There's an overwhelming sense of ritual behind any solo piano concert by Keith Jarrett: a set of expectations and behaviors, often unspoken but widely understood. To the extent that it's a code, it involves both the artist and his audience, and especially the transaction between the two. Since the 1970s, when Mr. Jarrett first earned a reputation...
Paul Motian The drummer Paul Motian, who died last month at 80, was revered in jazz circles for the sly, suggestive economy of his playing and the stark, deceptive ease of his compositions. He was a master of terseness, of the unfinished gesture that turns out to be complete in itself, and he had a profound influence on generations of musicians,...
CRAIG TABORN was deep into a solo expedition one recent evening at the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan, seeming for all the world like someone cracking a secret code. Poised for action at a grand piano, he disrupted an expectant stillness with a turbulent digression. With his left hand he formed the lopsided bass-clef vamp of a piece called...
Keith Jarrett (8. maj 1945 i Allentown, Pennsylvania) er en USA-amerikansk jazzpianist.
Jarretts spil kendetegnes særligt af soloimprovisationer som kendetegnes af elementer ikke bare fra jazz men også fra andre musikformer, særligt klassisk musik, gospel, blues og etnisk musik fra mange kilder. Improvisationerne dokumenteres i de usædvanlige omfangsrige liveindspillinger (for eksempel The Köln Concert, Bremen/Lausanne, The Sun Bear Concerts).
Han debuterede i 1965 sammen med Art Blakeys Jazz Messengers. I den følgende tid spillede han i Charles Lloyd quartet hvor han træf Jack DeJohnette som senere blev en fast musikalsk partner. Efter at Charles Lloyd quartet blev opløst spillde han en tid med Miles Davis.
Fra 1971 til 1976 spillede han sammen med Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden og Paul Motian i «The American Quartet», og med Jan Garbarek, Palle Danielsson og Jon Christensen i «The European Quartet». I 1983 dannede han en trio sammen med Gary Peacock og Jack DeJohnett som stadigvæk er aktiv. Fold ud