Keith Jarrett Solo

Keith Jarrett - Spirits (1986) [2CD] {ECM 1333/34}
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© 1986 ECM Records | ECM 1333/34
Jazz / Post Bop / Modern Creative

SPIRITS, VOLUME 1 & 2 is a multi-tracked solo album, with Jarrett playing 18 instruments to create a third world melange of ethnic melodies and rhythms.

Spirits, recorded in the early 1980's consolidates and eliminates the experimental, Coltrane-like strains of Jarrett's music. The music is distilled to its logical essence - primitive instruments, heavy rythyms and a search for meaning through every melodic idea he knew. This is not easy music by any means - the lush glories of his solo work are absent – this is the work of an artist reassessing his direction by stripping away all the layers of beauty he has laquered onto his vision and exposing the core of his meaning. Spirits is the most personal music Jarrett has ever made - the most disturbing too.

Keith Jarrett - Creation (2015) {ECM}
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© 2015 ECM Records | ECM 2450
Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Straight-Ahead Jazz / Solo Piano

ECM celebrates the occasion of pianist Keith Jarrett's 70th birthday with two simultaneous releases. One is a classical date for its New Series on which he performs piano concertos by Béla Bartók and Samuel Barber with two different orchestras. The other is Creation, a solo piano offering. While Jarrett has made dozens of solo records, this is unlike any in his catalog. Rather than document the unfolding of his in-the-moment ideas through a single performance, this set features nine sections compiled from half-a-dozen performances in four cities and five venues (all notated in the sleeve) during 2014.

Keith Jarrett - My Foolish Heart (2007) [2CD] + Paris/London. Testament (2009) [3CD] {ECM}
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© 2007, 2009 ECM Records | ECM 2021~22 / ECM 2130~32
Jazz / Post Bop / Modern Creative / Piano

My Foolish Heart is an anniversary release celebrating 25 years of the Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, and Jack DeJohnette trio's traveling and performing together despite the rich and varied individual careers of its members. Recorded in 2001 at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Jarrett held the tape close to the vest until what he felt was the right time for release – whatever that means. The bottom line is, listeners are very fortunate to have it. The official live offerings by this group have always been crystalline affairs of deep swinging communication, no matter the material. Not only is My Foolish Heart no exception, it is perhaps the standard by which the others should be judged.

The Keith Jarrett American Quartet's last recording session combines most of the contents Byablue and Bop-Be, omitting "Yahllah" and "Konya" from the former and "Pyramids Moving" from the latter. The partial sampling of the sessions indicates that the quartet went out on a high note, still exciting and inventive, the old interplay very much in action, unrepentantly acoustic in an electric era. The quartet was soon to be defunct.

The bulk of the DVD is this Berlin concert of 6 November 1971. This is one of the last recorded concerts with this band, which disbanded totally later that month. It features Miles on electric trumpet, Keith Jarrett on electric piano and electric organ, Michael Henderson on electric bass, Leon Chancler on drums, and Mtume and Don Alias on percussion. This band is the last one that has direct links to the "Bitches Brew" era, with Gary Bartz still in the band and Jarrett having taken over the two keyboards when Chick Corea left the band in 1970.

Keith Jarrett - A Multitude Of Angels (2016) {4CD Set ECM Japan UCCE-1161~64}
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© 1996, 2016 ECM Records / Universal Music Japan | UCCE-1161~64
Jazz / Contemporary Jazz / Improvisation / Modern Creative / Post Bop / Piano Solo

Keith Jarrett's numerous volumes of improvised solo piano recordings are all treasure troves of spontaneous music making. Documented since the 1970s, they reveal the opening of his music as it readily embraces classical and sacred music influences, filters out what is unnecessary in his technique, and encounters the depth and breadth of the jazz tradition and his own unique abilities as a composer. The four discs in A Multitude of Angels were recorded in as many Italian cities during the last week of October 1996 – some 20 months after the concert captured on La Scala.

Pianist, composer, and bandleader Keith Jarrett is one of the most prolific, innovative, and iconoclastic musicians to emerge from the late 20th century. As a pianist (though that is by no means the only instrument he plays) he literally changed the conversation in jazz by introducing an entirely new aesthetic regarding solo improvisation in concert. Though capable of playing in a wide variety of styles, Jarrett is deeply grounded in the jazz tradition.

2008 two CD set that focuses on the Jazz great's years with Atlantic Records (1968-75). One of the most significant pianists in Jazz to emerge since the '60s, Keith Jarrett's musical career spans across four decades, during which he has been continuously growing as a powerful improviser. His solo concerts have earned him international fame, he has led dynamic quartets / quintets, performed classical music, and later played explorative versions of standards with his long-time trio.

It's Keith Jarrett's 60th birthday on May 8, and ECM is marking a landmark in the life of an inspirational, fitfully indulgent, awesomely prolific musical giant with this double-disc recorded at two concerts in Japan in 2002. It's the first album of solo piano improvisations that Jarrett has released since La Scala in 1995, a set that just preceded his long withdrawal from the scene through illness. But for a special date in his life, solo improvisation is maybe the appropriate gesture - it was a solo album, the bestselling Köln Concert of 1974, that first brought Jarrett recognition outside of jazz circles.