I think the hardest part of transcribing this piece was having to pause the video so many times. It feels so wrong to interrupt such an incredible performance! In seriousness, I highly recommend playing through the sheet music, it's not hard to perform but Keith's playing can teach so much about the true meaning and the power of melody and harmony in music. It's like a constant reminder that beautiful music is in all of us, and we can use the simplest of means to create beautiful, touching moments.
@@angrytedtalks Absolutely true! The goal is to give a tool to help understand the musical ideas and concepts Keith Jarrett is using, but no sheet music (or even audio/video recording, for that matter, though that comes much closer) could ever really capture what Keith and the audience shared that day.
if you split the screen vertically right on his hands, the right side is an amazing solo piano performance, the left side is a 5-minute morning yoga/stretching routine for people with bad necks.
I lost my friend years ago. He was the one who always know how to cheer people up, the one who is recognizable, center of the crowd. I had some mental issues at that time, and he helped me to get out of that. Unfortunately, when we were apart because the pandemic, he didnt know how to save himself out of his depression and was committed suicide. I wish i had more time to know him better. This song reminds me we had peaceful time together. Thankyou
May Jesua Christ calm your heart and heal your pain. For He was wounded to death for our transgressions against Gods Law and was bruised for our many iniquities and the chastisement of our peace was upon Him. Bless His name forever amen.
An astounding fact is now that he's had a serious couple of 'strokes' and doesn't stand a chance of playing any more - he took it on board and said "Well I guess I'm not a piano player any more". That took guts. He was a multi instrumentalist and also performed brilliant classical pieces with orchestras too. A pure artist who will be so much missed and it feels odd to say that when it's not an obiituary. His lifetime contribution to art and beauty is immesurable. It's fair to say "he gave his all". Aren't we lucky?
Simple, friendly, no excessive notes, no unnecessary reharmonization, light, heart-warming, peaceful.... that's when you know it's a special performance.
The song is also about the Jews that were burned during the holocaust. That's what the smoke above the chimney tops part means. Sadly, the meaning of the song is why some of the actors and people behind the movie hated that song since there were anti-semites among them.
@@bobloblaw9690 With a username like yours, I imagine one of the first thngs you must be thinking of is Tobias Funke's rendition of this song: *Somewhere... over the rainbow, There's another rainbow*
@@Dirt-McGerk there are certainly the exhausting stereotypical movements that pianists have, and I can assure you that these aren't them. It's more like his body is just an extension of the sonority of that instrument.
Saw him play in concert in Los Angeles in 2012. He improvised one of the most beautiful pieces of music I have ever heard. And only 1000 people heard it, or ever will. He is an amazing musician.
I'm not sure if you even realise how accurate that is b/c idk if you know Jarrett played classical too incl. Bach - and no other pianist I've heard comes from such a similar place as Gould regarding that pure clarity of articulation. Oh acc he made the only piano recordings of Handel's keyboard music that ever made any sense to me - they were on youtube, think they were removed years ago. I remember how he played the gigue from the D-monir suite I think acc makes you want to dance, again similar I would say to how Gould played the anglaise from Bach's french suite in B-minor, somehow made it more abstract and danceable by *omitting* a lot of the typical baroque ornamentation
Funny because Keith Jarrett's rendition of Bach is famously very flat. Since there's no nuance indication he plays all notes the same, something Gould of course never did.
I remember watching this in high-school a few years ago and getting completely distracted by his expressions to even listen to the music. I'm glad you've posted this now, because I can finally appreciate the solo itself 😊
This is one of those performances where the overt body movements are perfectly merited in my opinion. I'd rather see someone who's not afraid to let his body contort through these harmonies and dissonances freely rather than a stiff with perfect posture
As a composer who couldn't write this (yet, hopefully), I do definitely think this kind of thing is the optimal use of a piano's strengths. Huge range, massive capacity for dynamics even between notes, both horizontally and vertically... Incredibly delicate yet so powerful. This is for sure what I aspire to create someday. Thanks for the transcription ❤
Keith Jarrett is an absolute piano monster. I would strongly encourage people to check out his Koln concert. The entire program is all 100% improvised. It will blow your mind.
