In an ego-driven culture, too much gets taken for granted. Too little is appreciated until it’s sorely missed. Keith Jarrett can relate. Struck down by chronic fatigue syndrome in the fall of 1996 and confined to the sidelines …
Solo Discography
on ECM
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THROUGH THE JARRETT ARCHIVE
Sept
1999
1999
Keith Jarrett Counts His Blessings
by Dan OuelletteFeb
1996
1996
Why Play Standards?
by John EphlandIt boggles the mind. Since 1983, the Standards Trio of pianist Keith Jarrett, bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Jack DeJohnette have thrived not only playing just “standards” but avoiding jazz clubs like they were cesspools. …
May
1992
1992
Maintaining Standards: Keith Jarrett and Dave Grusin
by Becca PulliamWhat could be more intriguing than a conversation between the prickly Keith Jarrett and the smooth Dave Grusin? They both play the piano and compose in and out of jazz, although Grusin’s ventured into the keyboards and computers while Jarrett is a self-described Luddite (with a smile) …
REVIEWS | Solo
February 2012
Rio
★★★★★
ECM 2198/2199
When Keith Jarrett played a solo concert in Rio de Janeiro in April 2011 after an absence from that magical city of more than two decades, he said he had the odd sensation he had left behind some “unfinished business.” …
September 2006
Tokyo Solo
★★★★½
ECM 672309 (DVD)
Tokyo Solo contains some of the provisional answers Jarrett was sorting through in late 2002. It is the same concert ECM cherry-picked to fill out the solo album Radiance; however, when the two 45-minute sets and the three encores …
December 1999
The Melody At Night, With You
★★★★
ECM 547 949
The album’s title must come from pianist Keith Jarrett’s longstanding love affair with standards. How else to explain the nature of this project? …