Keith Jarrett: Samuel Barber: Piano Conc., Op. 38/Bela Bartok Piano Conc. Op. 3

Description: Keith Jarrett: Keith Jarrett (born May 8, 1945) is an American pianist and composer. Jarrett started his career with Art Blakey and later moved on to play with Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis. Since the early 1970s, he has also been a group leader and solo performer in jazz, jazz fusion, and classical music. His improvisations draw from the traditions of jazz and other genres, including Western classical music, gospel, blues, and ethnic folk music. His album, The Köln Concert, released in 1975, is the best-selling piano recording in history. In 2008, he was inducted into the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame in the magazine's 73rd Annual Readers' Poll. In 2003, Jarrett received the Polar Music Prize and was the first recipient to be recognized with prizes for both contemporary and classical music. In 2004, he received the Léonie Sonning Music Prize. In February 2018, Jarrett suffered a stroke and has been unable to perform since. A second stroke in May 2018 left him partially paralyzed and unable to play with his left hand. In 1964, Jarrett moved to New York City, where he played at the Village Vanguard in Greenwich Village. Art Blakey hired Jarrett to play with The Jazz Messengers. Jarrett's appearance on the Messengers' live album Buttercorn Lady marked his commercial recording debut. However, there was friction between Blakey and Jarrett, and Jarrett left after four months of touring. During a show he was noticed by Jack DeJohnette, who recommended Jarrett to his band leader Charles Lloyd. The Charles Lloyd Quartet had formed not long before and were exploring open, improvised forms while building supple grooves, and they were moving into terrain that was also being explored, although from another stylistic background, by some of the psychedelic rock bands of the West Coast. Their 1966 album Forest Flower was one of the most successful jazz recordings of the mid-1960s. They were invited to play The Fillmore in San Francisco and won over the local hippie audience. The quartet toured across the U.S. and Europe, including appearances in Leningrad and Moscow. Their concert at London's Royal Albert Hall was attended by The Beatles. The band was profiled in Time and Harper's Magazine, which made Jarrett a popular musician in rock and jazz. The tour also laid the foundation for a lasting musical bond with DeJohnette. Jarrett began to record his own tracks as a leader of small groups at first in a trio with Charlie Haden and Paul Motian. Life Between the Exit Signs (1967), his first album as a band leader, was released by Vortex followed by Restoration Ruin (1968), which Thom Jurek of AllMusic wrote was "a curiosity in his catalog". Not only does Jarrett barely touch the piano, but he plays all the other instruments on what a folk-rock album is essentially. Unusually, he also sings. Somewhere Before, another trio album with Haden and Motian, was released in 1968 on Atlantic Records. Jarrett recorded a few solo pieces live under the guidance of Miles Davis at the Cellar Door in Washington, D.C., in December 1970. These were done on electric pianos (Rhodes and Contempo). Most parts of these recorded sets were released in 2007 on The Cellar Door Sessions, featuring four improvisations by Jarrett. Jarrett's first album for ECM, Facing You was released in 1971. He has continued to record solo studio piano albums intermittently throughout his career, including Staircase (1976), Invocations/The Moth and the Flame (1981), and The Melody at Night, with You (1999). Book of Ways (1986) is a studio recording of clavichord solos. In 1973, Jarrett began playing totally improvised solo concerts, and it is the popularity of these concert recordings that made him one of the best-selling jazz artists in history. Albums released from these concerts were Solo Concerts: Bremen/Lausanne (1973), which Time magazine named "Jazz Album of the Year", The Köln Concert (1975), which became the best-selling piano recording in history, All About Jazz, and Sun Bear Concerts (1976), a 10-LP (and later 6-CD) box set. Another of Jarrett's solo concerts, Dark Intervals, was released in 1987. After a hiatus, Jarrett returned to extended solo improvised concert format with Paris Concert (1990), Vienna Concert (1991), Live at the Royal Festival Hall (1991) and La Scala (1995). These later concerts tend to be more influenced by classical music than the earlier ones, reflecting his interest in composers such as Bach and Shostakovich. In the liner notes to Vienna Concert, Jarrett named the performance his greatest achievement and the fulfillment of everything he was aiming to accomplish. "I have courted the fire for a very long time, and many sparks have flown in the past, but the music on this recording speaks, finally, the language of the flame itself", he wrote. Jarrett has commented that his best performances have been when he has had only the slightest notion of what he was going to play at the next moment. He also said that most people don't know "what he does" which relates to what Miles Davis said to him expressing bewilderment as to how Jarrett could "play from nothing". Jarrett's 100th solo performance in Japan was captured on video at Suntory Hall, Tokyo, in April 1987, and released the same year as Solo Tribute. This is a set of almost all standard songs. Another video recording, Last Solo, was released in 1987 from a solo concert at Kan-i Hoken Hall in Tokyo in January 1984. In the late 1990s, Jarrett was diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome and was unable to leave his home for long periods of time. During this period, he recorded The Melody at Night, with You, a solo piano effort consisting of jazz standards. The album had originally been a Christmas gift to his second wife, Rose Anne. By 2000, Jarrett had returned to touring, both solo and with the Standards Trio. Two 2002 solo concerts in Japan, Jarrett's first solo piano concerts following his illness, were released on the 2005 CD Radiance (a complete concert in Osaka and excerpts from one in Tokyo) and the 2006 DVD Tokyo Solo (the entire Tokyo performance). In contrast with previous concerts (which were generally a pair of continuous improvisations 30–40 minutes long), the 2002 concerts consist of a linked series of shorter improvisations (some as short as a minute and a half). In September 2005, at Carnegie Hall, Jarrett performed his first solo concert in North America in more than ten years, released a year later as a double-CD set, The Carnegie Hall Concert. In late 2008, he performed solo in the Salle Pleyel in Paris and at London's Royal Festival Hall, marking the first time Jarrett played solo in London in 17 years. Recordings of these concerts were released in October 2009 on the album Paris / London: Testament. The 2005 documentary The Art of Improvisation, broadcast on BBC Two on November 12, 2021, concluded with his trio performing a recognizable version of "Basin Street Blues". Since the early 1970s, Jarrett's success as a jazz musician has enabled him to maintain a parallel career as a classical composer and pianist, recording almost exclusively for ECM Records. In the Light, an album made in 1973, consists of short pieces for solo piano, strings, and various chamber ensembles, including a string quartet and a brass quintet, and a piece for cellos and trombones. This collection demonstrates a young composer's affinity for a variety of classical styles. Luminescence (1974) and Arbour Zena (1975) both combine composed pieces for strings with improvising jazz musicians, including Jan Garbarek and Charlie Haden. The strings here have a moody, contemplative feel that is characteristic of the "ECM sound" of the 1970s and is also particularly well suited to Garbarek's keening saxophone improvisations. From an academic standpoint, these compositions are dismissed by many classical music aficionados as lightweight, but Jarrett appeared to be working more towards a synthesis between composed and improvised music at this time, rather than the production of formal classical works. From this point on, however, his classical work would adhere to more conventional