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”
Bad behavior and arrogance mar what could have been a sweet return
Of the great piano trios in jazz, only one has stayed together for 30 years (and counting). Most revered trios (Evans/LaFaro/Motian, Peterson/Brown/Ellis) became iconic in … Read More “Keith Jarrett/Gary Peacock/Jack DeJohnette: Somewhere”
Keith Jarrett was only a year removed from The Köln Concert-which became the best-selling album in jazz history to that time-when in 1976 he released … Read More “Keith Jarrett: Hymns/Spheres”
