KEITH JARRETT

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Keith Jarrett (born May 8, 1945 in Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA) is an American pianist and composer. He is considered one of the most important jazz pianists, renowned for his elaborate solo improvisations.

He began piano lessons at the age of two and played for the first time on stage at the age of seven. In 1962 he played a self-composed two-hour concert, without the benefit of any prior formal instruction in orchestration or composition. After working with a wide variety of musicians, including Chet Baker, Lee Konitz and Art Blakey, he founded his own band in 1968 with Charlie Haden and Paul Motian. In 1971-1976 Dewey Redman (saxophone) joined the group and they played under the name the American Quartet. His work with Miles Davis between 1969 and 1971 gave his career an additional boost and the oportunity to play solo concerts such as the "Köln Concert" (1975, Cologne,
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KEITH JARRETT Life Between the Exit Signs album cover 3.55 | 11 ratings
Life Between the Exit Signs
Post Bop 1968
KEITH JARRETT Restoration Ruin album cover 2.94 | 9 ratings
Restoration Ruin
Pop/Art Song/Folk 1968
KEITH JARRETT The Mourning of a Star album cover 3.61 | 9 ratings
The Mourning of a Star
Avant-Garde Jazz 1971
KEITH JARRETT Birth album cover 3.31 | 9 ratings
Birth
Avant-Garde Jazz 1972
KEITH JARRETT Expectations album cover 3.74 | 14 ratings
Expectations
Avant-Garde Jazz 1972
KEITH JARRETT Facing You album cover 3.78 | 16 ratings
Facing You
Post-Fusion Contemporary 1972
KEITH JARRETT Ruta And Daitya (with Jack Dejohnette) album cover 3.68 | 11 ratings
Ruta And Daitya (with Jack Dejohnette)
Post Bop 1973
KEITH JARRETT In the Light album cover 3.44 | 8 ratings
In the Light
Third Stream 1974
KEITH JARRETT Treasure Island album cover 3.26 | 12 ratings
Treasure Island
Post Bop 1974
KEITH JARRETT Jan Garbarek, Keith Jarrett, Palle Danielsson, Jon Christensen : Belonging album cover 3.18 | 3 ratings
Jan Garbarek, Keith Jarrett, Palle Danielsson, Jon Christensen : Belonging
Post Bop 1974
KEITH JARRETT Luminessence (with Jan Garbarek) album cover 3.50 | 7 ratings
Luminessence (with Jan Garbarek)
Third Stream 1975
KEITH JARRETT Backhand album cover 3.62 | 8 ratings
Backhand
Post Bop 1975
KEITH JARRETT Death and the Flower album cover 3.93 | 13 ratings
Death and the Flower
Avant-Garde Jazz 1975
KEITH JARRETT El Juicio (The Judgement) album cover 3.66 | 10 ratings
El Juicio (The Judgement)
Post Bop 1975
KEITH JARRETT Arbour Zena album cover 3.82 | 17 ratings
Arbour Zena
Third Stream 1976
KEITH JARRETT Mysteries album cover 3.88 | 8 ratings
Mysteries
Avant-Garde Jazz 1976
KEITH JARRETT Hymns - Spheres album cover 3.91 | 11 ratings
Hymns - Spheres
Third Stream 1976
KEITH JARRETT Shades album cover 3.81 | 8 ratings
Shades
Post Bop 1976
KEITH JARRETT The Survivors' Suite album cover 4.05 | 19 ratings
The Survivors' Suite
Avant-Garde Jazz 1977
KEITH JARRETT Staircase album cover 4.17 | 9 ratings
Staircase
Post-Fusion Contemporary 1977
KEITH JARRETT Byablue album cover 3.92 | 6 ratings
Byablue
Post Bop 1977
KEITH JARRETT My Song album cover 4.03 | 15 ratings
My Song
Post-Fusion Contemporary 1978
KEITH JARRETT Bop-Be album cover 3.50 | 8 ratings
Bop-Be
Post Bop 1978