I second this, it's absolutely incredible, as is the Bremen concert, which I have a vinyl copy of, for literally no reason other than It's so good, I listen to it digitally
I third this! And it will blow your mind further that his Köln Concert had to be performed on a crappy piano after a crappy flight with a bad meal beforehand. They ordered an extended piano to be delivered to the venue, but there was a problem and it didn’t arrive on time; so he had no other choice to make the crappy piano with the broken keys that the venue had, sound good! That’s mind blowing! That’s what it means to be a jazz musician, adaptability! Making lemonade out of lemons!
I fourth this! Gods know how many times I have listen to this very concert. Again and again and again I still find something new every time. Although the first time I had ever heard the Koln Concert, the impression of the kind of sound that Keith Jarrett showed me was this: the sound of TOTAL FREEDOM! I have never been the same since. He changed my life! Eternally recommended, gateway drug into Keith's music!!
He's a total master. The touch, dynamics, and depth of emotion displayed here is as good as it gets in jazz performance as far as I'm concerned. What's also really impressive is the way he's changing the harmonies as he goes along, and adding countermelodies and embellishments to the main line. If you listen to other versions of him doing it, you'll realise that all of that is improvised.
Deep, genuine, full, and pure! Just like life should be! He plays just what’s required from him at that given moment and let his body express it naturally. It’s a life lesson!
It is different from most improvisations, in which players autopilot with their subconsciousness and build up upon it. The amazing thing Keith is doing is like a composition in real-time where the consciousness takes the lead. It is full of tension and strength and it takes the listener to the player's position.
He played some absolutely beautiful and pretty melodies in his improvisation. For example 3:11 and that last F chord and the dynamics are just beautiful
2:35 Damn, I love this part. I'm not sure if this is right, but I'm really anticipating that resolution back to F, and then he hits you with that Bm a tritone away and it feels so good.
That tritone substitution was used first by George Shearing, and has become very common in the playing of this piece by jazz musicians, although I don't think it was used as much back at the time Keith did this version.
It's like every single measure he resolves but simultaneously does the next augmentation, which will be resolved the next bar. My ears have never heard such constant beauty for 5 minutes non-stop. That's also how Biggie set up his rhyme structure, too.
@@andrew-3464 I didn't use the term 100% accurate here, but augmenting/diminishing generally means changing one note of the chord. It gives it an eerie and slightly incorrect sound. Resolving it means using that "wrong" note in the next chord.
I have listened to the version from the Munich 2016 concert many times and it makes me tear up every time I hear it. I feel like Keith's version of "Over The Rainbow" stays more true to the original composition than most that I have heard, thus it makes me feel a deep sense of longing that I have only gotten while listening to the original Judy Garland recording. It is truly my favorite version of such a beautiful piece.
He is not "transcribing" he is improvising....and tho most important...he is listening to himself playing (thats something which is not common especially for jazz players).. True artist.
I never knew a HUMAN could display such heart warming melodic sounds like this. That was the BEST version I have EVER heard. Izzy is now second place. WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I realize it’s a transcription of playing, but the point still remains: Notes on the page are just ink on paper, but when played on a musical instrument by someone who has an emotional connection with every stroke of the pen, we find a magic we never knew existed. “If pretty little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why, oh why can’t I?” The way he bows his head at 5:18 after playing that haunting last line just hits different.
Yes. Yes. Here is why this works ... No matter the flourishes, time stretches, and coloring of chords underneath, he does NOT break the melody. It is perfectly respected. To hold this axiomatically, yet discover exotic and delicious harmonic color, is masterful.
Thankyou so much @tonywilliamspiano for transcribing this. I’ve been playing it through today and another arrangement I found. Just exquisite - we are so blessed to have music and musicians like this. I was deeply saddened to learn of Keith Jarrett’s stroke, but I’ve heard him do amazing stuff still with just one arm (he is not the first to suffer this horrible loss) My choir recently performed this at a concert (a very different perspective) so now that I’ve found this I think I’ll play it at our Christmas party 🎉 Hopefully the audience will break into applause as I begin …
His movements have always been clear. When he is freely improvising, or like here interpreting a known tune, the inspirations come into his head from above. He receives what the spirit of music puts into his mind and converts it straight into his arms and hands.
To state this is the "most beautiful" is daring, but it's sure one of the best solos ever played. I'm lucky to have seen Keith Jarret playing live several times in my life, as well solo as in trio. And he's such a great musician and human being (I refer to his interviews). Thank you for transcribing this!
