QUOTE: 'A young German student and part-time promoter called Vera Brandes – an avid jazz fan who was just 17 at the time – was responsible for organizing the concert and, at Jarrett’s request, had arranged for a Bösendorfer 290 Imperial concert grand piano to be provided for the show. I was in college.Ī while back, I found a backstory to that concert and made me understand what a tour-de-force it was. This concert is a historical milestone, my first exposure to his genius. This excerpt from Sun Bear (10 LPs improvised live in Japan within a 15 days) are also quite amazing:īach, Mozart, Beethoven and Liszt were also said to be great improvisers – but as far as I know, there are no piano players in our generation which comes close to Jarrett. His various versions of Over The Rainbow is definitely worth checking out. The 'My Song' album (1978) with songs like My Song and Country is also a good document of what they were doing in that period. Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock and John McLaughlin) but Jarrett always was the one I was most interested in.įor those who only came across this historical Jarrett interview and don't know much about him, here's the Belonging album (1974) – one of his IMO most interesting albums: There are other musicians from Jarrett's generation that have been or are active at a high age (like eg. Personally I prefer to listen to his Scandinavian quartet over his Standards stuff. I heard him live a few times, but the best I've heard from his hands – and his band – was some Walkman-recording that someone in the audience had been making on one of the US tours with Jan Garbarek, Palle Danielsson and Jon Christensen.

Click to expand.Yes – Jarrett's best concerts really representing something else something which no other piano players have done.

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