KEITH JARRETT G.I.Gurdjieff: Sacred Hymns album cover 3.67 | 6 ratings
G.I.Gurdjieff: Sacred Hymns
Third Stream 1980
KEITH JARRETT Invocations / The Moth And The Flame album cover 4.00 | 7 ratings
Invocations / The Moth And The Flame
Third Stream 1981
KEITH JARRETT Keith Jarrett, Dennis Russell Davies ‎: Ritual album cover 4.00 | 3 ratings
Keith Jarrett, Dennis Russell Davies ‎: Ritual
Third Stream 1982
KEITH JARRETT Standards, Vol.1 album cover 4.23 | 13 ratings
Standards, Vol.1
Post Bop 1983
KEITH JARRETT Changes (with Gary Peacock & Jack DeJohnette) album cover 4.15 | 10 ratings
Changes (with Gary Peacock & Jack DeJohnette)
Post Bop 1984
KEITH JARRETT Standards, Vol.2 album cover 4.33 | 12 ratings
Standards, Vol.2
Post Bop 1985
KEITH JARRETT Spheres album cover 3.92 | 6 ratings
Spheres
Third Stream 1985
KEITH JARRETT Spirits album cover 3.78 | 9 ratings
Spirits
Post-Fusion Contemporary 1986
KEITH JARRETT Book of Ways album cover 3.67 | 6 ratings
Book of Ways
Third Stream 1987
KEITH JARRETT J.S. Bach - Das Wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch I album cover 3.81 | 8 ratings
J.S. Bach - Das Wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch I
Third Stream 1988
KEITH JARRETT J.S. Bach: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier Buch II album cover 3.33 | 6 ratings
J.S. Bach: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier Buch II
Third Stream 1991
KEITH JARRETT Keith Jarrett & Michala Petri ‎: Handel Sonatas album cover 3.00 | 3 ratings
Keith Jarrett & Michala Petri ‎: Handel Sonatas
Third Stream 1991
KEITH JARRETT Keith Jarrett & Michala Petri ‎: Bach Sonatas album cover 3.04 | 5 ratings
Keith Jarrett & Michala Petri ‎: Bach Sonatas
Third Stream 1992
KEITH JARRETT J. S. Bach - The French Suites album cover 3.00 | 5 ratings
J. S. Bach - The French Suites
Third Stream 1993
KEITH JARRETT Bye Bye Blackbird album cover 4.31 | 14 ratings
Bye Bye Blackbird
Hard Bop 1993
KEITH JARRETT Mozart: Piano Concertos K. 467, 488 & 595; Masonic Funeral Music; Symphony in G minor K album cover 3.40 | 5 ratings
Mozart: Piano Concertos K. 467, 488 & 595; Masonic Funeral Music; Symphony in G minor K
Third Stream 1996
KEITH JARRETT Mozart ‎– Piano Concertos K. 467, 488, 595 / Masonic Funeral Music K. 477 / Symphony In G Minor K. 550 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Mozart ‎– Piano Concertos K. 467, 488, 595 / Masonic Funeral Music K. 477 / Symphony In G Minor K. 550
Third Stream 1996
KEITH JARRETT Mozart ‎– Piano Concertos K. 271, 453, 466 / Adagio And Fugue K. 546 album cover 5.00 | 1 ratings
Mozart ‎– Piano Concertos K. 271, 453, 466 / Adagio And Fugue K. 546
Third Stream 1999
KEITH JARRETT The Melody at Night, With You album cover 3.60 | 11 ratings
The Melody at Night, With You
Post-Fusion Contemporary 1999
KEITH JARRETT Keith Jarrett / Charlie Haden : Jasmine album cover 4.18 | 11 ratings
Keith Jarrett / Charlie Haden : Jasmine
Post Bop 2010
KEITH JARRETT No End album cover 3.50 | 4 ratings
No End
Fusion 2013
KEITH JARRETT Keith Jarrett , Charlie Haden : Last Dance album cover 4.58 | 6 ratings
Keith Jarrett , Charlie Haden : Last Dance
Post Bop 2014
KEITH JARRETT Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach album cover 4.50 | 1 ratings
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Third Stream 2023

KEITH JARRETT EPs & splits

KEITH JARRETT live albums

KEITH JARRETT Somewhere Before album cover 4.06 | 9 ratings
Somewhere Before
Post Bop 1969
KEITH JARRETT Fort Yawuh album cover 4.02 | 12 ratings
Fort Yawuh
Avant-Garde Jazz 1973
KEITH JARRETT Solo Concerts: Bremen/Lausanne album cover 4.32 | 14 ratings
Solo Concerts: Bremen/Lausanne
Post-Fusion Contemporary 1973
KEITH JARRETT The Köln Concert album cover 4.70 | 38 ratings
The Köln Concert
Post-Fusion Contemporary 1975
KEITH JARRETT Sun Bear Concerts album cover 4.55 | 11 ratings
Sun Bear Concerts
Avant-Garde Jazz 1978
KEITH JARRETT Eyes of the Heart album cover 4.35 | 10 ratings
Eyes of the Heart
Post Bop 1979
KEITH JARRETT Nude Ants (Live At The Village Vanguard) album cover 4.30 | 10 ratings
Nude Ants (Live At The Village Vanguard)
Post-Fusion Contemporary 1980
KEITH JARRETT The Celestial Hawk album cover 3.67 | 6 ratings
The Celestial Hawk
Third Stream 1980
KEITH JARRETT Concerts album cover 4.00 | 9 ratings
Concerts
Post-Fusion Contemporary 1982
KEITH JARRETT Standarts Live album cover 4.08 | 12 ratings
Standarts Live
Post Bop 1986
KEITH JARRETT Dark Intervals album cover 3.91 | 11 ratings
Dark Intervals
Post-Fusion Contemporary 1988
KEITH JARRETT Still Live album cover 4.00 | 6 ratings
Still Live
Hard Bop 1988
KEITH JARRETT Lou Harrison: Piano Concerto / Suite for Violin, Piano and Small Orchestra album cover 3.50 | 3 ratings
Lou Harrison: Piano Concerto / Suite for Violin, Piano and Small Orchestra
Third Stream 1988
KEITH JARRETT J. S. Bach – Goldberg Variations album cover 3.67 | 6 ratings
J. S. Bach – Goldberg Variations
Third Stream 1989
KEITH JARRETT Personal Mountains album cover 3.82 | 11 ratings
Personal Mountains
Post-Fusion Contemporary 1989
KEITH JARRETT Changeless (with Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette) album cover 4.07 | 14 ratings
Changeless (with Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette)
Post-Fusion Contemporary 1989
KEITH JARRETT Tribute album cover 4.17 | 6 ratings
Tribute
Post Bop 1990
KEITH JARRETT Paris Concert album cover 4.56 | 17 ratings
Paris Concert
Post-Fusion Contemporary 1990
KEITH JARRETT The Cure album cover 4.50 | 7 ratings
The Cure
Post Bop 1991
KEITH JARRETT Vienna Concert album cover 4.30 | 10 ratings
Vienna Concert
Post-Fusion Contemporary 1992
KEITH JARRETT Dmitri Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op. 87 album cover 3.83 | 6 ratings
Dmitri Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op. 87
Third Stream 1992
KEITH JARRETT Bridge of Light album cover 3.42 | 6 ratings
Bridge of Light
Third Stream 1994
KEITH JARRETT At the Deer Head Inn album cover 4.00 | 8 ratings
At the Deer Head Inn
Post Bop 1994
KEITH JARRETT At The Blue Note, Saturday, June 4th 1994, 1st Set album cover 4.67 | 9 ratings
At The Blue Note, Saturday, June 4th 1994, 1st Set
Post Bop 1995
KEITH JARRETT Standards in Norway (with Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette) album cover 4.38 | 8 ratings
Standards in Norway (with Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette)
Post-Fusion Contemporary 1995
KEITH JARRETT At the Blue Note: The Complete Recordings album cover 4.85 | 10 ratings
At the Blue Note: The Complete Recordings
Post Bop 1995
KEITH JARRETT Händel  ‎– Suites For Keyboard album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Händel ‎– Suites For Keyboard
Third Stream 1995
KEITH JARRETT Handel Suites for Keyboard album cover 3.75 | 6 ratings
Handel Suites for Keyboard
Third Stream 1995
KEITH JARRETT La Scala album cover 4.11 | 14 ratings
La Scala
Post-Fusion Contemporary 1997
KEITH JARRETT Tokyo '96 (with Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette) album cover 4.40 | 10 ratings
