Live Review: 46th Umbria Jazz Festival
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”
Reviews
Keith Jarrett/Gary Peacock/Jack DeJohnette: After the Fall (ECM)
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)”
Letter From Stockholm
Editor Evan Haga on the Swedish capital’s annual jazz festival
Keith Jarrett: Creation
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”
Keith Jarrett/Charlie Haden/Paul Motian: Hamburg ’72
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”
Keith Jarrett/Charlie Haden: Last Dance
[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”
Keith Jarrett: Concerts Bregenz/München
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”
Keith Jarrett: No End
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”
Keith Jarrett’s Dark Night in Perugia
Bad behavior and arrogance mar what could have been a sweet return
Keith Jarrett/Gary Peacock/Jack DeJohnette: Somewhere
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”