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Keith Jarrett
Jeez, it feels gloomy today. And I feel like the bearer of bad tidings. Especially with this news of Keith Jarrett in the Guardian and NYT...
“Keith Jarrett, the jazz and classical musician whose album The Köln Concert is one of the best-selling piano recordings in history, has announced that he is unlikely to perform again after two strokes.
The 75-year-old told the New York Times that he suffered the strokes in February and May of 2018, and was left temporarily paralysed. “My left side is still partially paralysed. I’m able to try to walk with a cane, but it took a long time for that – took a year or more,” he said. He spent nearly two years in a nursing facility.
He added: '“When I hear two-handed piano music, it’s very frustrating, in a physical way. If I even hear Schubert, or something played softly, that’s enough for me. Because I know that I couldn’t do that. And I’m not expected to recover that. The most I’m expected to recover in my left hand is possibly the ability to hold a cup in it.”
His condition is likely to bring an illustrious career to an end. It began in 1964 after he moved to New York as a teenager, playing in jazz groups, first with Art Blakey and then, in the early 1970s, Miles Davis, Jack DeJohnette and others. He also began releasing solo material, with 1975’s double live album The Köln Concert bringing new audiences to jazz with its long-form, beautifully sentimental improvisations. It has sold nearly 4m copies.
Jarrett has faced other health problems during his life. He was wearing a brace for back problems at the time of The Köln Concert, and announced in 1998 that he was suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome.
Despite those ailments he has kept up a regular schedule of album releases throughout his life, often as live recordings and in a long relationship with the label ECM. His most recent release was 2018’s After the Fall, originally recorded in 1998.
“I don’t know what my future is supposed to be,” he told the New York Times. “I don’t feel right now like I’m a pianist. That’s all I can say about that’ “.
We love you, Keith. You have given the world so much.
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I love Keith Jarrett and was sad to read about his strokes. I was fortunate enough to see him once at the Southbank in London.
Jesus. Poor guy.
Damn. That is bleak.
So sad. I think the Koln concert is an unbelievable work of spontaneous composition.
If anyone hasn't seen it, find the documentary "The Art of Improvisation" which is about Keith Jarrett and is largely told through interviews with him and the musicians he was worked with. At some point, it was watchable on YouTube. His commitment to improvisation as an artform is amazing -- as is/was his skill.
Gee. I had no idea.
Interesting take, Cian. I know from reading the NYT story he feels bereft, but would it be better to have been Keith Jarrett and lost it, or not to have been Jarrett at all?
"My Song"... One of the most beautiful compositions ever. Not sure why, but I tear up whenever I hear it. Solo version here...
One of my favourite Jarrett albums.
I like the other song from that album even better:
Yes, the whole album is very special. A lifelong favorite.
If you weren't aware, Becker & Fagen copped the sound of that era of Keith's band, esp. Jan Garbarek's sax part, for the song "Gaucho" and settled with KJ after he took them to court.
Yes, I know that story. Funny thing is that I was listening to Jarrett long before I took any interest in Steely Dan.
Gosh. One of my favourite pianists too. Particularly like his electric playing with Miles Davis (Isle of Wight, Fillmore, Cellar Door), his American quartet with Dewey Redman et al and his Standards trio.
But my favourite album has to be ‘Expectations’, closely followed by ‘The Melody, at night, with you’ (beautiful renditions of ‘My Irish Rose’ and ‘Shenandoah’).
Such an incredible legacy of music.
Very sad for him.
I’m a big fan...I got to see him perform at Carnegie Hall back in the day...
Wow, sad news, truly a unique musician.
He's been described as the greatest living improviser and musician by a few serious critics. I don't usually subscribe to the idea that there's a best of anything... that's a subjective thing. Some of Keith Jarrett's solo piano improvisation is transcendental though; a moving spiritual experience. I love the band stuff too; Belonging and My Song being two all-time favourites. I'd just listened to La Fenice for the first time about a week ago; I hadn't studied the track listings. There is some beautiful improv and a couple of standards, but the real surprise was Arthur Sullivan's The Sun Whose Rays... lovely.
I just mean poor guy to have the thing that gives your life meaning taken away from you. I know a lot of piano players who are not Keith Jarrett for whom this would be devastating. Strokes are awful.
Certainly one of the essential piano players in Jazz. When you're talking about players at that level I lose interest in whose best. Is Herbie Hancock better than McCoy Tyner? I mean how would you even measure that? Abdullah Ibrahim or Cecil Tayor? Oscar Peterson vs Monk.
Arbor Zena. For when you’ve been up all night and got nothing better to do than listen to Keith Jarrett and stare out the big window and watch the sky fade from pitch black to deep purple. And remember it 40 years later.
Gene Harris is the best jazz pianist of all time. I have spoken:
+1
For obscure jazz albums I feel this is one is pretty hard to beat, though honestly I could go on for days: