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The Köln Concert

by: Keith Jarrett

Release Date November 16, 1999
The Köln concert is an overwhelming experience to listen to; every time again. With only the piano Keith Jarret touches your heart with the enourmous feeling he puts into every single sound. Don't play it as background music; is is too good for that!

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My Foolish Heart

by: Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, Jack DeJohnette

Release Date October 16, 2007
Every live recording from this trio is a celebration and a must have .Not so strong like STILL LIVE but also an excellent and skillful live performance which deserves respect and serious listening attention .FIVE STARS FOR SURE .

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Tabula Rasa

by: Dennis Russell Davies, Keith Jarrett, Gidon Kremer, Stuttgart State Orchestra, Tatiana Grindenko, Alfred Schnittke, Twelve Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic

Release Date November 16, 1999
I found it impossible not to react on a variety of emotional levels to Part's music, especially Tabula Rasa. It almost demands feeling. It is also music whose complexities draw one continually to explore it. The more you listen, the more there is to find.

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The Melody at Night, With You

by: Keith Jarrett

Release Date October 19, 1999
Keith Jarrett is surely one of the more interesting jazz pianists around. I have his recording of the Shostakovitch 24 Prelude and Fugues and am full of admiration of his courage in straddling the divide between classical music and jazz. That recording is a superb account of one of the great classical piano compositions of the 20th century.
In this CD, we find Jarrett, recovering from a serious illness, in quiet, contemplative mood. This account of standards is almost minimalist. Jarrett presents the themes with little ornamentation and hardly adds much in the way of improvisation. Instead, he lets the tunes breath, enveloping them in quietness. The left hand adds few harmonies -- the mood is almost religious.
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My Song

by: Keith Jarrett Quartet

Release Date November 16, 1999
I grew up listening to jazz as a child - my father had been a jazz musician. And I have been a Keith Jarrett fan for decades. With a musical genius the likes of Keith Jarrett it's painfully difficult to call any one album a definitive "favorite." However, this one certainly comes close.

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Setting Standards

by: Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, Jack DeJohnette

Release Date January 22, 2008
This is an excellent recording of a great classic jazz trio. However the engineer could have mastered to make Jarrett's "singing" a bit less prominent. Check out good recordings of Erroll Garner or Glenn Gould. I rest my case.....

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The Carnegie Hall Concert

by: Keith Jarrett

Release Date September 26, 2006
For me, Keith Jarrett music evokes a very strong feeling...eternal longing, hope, discovery, sadness and regret.

When I drove those 10 hours with my friends to see Keith play at Carnegie Hall, I longed to hear his music and experience those emotions, to be sure, but I also wanted to be there in the same room with him--to tell him what his music means to me. When I got there, it seemed to me that everyone who was there had that same desire.

We all know Keith's story, we have been moved by his many recordings--the man has nothing to prove anymore. And we have also seen his physical vulnerablilty these past 12 years, and it's frightening to think that his hands may cease to play one day.

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Solo Concerts: Bremen & Lausanne

by: Keith Jarrett

Release Date July 15, 1999
I have almost ALL Keith Jarret solo CDs, and this is my favorite.
Maybe I am biased since it was my first Keith Jarret CD back in high school (wow that was LONG ago), but still it is beautiful.

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Paris Concert

by: Keith Jarrett

Release Date February 29, 2000
there are few people on earth who can do something like this and keith is one of them . what a brilliant monster . i won't even grope for the adjectives to describe how magnificent this is (those around me already have) . their right . BUY THIS CONCERT and leave the chrysalis behind .

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ECM Touchstones: Standards Live

by: Keith Jarrett Trio

Release Date August 26, 2008
I cannot write a review of this album. My aim in writing this is simply to persuade you to listen to it.

I bought this vinyl in 1986 with two Bill Evans albums ('The Tony Bennett and Bill Evans Album' and 'Paris Concert Vol 1' - both recommended) from HMV on Oxford Street in London. I was a big Oscar Peterson fan at the time, and I wasn't impressed initially by this first introduction to Mr. Jarrett. Grunting I was used to - whining though? You must be kidding!

Still I had enough of an ear to hear something interesting in his rhapsodic solo introduction to Stella By Starlight. I'd never heard anyone make a piano sing like that. I just played that passage over and over - not really interested in the rest of the album.

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