disciplines. Ritual (1977) is a composed solo piano piece recorded by Dennis Russell Davies that is somewhat reminiscent of Jarrett's own solo piano recordings. The Celestial Hawk (1980) is a piece for orchestra, percussion, and piano that Jarrett performed and recorded with the Syracuse Symphony under Christopher Keene. This piece is the largest and longest of Jarrett's efforts as a classical composer. Bridge of Light (1993) is the last recording of classical compositions to appear under Jarrett's name. The album contains three pieces written for a soloist with orchestra, and one for violin and piano. The pieces date from 1984 and 1990. In 1988, New World Records released the CD Lou Harrison: Piano Concerto and Suite for Violin, Piano and Small Orchestra, featuring Jarrett on piano, with Naoto Otomo conducting the piano concerto with the New Japan Philharmonic. Robert Hughes conducted the Suite for Violin, Piano, and Small Orchestra. In 1992 came the release of Jarrett's performance of Peggy Glanville-Hicks's Etruscan Concerto, with Dennis Russell Davies conducting the Brooklyn Philharmonic. This was released on Music Masters Classics, with pieces by Lou Harrison and Terry Riley. In 1995 Music Masters Jazz released a CD on which one track featured Jarrett performing the solo piano part in Lousadzak, a 17-minute piano concerto by American composer Alan Hovhaness. The conductor again was Davies. Most of Jarrett's classical recordings are of older repertoire, but he may have been introduced to this modern work by his one-time manager George Avakian, who was a friend of the composer. Jarrett has also recorded classical works for ECM by composers such as Bach, Handel, Shostakovich, and Arvo Pärt. In 2004, Jarrett was awarded the Léonie Sonning Music Prize. Usually associated with classical musicians and composers, Miles Davis is the only other jazz performer to have won it. Keith Jarrett – Barber / Bartók / JarrettLabel:ECM Records – ECM 2445, ECM Records – 491 1580, ECM New Series – ECM New Series 2445, ECM New Series – 491 1580Format:CD, AlbumCountry:GermanyReleased:May 8, 2015Genre:Jazz, ClassicalStyle:Contemporary Jazz, ModernTrack list:Piano Concerto Op. 38Composed By – Samuel BarberComposed By – Samuel Barber1I. Allegro Appassionato12:322II. Canzone Moderato6:163III. Allegro Molto7:55Piano Concerto No. 3 Sz. 119Composed By – Béla BartókComposed By – Béla Bartók4I. Allegretto7:425II. Adagio Religioso10:166III. Allegro Vivace9:087Tokyo Encore – Nothing But A DreamComposed By – Keith JarrettComposed By – Keith Jarrett4:52Companies, etc.Phonographic Copyright ℗ – ECM Records GmbHCopyright © – ECM Records GmbHMade By – EDC, GermanyRecorded At – Kongresshalle, SaarbrückenRecorded At – Kan-i Hoken HallRecorded At – Tokyo Music Joy FestivalMastered At – MSM StudiosCreditsConductor – Dennis Russell Davies (tracks: 1 to 3), Kazuyoshi Akiyama (tracks: 4 to 6)Design – Sascha KleisEngineer – Unknown Artist (tracks: 4 to 6)Engineer [Balance Engineer] – Helmut David (tracks: 1 to 3)Engineer [Tonmeister] – Helmut Fackler (tracks: 1 to 3)Executive-Producer – Manfred EicherLiner Notes – Keith Jarrett, Paul Griffiths (4)Management [Concert Promoter] – Toshinari Koinuma (tracks: 4 to 6)Mastered By – Christoph StickelOrchestra – New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra* (tracks: 4 to 6), Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken (tracks: 1 to 3)Painting [Cover Painting] – Mayo BucherPhotography By [Liner Photos (Barber)] – D. Schirmer ArchivesPhotography By [Liner Photos (Bartók)] – akg-imagesPhotography By [Liner Photos (Jarrett)] – Woong Chul AnPiano – Keith JarrettNotesReleased as standard jewel case CD housed into an O-card case. Booklet with printed credits and liner notes. Samuel Barber Concert recording, June 3, 1984 at Congresshalle, Saarbrücken Béla Bartók Concert recording, January 30, 1985 at Kan'i Hoken Hall, Tokyo, as part of Tokyo Music Joy Festival An ECM Production ℗ © 2015 ECM Records GmbH, MünchenBarcode and Other IdentifiersBarcode: 0 28948 11580 8Rights Society: GEMALabel Code: LC 02516SPARS Code: DDD

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