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Keith 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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by John Kelman
For the past 30 years--barring a few diversions into classical repertoire, unexpected instrumentation like 1986's Book of Ways and a couple of home-cooked solo albums that, as with the 1986 recording No End (ECM, 2013), were out-of-character recordings where he overdubbed all the instruments himself--pianist Keith Jarrett has been working two contexts and two contexts only: solo piano performances that, with the exception of the home-recorded The Melody at Night, With You (ECM, 1999), have all been recorded live; and ...
Continue ReadingMiles at the Fillmore - Miles Davis 1970: The Bootleg Series Vol. 3
by Ian Patterson
It would have been inconceivable for Miles Davis in his post-sabbatical, 1980s reincarnation to have been billed as “an extra added attraction" on any festival or concert hall billing, but that's how it was when the trumpeter--already a legend--played his first ever gigs at the Filmore East, supporting Neil Young & Crazy Horse and the Steve Miller Band in March 1970. The initiative to stage Davis at the hallowed rock venue came from CBS President Clive Davis, no doubt with ...
Continue ReadingMiles Davis: Miles at the Fillmore - Miles Davis 1970: The Bootleg Series Vol. 3
by Doug Collette
Intensely intoxicating as much as it is wholly hypnotic, Miles Davis Live at the Fillmore becomes increasingly so through the course of its four compact discs. More than doubling the playing time of the original four-sided vinyl release, The Bootleg Series Vol. 3 posits an argument the band(s) of this era were among the finest ever led by the man with the horn. If that sounds hyperbolic, it's difficult not to rhapsodize about this archive series in general ...
Continue ReadingMiles at the Fillmore - Miles Davis 1970: The Bootleg Series Vol. 3
by Maurizio Comandini
Finalmente la Sony Legacy pubblica ufficialmente e integralmente i quattro concerti del gruppo di Miles Davis al Fillmore East, mitico teatro posto più o meno all'incrocio fra la Sesta Strada Est e la Seconda Avenue a New York, nell'East Village. Era la metà del mese di giugno del 1970, il capolavoro Bitches Brew era stato pubblicato da pochi mesi e il gruppo era in forma straordinaria, a cominciare dal leader. In realtà, questi concerti erano stati immediatamente ...
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by John Kelman
By the time Bitches Brew (Columbia) was released in April, 1970—and despite receiving a 5-star review in Downbeat Magazine—trumpeter Miles Davis was already under fire from mainstream jazz critics as having “sold out," despite the densely constructed, improvisationally unfettered music being as unapproachable to an audience looking for accessible music as anything he'd done with his increasingly liberated second great quintet of the 1960s. Sure, there were rock rhythms and, perhaps more disturbingly to the delicate ears of its detractors, ...
Continue ReadingKeith Jarrett: Arbour Zena
by John Kelman
Given his overall focus on just two projects over the past three decades--with the exception of relatively rare diversions into the classical world or recordings like Jasmine (2010), an intimate duo date with bassist Charlie Haden--it's easy to forget that there was a time when pianist Keith Jarrett was not just one of the most innovative performers on the planet, but a writer constrained by no stylistic boundaries. These days, focusing as he does on performing solo and with his ...
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