Keith Jarrett was one of a kind and we, his audience, were lucky to have had his music, and luckier still to have had so much of that music preserved. I give thanks for that.
Yes, people who clap when the performance starts are narcissists who like hearing their own noise over a maestro performance. I would stop and tell them to shut up. It would rather spoil the ambience though. Stick to rustling your toga.
All right man, you got me. Normally I always have something to say about music being ultimately subjective and personal and a matter of taste, but now that I've gotten that out of the way, let me just say wow...I've listened to many Keith Jarrett solos from many records and many configurations and until now I've held in special regard the rubato, solo piano intro to The Keith Jarrett's Standard's Trio version of 'The Days Of Wine And Roses', from this out standing 'The Complete Live At Blue Note'. That intro is nothing short of sonic poetry, but here it seem that KJ was able to channel that same poetry into an all more, full performance -and the fact that you included a transcription w/ both notation and Chord Changes makes it all the most incredible to appreciate. It's amazing that as much chops, dexterity, speed and technique that many great players have (and I surely appreciate all those elements in all kinds of players), it is arguably in the slow numbers that musician can truly show his lyricism and inner musical melodic self. Thanks so much for sharing.
We've all been blessed to have heard this man play. Like Bach they will be talking and learning from him 400 years from now. And hopefully if it all survives till then, they will also get to watch him perform in videos. And come to feel, like some of us do, that we got to see this man bare his very soul. We witnessed a man who dedicated his whole life to the perfection of his craft so that he could do just that: bare his soul to us. Seriously, even with your intimates you've spent a lifetime around, how often can you say you've been privileged to bare witness to that? Tears stream down my face as I write this for this man who may never play another note on the piano again. From the bottom of our hearts may you and your loved ones have the most divine peace and contentment embrace you all the rest of your days. Amen.
Next January marks the first fiftieth anniversary of the Koln Concert. All my admiration to the great magician Keith Jarrett. I love Jarrett's music and spirit with all my being. 
We talk about playing music mostly from the perspective of producing art, but the act of playing music is also a form of consumption in a way that's distinct from listening to it (like playing a video game vs watching a movie). This is of course the primary reason why most musicians choose to play music. The fact that an audience can hear it too is a fortunate consequence. A lot of the comments rightly point out how beautiful his playing is. If it's so beautiful to us as listeners, just imagine what it must be like to have such beauty spontaneously arise and flow through your consciousness.
George, thanks so much for posting this and transcribing as well!! I'm a pianist and this is a favorite of mine, but Keith's version is the most beautiful and moving I've heard. I hope the RUclips issues are all resolved to your benefit soon! Russ
The world will never experience a more gifted pianist like Keith Jarrett, a prodigy from childhood. His music transcends the soul. We are so exceptionally lucky...
Classical piano teachers: Sit up straight, hold your elbows just so, curl your fingers, stop rocking back and forth. Also classical piano teachers: Why can't my students *feel* the music?
4:49 left hand, second measure sounds like a second (c-d) instead of g. Works well with the fingers position for the previous chord and continues with bb in the third measure.
George Gershwin had an amazing ability to write these great melodies that sounded great on their own as written and yet also left plenty of space for an imaginative jazz artist to add their own unique sound to it. This is great playing.
Oh, man. This reminds me of the time I heard the Dave Brubeck Quintet doing this song in concert. The woodwind player was on flute for the melody. Heartbreakingly beautiful.
I consider Keith Jarrett to be the best pianist on the planet who has ever lived. Flawless in jazz, flawless in classic music, remarkable composer and improviser. If I could be granted a wish to play exactly like any piano player out there - I would pick him without a second (or even first) thought. It's really sad that I never saw him live and now it's not a possibility what with the stroke he went through.
touching! the instrument and the musician are one. he is giving everything from his heart up to touch the stars and he truly touches them and takes us there with him. Divine!
That last note... gah. Such a simple thing but executed with such beautiful perfection. Maybe Ill start swinging my neck around and see if helps. Practicing for 20 years doesnt seem to be working quite as good as I had hoped.
My english teacher had a piano in his classroom and I used to play it before class. He showed me this guy, Keith Jarrett and said my improvisations reminded him of this guy. Cool solo.
Thank you, George, for the outstanding transcription of a Keith Jarrett masterpiece. