Keith Jarrett—whose recent announcement that he suffered two debilitating strokes in 2018 casts severe doubt on the likelihood of his performing again—is already on record … Read More “Keith Jarrett: Budapest Concert (ECM)”
A Keith Jarrett solo recital is its own art form. It is unlike solo performances by other jazz pianists, most of whom improvise off composed … Read More “Keith Jarrett: Munich 2016 (ECM)”
When you have made many trips to Perugia, Italy for the Umbria Jazz Festival, you never get a sense of which years are bigger than … Read More “Live Review: 46th Umbria Jazz Festival”
Keith Jarrett’s output of extraordinary piano music has slowed in recent years, but ECM has kept the Jarrett titles coming by accessing previously unreleased older … Read More “Keith Jarrett/Gary Peacock/Jack DeJohnette: After the Fall (ECM)”
Editor Evan Haga on the Swedish capital’s annual jazz festival
A live Keith Jarrett recording almost assuredly means instant transport to a given evening in a given city, where an orderly but still surprising program … Read More “Keith Jarrett: Creation”
Reissues and previously unreleased “vault” recordings are crucial to the jazz record industry. Since the start of the compact disc era in 1983, both have … Read More “Keith Jarrett/Charlie Haden/Paul Motian: Hamburg ’72”
[Editor’s note: This review was written and published in JazzTimes shortly before Charlie Haden’s death. We’ve left it intact.] So maybe this project should officially … Read More “Keith Jarrett/Charlie Haden: Last Dance”
This three-CD box contains two Keith Jarrett solo concerts from 1981. The performance in Bregenz, Austria, has been previously reissued on CD. The concert in … Read More “Keith Jarrett: Concerts Bregenz/München”
No End was recorded in 1986, but it sounds even older. The project features piano icon Keith Jarrett solo, though not on solo piano. Instead, … Read More “Keith Jarrett: No End”
