Joy of Abstraction

Keith Jarrett - La Fenice (2018) {2CD Set ECM 2601~02} (Complete Artwork - Slipcase with 12 pages)
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© 2018 ECM Records | ECM 2601/02 / 676 5853
Jazz / Contemporary Jazz / Improvisation / Solo Piano

ECM continues the series of Keith Jarrett's live archival recordings with La Fenice. The recital occurred in 2006 at the Gran Teatro La Fenice in Venice, some four years after the pianist had resumed performing solo following his recovery from a long illness. Given that these outings are all spontaneously improvised, it stands to reason that no two are alike, from the spacious and lyrical Koln Concert from 1975 through the 1995's transcendent La Scala, through 2017's kaleidoscopic four-disc release of A Multitude of Angels, captured in four cities on a tour of Italy some 20 months after La Scala. Interestingly, the La Fenice show took place some ten months after Jarrett's triumphant July 2005 Carnegie Hall Concert.

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