Continue ReadingKeith Jarrett al Parco della Musica, Roma
by Mario Calvitti
Parco della Musica Roma 11.07.2014 Anche se non fa più tanto parlare di sè come in passato, ogni concerto di Keith Jarrett merita lo status di evento, tanto più quando, come in questo caso, il pianista si esibisce in solitudine. Ogni concerto è unico e irripetibile, impostato, come consuetudine ormai consolidata dopo quarant'anni (il primo live pubblicato, il famoso Koln Concert, risale al 1975, ma era già stato preceduto da altri concerti) all'insegna di una ...
Continue ReadingKeith Jarrett, Charlie Haden: Last Dance
by Mario Calvitti
Dopo una decina d'anni di stretta e continua collaborazione, tra il 1967 di Life Between the Exit Signs (esordio da leader del ventenne pianista in trio) e il 1976 di Eyes of the Heart e Survivors Suite (ultimi frutti del cosiddetto 'American Quartet'), le strade di Keith Jarrett e Charlie Haden erano rimaste separate per più di trent'anni fino a inizio 2007, quando in occasione della realizzazione di un documentario sul bassista i due si sono ritrovati a suonare insieme. ...
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