My favorite Keith Jarrett solo recordings and the exact parts I love
1. bregenz - part 1 the whole first part is incredibly beautiful shade of "country keith" (13:47- 14:07 stands out as an incredible passage of jaggedly sweet, shifting harmonies with a warm, clean keith tone to guide the top voice. part 2 from 5:00 to the end is the most hauntingly gorgeous, achingly sweet music you will ever hear
and how can you not love heartland, god that crescendo starting at 2:18, gradually, evenly and organically building up to 2:55 with keith moaning several times in ecstasy. then, at 2:57 he leaves the chord to hang with no sustain pedal and gently carries the listener back down to earth with magnificent restraint and sensitivity.
2. lausanne - from 23:00-29:33 keith displays tremendous rhythmic endurance and compelling laser precision accuracy with an ostinato reminiscent of albeniz' "asturias (leyendas)" the whole beginning up until 10:30 is great neo-romantic keith with his unique gospel interpolation starting around 5:00; i love 9:00-9:40 (especially 9:32-9:36) and building to a rhythmic orgasm at 9:40 lasting to 10:02 when he shifts into a melancholic, deep, and unnerving landscape. the way he shifts from atonal chaos in to buoyant wistful harmonies with a country pulse is fantastic. the most marked transition comes at 42:35 where keith plays a melody so beautiful and with such longing that it literally takes your breath away. the rest of that concert everyone should experience for themselves without me saying anything more. simply sublime.
3. bremen- those sweet sixths (i think) he starts at 3:38. the way he lifts you up in the first 10 seconds, at 0:28- 0:34. i love it. and in part 2 when he goes into the great bouncy rhythmic displacement at 19:18 then explodes into perfectly clear fifths at 19:33-20:19. such awesome control. and who can forget the encore at 39:27 that is just an f maj9 chord to a csus9 in perfect rhythmic sync for minutes that has the most views youtube, a different version of course, but i like this better.
there you go, i've sifted and filtered the keith you don't need to extract just the nectar. kidding! but search these sections out and i guarantee you will become a jarrett fanatic like myself.
peace
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here are my other favorites:
4. vienna
5. kyoto from the sun bear
6. radiance (tokyo)
7. carnegie 2005
8. la scala
9. testament (paris/london)
10. koln :0 still fantastic and addictive today but narrower in scope (he was trying to stick to just the middle register on an inferior piano)
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