TagsTagsOur Sunday evening music is another outstanding track from the Keith Jarrett Trio's 1996 concert at Tokyo's Orchard Hall. It starts out as the jazz standard "Last Night When We Were Young," and mutates into "A Caribbean Sky" in a stunning interplay.
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Here's the Keith Jarrett trio playing live in Tokyo in 1996, at their most telepathic. Starts with a beautifully musical drum solo by Jack DeJohnette.
Music, Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, Jack DeJohnette, Jazz, Tokyo, Standards, Video
Keith Jarrett's encore improvisation from his 1984 solo concert in Tokyo is simply one of the most amazing feats of pianistic technique I've ever seen. This video focuses on his hands much of the time, so any piano players out there may want to have a box of tissues handy; ...
Every few years I rediscover a monumental work of improvisation, one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever recorded: Keith Jarrett's Solo Concerts: Bremen & Lausanne. I first heard this record in a small sushi bar in Tokyo in 1974, and it hasn't aged; if anything, it's more moving ...
This is a 1982 live recording of a Keith Jarrett solo concert in Hamburg, Germany, in which Keith totally reinvents the jazz standard "All The Things You Are," in a mind-blowing improvisation that takes the tune places it's never been. The audio track isn't great, but the performance definitely is. [Video] ...
At Tokyo's Metropolitan Festival Hall in October 2002, here's Keith Jarrett performing the classic tune "Don't Worry 'Bout Me," by Rube Bloom and Ted Koehler. Just gorgeous playing. [Video]
The most telepathic trio in the history of jazz, Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, and Jack DeJohnette, perform the Rodgers and Hart standard "It's Easy to Remember (And So Hard to Forget)" with profound sensitivity and awareness. [Video]
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Our Tuesday afternoon insanity break is a live recording (audio only) of a Keith Jarrett solo piano concert in Berlin, 2009, with a transcendently beautiful version of his classic composition “My Song.” This tune is one of the most gorgeous melodies ever written, in my opinion; it originally appeared on the ...
This is a rare 1976 video of Keith Jarrett’s European quartet, with Jan Garbarek (sax), Palle Danielsson (bass), and Jon Christensen (drums), playing the abstract yet oddly lyrical tune “Mandala,” from the absolutely exquisite album My Song. (iTunes Store.) [Video]
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Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, and Jack DeJohnette making a joyful noise, in a tune called “Prism” from a 1985 concert in Tokyo’s Koseiniki Hall. [Video]
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Here’s a little Christmas Eve virtuosity, as Keith Jarrett redefines the 1936 Isham Jones standard “There Is No Greater Love,” in another amazing track from the sadly out of print DVD Solo Tribute: The 100th Performance in Japan. [Video]
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Keith Jarrett plays the Thelonious Monk classic “‘Round Midnight,” in an inspired solo performance from the DVD Solo Tribute: The 100th Performance in Japan. [Video]
I don’t know about you, but I’m ready for some music after another insanely contentious week. This is part of Keith Jarrett’s sublime Sun Bear Concerts, a flawless recording of Jarrett at the peak of his improvisational genius on a tour of Japan in 1976. [Video]
Here’s a beautiful track from Keith Jarrett’s latest album, Paris / London: Testament, a two-CD set recorded live at the Salle Pleyel in Paris, and the Royal Festival Hall in London. (Here it is at the iTunes Store.) This is Part VII of the Paris set. [Video]
Keith Jarrett almost launches into orbit in this improvisational piece from his classic DVD, Tokyo Solo. [Video]
Three newly released recordings that I highly recommend, in three very different genres. If you like what you hear, click through to Amazon to buy these albums in CD or downloadable MP3 format, and you’ll help support LGF by doing so. [Video]
A masterful performance of “So Tender,” by the most telepathic jazz trio in history, Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, and Jack Dejohnette. Keith’s intro is stunningly beautiful. This tune is on the DVD Standards in Japan. [Video]
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Possibly the finest jazz piano trio ever: Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, and Jack DeJohnette, playing a classic Rodgers and Hart tune, “With a Song in My Heart.” [Video]
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Keith Jarrett has a talent so enormous it’s like a ferocious monkey on his back, and you get a glimpse of the monkey’s wrath in this video clip, as Jarrett introduces a recording of Miles Davis’ appearance at the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival. It’s no exaggeration to say that ...
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Keith Jarrett with Jack DeJohnette and Gary Peacock, telepathic as always, with an interpretation of the jazz classic “Stella by Starlight”. The art of the jazz trio at its most refined. [Video]
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These are some albums I bought recently and recommend, with Amazon’s cool little MP3 widget that lets you listen to clips and click through if you want to buy. The records are: Joe Bonamassa: The Ballad Of John Henry. Robert Plant and Alison Krauss: Raising Sand. Keith Jarrett: Radiance. King’s X: XV. Tommy Emmanuel: The ...
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Some Saturday music: the Keith Jarrett Trio with a stellar version of “All the Things You Are.” [Video]
A rare Saturday Night Live appearance by Keith Jarrett, performing a solo piano version of his beautiful tune My Song. [Video]
A song you’ll recognize, gorgeously played by three of the greatest musicians in jazz. [Video]
Another reworking of a classic Gershwin tune, from Keith Jarrett’s 1987 solo concert in Tokyo. [Video]