Any Keith Jarrett fans here?

Post by **Dale** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 2:03 pm

Inquiring minds wanna know already.

Dale

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 2:05 pm

The man can play a bit - no doubt about it.

Slan,
D.

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 2:08 pm

Who he be?

Dale, you almost have twenty hundred posts!

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 2:10 pm

Cranberry wrote:Who he be?

Dale, you almost have twenty hundred posts!

right now he has 1978.....as my dear father would say, "That was a good year".

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 2:11 pm

oh, and I'm wondering who he is too.....sorry, forgot to add that, and I didn't feel like editing

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 2:13 pm

When I was a young kid, and playing the piano 100% of the time, Kieth Jarrett was among the many pianists I'd listen to. Mighty musician.

Jerry Freeman · Post by **Jerry Freeman** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 2:54 pm

He's been through quite a journey.

Worth a listen:
http://freshair.npr.org/day_fa.jhtml?di ... 02/27/2001

Best wishes,
Jerry

glauber · Post by **glauber** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 3:12 pm

rh · Post by rh » Sat Oct 16, 2004 3:23 pm

brilliant musician and a real pioneer... i remember reading an interview with Jarrett in the late lamented Musician Player & Listener magazine (that should date me pretty well)... among other things, he was pretty peeved about George Winston exploiting Jarrett's solo improv format and raking in money off of it. Accompanying the interview was a photo of Jarrett in performance, standing at the piano keyboard, back arched, face contorted with ecstasy... the caption read "hey, can George Winston do THIS???".

(don't ask why i thought of this story, i couldn't tell you....)

chas · Post by **chas** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 8:56 pm

I have to admit, his is the only concert during which I ever fell asleep. I was never crazy about him, but did like some things about his music, so I paid the money and went to see him. It seemed to me that there was very little life in the players. It was around 1978, about 5-8 band members.

I saw McCoy Tyner a year or two earlier. Now, that's a guy who could play a piano. He did a solo set that was WAY better than anything on Jarrett's Solo Concerts records. Plus, he played a dulcimer.

I haven't heard any of the baroque stuff he's recorded. I'd be curious to hear it.

scottielvr · Post by **scottielvr** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 12:31 am

Yes. Particularly liked The Celestial Hawk and Invocations; also his work with Chick Corea and Gary Burton.

amar · Post by **amar** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 4:54 am

an amazing pianist.

bradhurley · Post by **bradhurley** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 7:26 am

I always thought his loud moaning while playing was a bit contrived...on the one hand you could argue that he was so emotionally absorbed in his music that he couldn't help it, but I wonder whether he cultivated it as part of his performance. Other great musicians can get totally lost in their music without doing gymnastics at the keyboard or letting out orgasmic groans.

That said, I've been listening a lot lately to a classic early 1960s recording of Sean Ryan (the fiddler and composer, not the whistle player) and PJ Maloney (flute), and when you listen through headphones you can hear a few soft moans here and there from Ryan as he's playing. But it's clear that those were inadvertent grunts of pleasure; with Jarrett they're practically screams of ecstacy and they just seem a bit too over the top to be entirely genuine, it feels like part of an act, and that spoils the listening experience for me. Not as bad as Tori Amos, mind you, but it still puts me off.

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 7:32 am

bradhurley wrote:Not as bad as Tori Amos, mind you, but it still puts me off.

Why does Tori Amos put you off?

Wombat · Post by **Wombat** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 7:42 am

In his generation, the pianists I really like are Andrew Hill, McCoy Tyner and Herbie Hancock. I've listened to Jarrett and admire his technique but I've never got past first impressions which were pretty negative. I first heard him on the Charles Lloyd album Forest Flower which was something of a hippy favourite in it's day. I thought it was grotesquely self indulgent at the time and I still find it unlistenable. Lloyd played earlier with Gabor Szabo both in the Chico Hamilton group and later in his own band. They made some superb records, especially Passin' Thru', and an earlier shorter version of Forest Flower is very focused and impressive.

I've tried listening to the solo Jarrett but the impression of self indulgence remains.

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