Keith Jarrett is an American jazz and classical music pianist.
Jan 22, 2017 17:03:33 #
Keith Jarrett (born May 8, 1945) is an American jazz and classical music pianist.
Jarrett started his career with Art Blakey, moving on to play with Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis. Since the early 1970s he has enjoyed a great deal of success as a group leader and a solo performer in jazz, jazz fusion, and classical music. His improvisations draw from the traditions of jazz and other genres, especially Western classical music, gospel, blues, and ethnic folk music.
In 2003, Jarrett received the Polar Music Prize, the first (and to this day only) recipient not to share the prize with a co-recipient,[1] and in 2004 he received the Léonie Sonning Music Prize.
In 2008, he was inducted into the Down Beat Hall of Fame in the magazine's 73rd Annual Readers' Poll.
Keith Jarrett was born on May 8, 1945, in Allentown, Pennsylvania, to a mother of Hungarian descent and a father of either French or Scots-Irish descent.[2] He grew up in suburban Allentown with significant early exposure to music.[3] Jarrett possesses absolute pitch, and he displayed prodigious musical talents as a young child. He began piano lessons just before his third birthday, and at age five he appeared on a TV talent program hosted by the swing bandleader Paul Whiteman.[4] Jarrett gave his first formal piano recital at the age of seven, playing works by composers including Mozart, Bach, Beethoven and Saint-Saëns, and ending with two of his own compositions.[5] Encouraged especially by his mother, Jarrett took intensive classical piano lessons with a series of teachers, including Eleanor Sokoloff of the Curtis Institute.
In his teens, as a student at Emmaus High School in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, Jarrett learned jazz and quickly became proficient in it. In his early teens, he developed a strong interest in the contemporary jazz scene; a Dave Brubeck performance was an early inspiration[citation needed]. At one point, he had an offer to study classical composition in Paris with the famed teacher Nadia Boulanger – an opportunity that pleased Jarrett's mother but that Jarrett, already leaning toward jazz, decided to turn down.[6]
Following his graduation from Emmaus High School in 1963,[7] Jarrett moved from Allentown to Boston where he attended the Berklee College of Music and played cocktail piano in local clubs. After a year he moved to New York City where he played at the Village Vanguard.[8]
In New York, Art Blakey hired Jarrett to play with the Jazz Messengers. During a show with that group he was noticed by Jack DeJohnette who (as he recalled years later) immediately recognized the unknown pianist's talent and unstoppable flow of ideas. DeJohnette talked to Jarrett and soon recommended him to his own band leader, Charles Lloyd. The Charles Lloyd Quartet had formed not long before and were exploring open, improvised forms while building supple grooves, and they were soon moving into terrain that was also being explored, although from another stylistic background, by some of the psychedelic rock bands of the west coast.[9] Their 1966 album Forest Flower was one of the most successful jazz recordings of the mid-1960s and when they were invited to play The Fillmore in San Francisco, they won over the local hippie audience. The Quartet's tours across America and Europe, even to Moscow, made Jarrett a widely noticed musician in rock and jazz underground circles. It also laid the foundations of a lasting musical bond with drummer Jack DeJohnette (who also plays the piano). The two would cooperate in many contexts during their later careers.
In those years, Jarrett also began to record his own tracks as a leader of small informal groups, at first in a trio with Charlie Haden and Paul Motian. Jarrett's first album as a leader, Life Between the Exit Signs (1967), was released on the Vortex label, to be followed by Restoration Ruin (1968), which Thom Jurek of allmusic.com described as being "mainly considered a curiosity in his catalog".[8] Not only does Jarrett barely touch the piano, but he plays all the other instruments on what is essentially a folk-rock album. Unusually, he also sings.[8] Another trio album with Haden and Motian, titled Somewhere Before, followed later in 1968, this one recorded live for Atlantic Records.