Tokyo '96 (with Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette)
Post-Fusion Contemporary 1998
KEITH JARRETT Whisper Not (Live in Paris 1999) (with Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette) album cover 4.60 | 10 ratings
Whisper Not (Live in Paris 1999) (with Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette)
Post Bop 2000
KEITH JARRETT Inside Out (with Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette) album cover 4.21 | 12 ratings
Inside Out (with Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette)
Post Bop 2001
KEITH JARRETT Always Let Me Go : Live In Tokyo  (with Gary Peacock, Jack DeJohnette) album cover 4.00 | 7 ratings
Always Let Me Go : Live In Tokyo (with Gary Peacock, Jack DeJohnette)
Avant-Garde Jazz 2002
KEITH JARRETT Up For It (with Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette) album cover 4.50 | 7 ratings
Up For It (with Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette)
Post Bop 2003
KEITH JARRETT The Out-of-Towners (with Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette) album cover 4.56 | 8 ratings
The Out-of-Towners (with Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette)
Post Bop 2004
KEITH JARRETT Radiance album cover 4.10 | 5 ratings
Radiance
Post Bop 2005
KEITH JARRETT The Carnegie Hall Concert album cover 3.79 | 7 ratings
The Carnegie Hall Concert
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2006
KEITH JARRETT My Foolish Heart (with Gary Peacock / Jack DeJohnette) album cover 3.90 | 10 ratings
My Foolish Heart (with Gary Peacock / Jack DeJohnette)
Post Bop 2007
KEITH JARRETT Paris / London: Testament album cover 4.12 | 8 ratings
Paris / London: Testament
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2009
KEITH JARRETT Yesterdays album cover 4.30 | 5 ratings
Yesterdays
Post Bop 2009
KEITH JARRETT Rio album cover 4.53 | 7 ratings
Rio
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2011
KEITH JARRETT Sleeper album cover 4.61 | 9 ratings
Sleeper
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2012
KEITH JARRETT Somewhere album cover 4.38 | 8 ratings
Somewhere
Post Bop 2013
KEITH JARRETT Hamburg '72 album cover 3.92 | 6 ratings
Hamburg '72
Post Bop 2014
KEITH JARRETT Creation album cover 3.70 | 5 ratings
Creation
Third Stream 2015
KEITH JARRETT Samuel Barber / Bela Bartok album cover 3.33 | 3 ratings
Samuel Barber / Bela Bartok
Third Stream 2015
KEITH JARRETT A Multitude Of Angels album cover 4.62 | 4 ratings
A Multitude Of Angels
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2016
KEITH JARRETT Keith Jarrett / Gary Peacock / Jack DeJohnette : After The Fall album cover 4.75 | 4 ratings
Keith Jarrett / Gary Peacock / Jack DeJohnette : After The Fall
Post Bop 2018
KEITH JARRETT La Fenice album cover 4.33 | 3 ratings
La Fenice
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2018
KEITH JARRETT J.S. Bach : The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I (Concert Recording) album cover 4.75 | 2 ratings
J.S. Bach : The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I (Concert Recording)
Third Stream 2019
KEITH JARRETT Munich 2016 album cover 4.12 | 4 ratings
Munich 2016
21st Century Modern 2019
KEITH JARRETT Budapest Concert album cover 4.50 | 4 ratings
Budapest Concert
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2020
KEITH JARRETT Bordeaux Concert album cover 4.50 | 2 ratings
Bordeaux Concert
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2022
KEITH JARRETT Keith Jarrett / Gary Peacock / Paul Motian : The Old Country(More from the Deer Head Inn) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Keith Jarrett / Gary Peacock / Paul Motian : The Old Country(More from the Deer Head Inn)
Post Bop 2024

