Entertainment For Lively Minds
Keith Jarrett - Koln Concert
Posted by Uncle Wheaty on 22 October 2011 - 6:02pm.
Based on the earlier Jo Whiley thread I have spent the last 40 minutes listening to this via YouTube whilst the kids were asleep.
It is lovely and I am converted!
I already liked a lot of Miles Davis and some other jazz but had genuinely never heard of Keith Jarrett before yesterday.
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Thus proving that
Jo Whiley is ultimately a force for good after all. Yay!
the only thing I don't like
about it is the way KJ hums along with what he's playing
yes that's a
good point [gives up and logs off]
LOLZ!
well nang innit? Peace out blud
I also heard Keith Jarrett for the first time recently...
when I was round at the flat of an Italian friend of mine. Her boyfriend played me some of his music on the most expensive stereo equipment I have ever seen in my life. I can't tell you what make all the bits were, but I know he said that the stylus alone cost £4000 new, the arm £10,000 and so on (he bought everything secondhand for much less than that). His speakers (six feet tall, flat sceens) were simply unbelievable.
So Keith Jarrett sounded pretty damn good. But having said that I'd have enjoyed The Fall on that music system...
6 feet tall, flat screens?
Double Quad electrostatics!
*dribbles*
Raises eyebrow...
The ones I saw weren't like that...
They were quite "slim", tall and black. Almost completely flat with no "fancy bits", just a black screen.
I shall expect my call up for the What Hi-Fi job interview forthwith...
That's
how I like my women.
Er, no. Hang on..
I like my women
with fancy bits.
The ESLs have a metal cover which fits over them
which originally came in bronze but is often repainted.
Definitely sounds like some sort of electrostatic speaker though...
Maggies, maybe?
Sound very much like Magneplans to me.
I think that's it!
I had a look at some pictures of them and they look like the ones he had.
This is surely
the late Luciano Pavarotti's trouserpress.
My favourite Liam Gallagher story...
involves a trouser press. He had apparently gone for a curry one night and taken a doggy bag back to his hotel room. Feeling a bit peckish in the small hours he called room service and tried to have a microwave oven delivered by the night staff. Much to his chagrin he was told this wasn't possible and so he endeavoured to find an alternative method of reheating his food. Then he spotted the trouser press.
Apparently the end of this tale involved the fire brigade and the evacuation of the hotel.
This keeps popping up
on this 'ere blog so I am downloading it now for a listen later with a glass of something cheeky.
Hope you're all right.
And next
If you like Keith Jarrett's solo work then the Solo Concerts from Bremen and Lausanne ( 1973 ) are well worth hearing. There's another very good orchestral album titled 'Arbour Zena' on ECM. His more recent work with his Standards Trio is also worth hearing but is more conventionally 'jazzy', although brilliantly done.
You'll like Testament
Paris - London, then. Wonderful sleeve notes too. Jarrett describes in fine detail the physical and emotional toll of his improv performances
KJ - a few recommendations
Well if you've dipped your toe into the Köln Concert and fancy branching out into the Jarrett catalogue, these are the albums that I'd recommend, in rough order of preference. The first two are both majestic six-CD live boxed sets, so there's plenty of stuff to get your teeth into.
I once read a piece on the Köln Concert where the writer said that although he'd been listening to the music for 20 years, he was only now starting to HEAR it. As a whole. That could be applied to so much of Jarrett's music, and for me, these are the 22 most compelling pieces of evidence...
Live at the Blue Note Complete
The Sun Bear Concerts
La Scala
The Melody at Night with You
The Survivors' Suite
Changeless
Jasmine
Still Live
Testament (Paris-London)
Up for It
My Foolish Heart
Vienna Concert
Carnegie Hall Concert
Solo Concerts - Bremen/Lausanne
Tokyo '96
Whisper Not
Concerts (i.e. Bregenz)
Yesterdays
The Out-of-Towners
Belonging
Standards vol. 1
Inside Out
Magnificent selection, duco01
And - though I can hardly believe this - some of the advance publicity for the next solo CD, 'Rio', is suggesting that it's one of his best. Same approach as 'Testament' but without the emotional trauma that surrounded that album (for non-Jarrett watchers - his wife had left him shortly before the gigs on that record).
The only thing I'd add to duco01's survey is that anyone who's interested in Jarrett but on a bit of a budget could do worse than listen to the 'Selected Recordings' compilation ECM put out as part of its 'rarum' series. It's a 2CD overview picked by Jarrett himself, and covers a surprising amount of ground.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rarum-Selected-Recordings-Keith-Jarrett/dp/B0000...
the art of improvisation
thanks for posting
.
Wow, thanks
Thanks for making me aware of this, downloaded it yesterday, and, blew me away. Help me out, can anybody suggest where next with Keith Jarrett? I know a lengthy list was posted earlier, but, how about 2-3 must hears from Mr Jarrett's ouevre.
My two
must hears from KJ would be The Survivors' Suite and Arbour Zena. Both very different to each other and to the Koln Concert. Another path in might be something like Nude Ants, a live album with Jan Garbarek and Jon Christenson.