Keith Jarrett Trio - I Fall In Love Too Easily
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENrRAIzlL1A
Keith Jarrett Trio - On Green Dolphin Street
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCSQbxzJyoU
Keith Jarrett Trio - I'll Remember April
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Any7ZV-1umA
Keith Jarrett - The Köln Concert [Vinyl]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSP9Na2ozWM
Keith Jarrett - J. S Bach - Goldberg Variations (BWV 998 ) (Full Album )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfe18ToiAog
Keith Jarrett Trio - Standards In Norway
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZusKFcICj04
Keith Jarrett - Paris Concert Live
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ULjwz1xbpE
Keith Jarret Piano Solo MAdrid 24 October 1988
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rdHO1tPFJg
Keith Jarrett Solo tribute | The 100th performance in Japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSd6Gi6--uc
Keith Jarrett - Danny Boy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6tIzxmPCQE
Keith Jarrett - Somewhere Over the Rainbow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq0EWNuR1H8
Keith Jarrett Trio - All of You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G3udxpjoeQ
Keith Jarrett Trio - All The Things You Are
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY9cTgXp74M
Keith Jarrett Trio - Autumn Leaves
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61aoTlpTqpQ
My Funny Valentine Song Keith Jarrett Trio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-phggJG2sM
Keith Jarrett - Summertime
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9CjfpWq3M8
Keith Jarrett & Chick Corea - Play MORZART #12
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S1iHZEQXrE
Keith Jarrett Trio - It Could Happen To You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOAPG-kEcbQ
Keith Jarrett Trio - Oleo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiJD9j255Bw
Keith Jarrett Trio - Billie's Bounce
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXF411atILk
Keith Jarrett Trio - Solar + Extension
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnprjaR6wFc
Keith Jarrett - endless
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m_QSko_ryE
Keith Jarrett - The Wind
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZEBqgeHS8k
It's Easy To Remember - Keith Jarrett
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLPSl_gZHNo
Keith Jarrett - Someone to Watch Over Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxge7Cf-9fs
Meaning of the Blues - Keith Jarrett
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJkuN1-pVTw
Someday My Prince Will Come - Keith Jarrett
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-gKAkp5MSo
Keith Jarrett Trio - When You Wish Upon a Star
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyntl24zkZs
Keith Jarrett - I Loves You Porgy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3D8Ri84hmw
Keith Jarrett Trio - With a Song in My Heart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc6b7O57sgw
Keith Jarrett - Days of Wine and Roses
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xuowwzjmTI
Keith Jarrett Trio - Here's That Rainy Day (Rare)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3vFm-psjZM
Jarrett started his career with Art Blakey, moving on to play with Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis. Since the early 1970s he has enjoyed a great deal of success as a group leader and a solo performer in jazz, jazz fusion, and classical music. His improvisations draw from the traditions of jazz and other genres, especially Western classical music, gospel, blues, and ethnic folk music.
In 2003, Jarrett received the Polar Music Prize, the first (and to this day only) recipient not to share the prize with a co-recipient,[1] and in 2004 he received the Léonie Sonning Music Prize.
In 2008, he was inducted into the Down Beat Hall of Fame in the magazine's 73rd Annual Readers' Poll.
Keith Jarrett was born on May 8, 1945, in Allentown, Pennsylvania, to a mother of Hungarian descent and a father of either French or Scots-Irish descent.[2] He grew up in suburban Allentown with significant early exposure to music.[3] Jarrett possesses absolute pitch, and he displayed prodigious musical talents as a young child. He began piano lessons just before his third birthday, and at age five he appeared on a TV talent program hosted by the swing bandleader Paul Whiteman.[4] Jarrett gave his first formal piano recital at the age of seven, playing works by composers including Mozart, Bach, Beethoven and Saint-Saëns, and ending with two of his own compositions.[5] Encouraged especially by his mother, Jarrett took intensive classical piano lessons with a series of teachers, including Eleanor Sokoloff of the Curtis Institute.
In his teens, as a student at Emmaus High School in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, Jarrett learned jazz and quickly became proficient in it. In his early teens, he developed a strong interest in the contemporary jazz scene; a Dave Brubeck performance was an early inspiration[citation needed]. At one point, he had an offer to study classical composition in Paris with the famed teacher Nadia Boulanger – an opportunity that pleased Jarrett's mother but that Jarrett, already leaning toward jazz, decided to turn down.[6]
Following his graduation from Emmaus High School in 1963,[7] Jarrett moved from Allentown to Boston where he attended the Berklee College of Music and played cocktail piano in local clubs. After a year he moved to New York City where he played at the Village Vanguard.[8]
In New York, Art Blakey hired Jarrett to play with the Jazz Messengers. During a show with that group he was noticed by Jack DeJohnette who (as he recalled years later) immediately recognized the unknown pianist's talent and unstoppable flow of ideas. DeJohnette talked to Jarrett and soon recommended him to his own band leader, Charles Lloyd. The Charles Lloyd Quartet had formed not long before and were exploring open, improvised forms while building supple grooves, and they were soon moving into terrain that was also being explored, although from another stylistic background, by some of the psychedelic rock bands of the west coast.[9] Their 1966 album Forest Flower was one of the most successful jazz recordings of the mid-1960s and when they were invited to play The Fillmore in San Francisco, they won over the local hippie audience. The Quartet's tours across America and Europe, even to Moscow, made Jarrett a widely noticed musician in rock and jazz underground circles. It also laid the foundations of a lasting musical bond with drummer Jack DeJohnette (who also plays the piano). The two would cooperate in many contexts during their later careers.
In those years, Jarrett also began to record his own tracks as a leader of small informal groups, at first in a trio with Charlie Haden and Paul Motian. Jarrett's first album as a leader, Life Between the Exit Signs (1967), was released on the Vortex label, to be followed by Restoration Ruin (1968), which Thom Jurek of allmusic.com described as being "mainly considered a curiosity in his catalog".[8] Not only does Jarrett barely touch the piano, but he plays all the other instruments on what is essentially a folk-rock album. Unusually, he also sings.[8] Another trio album with Haden and Motian, titled Somewhere Before, followed later in 1968, this one recorded live for Atlantic Records.
Keith Jarrett Trio - I Fall In Love Too Easily
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENrRAIzlL1A
Keith Jarrett Trio - On Green Dolphin Street
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCSQbxzJyoU
Keith Jarrett Trio - I'll Remember April
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Any7ZV-1umA
Keith Jarrett - The Köln Concert [Vinyl]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSP9Na2ozWM
Keith Jarrett - J. S Bach - Goldberg Variations (BWV 998 ) (Full Album )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfe18ToiAog
Keith Jarrett Trio - Standards In Norway
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZusKFcICj04
Keith Jarrett - Paris Concert Live
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ULjwz1xbpE
Keith Jarret Piano Solo MAdrid 24 October 1988
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rdHO1tPFJg
Keith Jarrett Solo tribute | The 100th performance in Japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSd6Gi6--uc
Keith Jarrett - Danny Boy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6tIzxmPCQE
Keith Jarrett - Somewhere Over the Rainbow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq0EWNuR1H8
Keith Jarrett Trio - All of You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G3udxpjoeQ
Keith Jarrett Trio - All The Things You Are
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY9cTgXp74M
Keith Jarrett Trio - Autumn Leaves
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61aoTlpTqpQ
My Funny Valentine Song Keith Jarrett Trio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-phggJG2sM
Keith Jarrett - Summertime
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9CjfpWq3M8
Keith Jarrett & Chick Corea - Play MORZART #12
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S1iHZEQXrE
Keith Jarrett Trio - It Could Happen To You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOAPG-kEcbQ
Keith Jarrett Trio - Oleo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiJD9j255Bw
Keith Jarrett Trio - Billie's Bounce
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXF411atILk
Keith Jarrett Trio - Solar + Extension
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnprjaR6wFc
Keith Jarrett - endless
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m_QSko_ryE
Keith Jarrett - The Wind
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZEBqgeHS8k
It's Easy To Remember - Keith Jarrett
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLPSl_gZHNo
Keith Jarrett - Someone to Watch Over Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxge7Cf-9fs
Meaning of the Blues - Keith Jarrett
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJkuN1-pVTw
Someday My Prince Will Come - Keith Jarrett
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-gKAkp5MSo
Keith Jarrett Trio - When You Wish Upon a Star
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyntl24zkZs
Keith Jarrett - I Loves You Porgy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3D8Ri84hmw
Keith Jarrett Trio - With a Song in My Heart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc6b7O57sgw
Keith Jarrett - Days of Wine and Roses
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xuowwzjmTI
Keith Jarrett Trio - Here's That Rainy Day (Rare)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3vFm-psjZM
Jan 22, 2017 17:15:16 #
Jan 22, 2017 17:17:25 #
DOOK wrote:
Good stuff, Brian. 
Thanks Earl he is quite an artist and it was good to hear some of the old standards. It seems every day I am coming across musicians I hadn't heard before!
Jan 23, 2017 08:42:57 #
Jan 23, 2017 14:04:10 #
I was introduced to Keith Jarrett with The Koln Concert in the 70's and I have been mesmerized with his talent ever since then. Thanks for the article.
Jan 23, 2017 14:35:40 #
Jan 23, 2017 14:36:08 #
dfrodin wrote:
I was introduced to Keith Jarrett with The Koln Concert in the 70's and I have been mesmerized with his talent ever since then. Thanks for the article.
My pleasure.
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