KEITH JARRETT demos, promos, fans club and other releases (no bootlegs)

KEITH JARRETT Solo Improvisations album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Solo Improvisations
Post-Fusion Contemporary 1976
KEITH JARRETT Sun Bear Concerts (Excerpts) album cover 4.83 | 3 ratings
Sun Bear Concerts (Excerpts)
Avant-Garde Jazz 1978

KEITH JARRETT re-issues & compilations

KEITH JARRETT Best of Keith Jarrett album cover 3.00 | 1 ratings
Best of Keith Jarrett
Post Bop 1978
KEITH JARRETT Works album cover 4.50 | 3 ratings
Works
Post Bop 1985
KEITH JARRETT Silence album cover 2.83 | 3 ratings
Silence
Post Bop 1992
KEITH JARRETT Foundations: The Keith Jarrett Anthology (1966-1971) album cover 4.00 | 2 ratings
Foundations: The Keith Jarrett Anthology (1966-1971)
Post Bop 1994
KEITH JARRETT Mysteries: The Impulse Years, 1975-1976 album cover 4.62 | 4 ratings
Mysteries: The Impulse Years, 1975-1976
Post Bop 1996
KEITH JARRETT The Impulse Years, 1973-1974 album cover 4.50 | 3 ratings
The Impulse Years, 1973-1974
Avant-Garde Jazz 1997
KEITH JARRETT Priceless Jazz Collection (aka The Seventies) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Priceless Jazz Collection (aka The Seventies)
Post Bop 1998
KEITH JARRETT Les incontournables: Le virtuose du piano album cover 5.00 | 2 ratings
Les incontournables: Le virtuose du piano
Post Bop 2000
KEITH JARRETT Rarum I: Selected Recordings album cover 3.90 | 5 ratings
Rarum I: Selected Recordings
Post Bop 2002
KEITH JARRETT The Seventies album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Seventies
Post Bop 2003
KEITH JARRETT Fort Yawuh / Death And The Flower album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Fort Yawuh / Death And The Flower
Avant-Garde Jazz 2006
KEITH JARRETT The Impulse Story album cover 4.00 | 2 ratings
The Impulse Story
Post Bop 2006
KEITH JARRETT Somewhere Before: The Keith Jarrett Anthology - The Atlantic Years 1968-1975 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Somewhere Before: The Keith Jarrett Anthology - The Atlantic Years 1968-1975
Post Bop 2008
KEITH JARRETT Setting Standards: New York Sessions album cover 4.60 | 5 ratings
Setting Standards: New York Sessions
Post Bop 2008
KEITH JARRETT Mysteries / Shades album cover 4.50 | 3 ratings
Mysteries / Shades
Avant-Garde Jazz 2011
KEITH JARRETT Concerts - Bregenz / München album cover 4.75 | 4 ratings
Concerts - Bregenz / München
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2013
KEITH JARRETT The Impulse Years album cover 4.50 | 2 ratings
The Impulse Years
Post Bop 2013

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KEITH JARRETT movies (DVD, Blu-Ray or VHS)

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Standards II
Post Bop 1986
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Solo Tribute
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2005
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Tokyo Solo
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2006

KEITH JARRETT Reviews

KEITH JARRETT Jan Garbarek, Keith Jarrett, Palle Danielsson, Jon Christensen : Belonging

Album · 1974 · Post Bop
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snobb
"Belonging" is the first Keith Jarrett recording on ECM with Jan Garbarek and his rhythm section (often known as Jarrett's European quartet). Compared to Jarrett's American quartet, the music here is less experimental and adventurous and the whole sound is influenced by Garbarek's Nordic folk.

The obvious project leader is Jarrett for sure. His playful piano improvs are the central sound of the album's music and the most attractive element. Garbarek's sax sounds far from his experimental works of the early 70s and shows his growing trend to melodic simplified tunes influenced by folklore and with only occasional interesting improvs. He has enough space on this album, but compared to Jarrett's piano, which is very jazzy in an American manner, Garbarek's musicianship adds more simplified feeling to the sound.

The rhythm section is competent, but as in cases with previous Garbarek releases, they are a great supporting team and hardly more. Musically the album varies from post-bop with serious Jarrett classical influences to a more polished mix of third stream and Nordic folk, but in all cases, the sound is well rounded, emotionally cool and only Jarrett's great piano playing makes it alive.

A borderline album in many senses: after its release Jarrett will continue working for ECM recording a few more albums with the European quartet. Garbarek will develop similar musical direction on his later albums, but without Jarrett's jazz roots, Garbarek's music very soon will be transformed into cold background contemporary jazz/world fusion close to new age. The sound presented on this album (as well as many similar releases of the mid to late 70s) will evolve to post-bop rooted, but comfortably-polished melodic contemporary jazz of the 90s.

KEITH JARRETT Fort Yawuh

Live album · 1973 · Avant-Garde Jazz
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Throughout his lengthy career, Keith Jarrett has been one of the most important pianists of our time, but there was something different about his youthful playing that you don’t hear as much over the years. Before the Koln concert, the classical performances and the association with the somber 80s ECM sound, Jarrett’s playing was a lot funkier and bluesy soulful with plenty of gospel and roots country riffs to go around for everyone. Its from this earlier phase of his career that we get the loose, experimental and mostly high energy live concert known as “Fort Yawuh”. Joining Keith on this concert is his very talented, ‘American Quartet”, with Dewey Redman on tenor, Charlie Haden on bass and Paul Motian on drums. Part-time member, Danny Johnson, joins on percussion.

The album starts with the free post bop of “If the Misfits (Wear It)”, which opens with what sounds like the musicians imitating a North African field recording before going into high speed free-bop mode. Keith’s piano runs are both lightning fast and harmonically interesting at the same time. Dewey follows him with a strong tenor solo that shows the Coltrane and John Gilmore influences of the time. The album title track follows, and features the piano trio in free mode, but when they kick into an African rock groove, Redman joins with a Chinese musette solo that works really well with this sort of non-western rhythm. Side two kicks off with the gospel groove of “De Drums”, halfway through the track the rhythm picks up the tempo as Redman leads the band in a high energy soul jazz romp. Album closer “Still Life, Still Life”, is a ballad, but during Jarrett’s opening solo improv, he takes the tune into some very complex twisting turning twelve tone treatments.

The salient features on this album are enthusiastic energy and an open mind towards any possible musical influence. This group pulls from all the various musical influences described above, yet all those influences come together to make one sound and nothing sounds contrived or unnatural. There is a real joy at work in this album that is rare to come by.

KEITH JARRETT Bye Bye Blackbird

Album · 1993 · Hard Bop
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Steve Wyzard
"We will never forget Miles."

Miles Davis died on September 28, 1991. The Keith Jarrett Trio rushed into the studio on October 12, 1991 and recorded this tribute album. As Miles Davis tribute albums go, it's really very good. The potential purchaser is advised that this album ranks rather high on the infamous Keith Jarrett vocalization spectrum. If you're a long time Jarrett listener and familiar with his singing, you should have no problem enjoying the album.

Among the highlights are "For Miles", an 18:39 improvisation with an utterly amazing Jack DeJohnette percussion performance, and one of the best ballads this group has ever done, "You Won't Forget Me". After 10:42 of awe-inspiring poignancy, however, a major sequencing mistake is made by following this up with the hard-driving "Butch and Butch": the juxtaposition of the two is simply too harsh. Other than this, I have no further complaints and can highly recommend this album to fans of the performers. Special accolades must go to the aforementioned DeJohnette, as this is one of his best as part of this trio.

KEITH JARRETT Arbour Zena

Album · 1976 · Third Stream
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Amilisom
I came to listen to this album as a result of many sources regarding it as being Keith Jarrett's best. What I expected to hear at the time was Keith Jarrett playing a form of bop with a trio or quartet of some kind, which is generally what you find if you search for Keith Jarrett on Youtube.

Instead, as I began the 15-min first track "Runes" I discovered that this entirely wasn't the case at all. This album doesn't even have a drummer, but instead has a string orchestra accompanying Jarrett on piano, Haden on bass, and Jan Garbarek on saxophone. The three rarely ever play at the same time. Instead, there will be stretches of time where Charlie Haden will begin soloing with the string orchestra with Jarrett either playing very sparse or not at all. This changes with the second half of "Solara March", when the three members start a groove and improvise over it with the string orchestra still giving backgrounds. "Mirrors" is similar to "Runes" but with a more complex string arrangement at times.

As a result, most of the music in this album is very free, spacious, and beautiful. Although it may draw influences from pop piano music, the spirit of improvisation is still very much existent here.

KEITH JARRETT Rio

Live album · 2011 · Post-Fusion Contemporary
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idlero
Well, it's a fact that not everyone loves Keith Jarrett's solo albums( Koln, Scala..., ), it's also a fact ( even if not widely known ) that I am a big fan of Keith Jarrett's solo albums( The Koln concert is on my list of desert island albums) but not an automatic fan of KJ releases ( for example I didn't like the highly acclaimed Jasmine ). Anyway, like 'Koln', with 'Rio' it was love at 1'st audition.I don't know and I don't care if KJ isn't bringing anything new in his music here, I just love this music. A double CD set recorded on April 9, 2011, in front of an enthusiastic audience, a collection of 15 relatively short tracks(at least shorter than in 'Koln') -KJ at his best, sweeping through energetic, slow, melancholic , abstract , jazzy , romantic compositions, creates a beautiful, colourful soundscape. A must for fans of Keith Jarrett solo works, definetely one of his best albums in recent years.And a very unusual ECM cover...And no reference to brasilian music...(somehow in a double CD I would have expected some locally inspired improvisation...)

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snobb wrote:
more than 2 years ago
Not very usual genre tag for Jarrett and for this time period, but Cool jazz is possibly the best tag for that album
idlero wrote:
more than 2 years ago
just wanting to make sure -Jasmine is cool jazz?

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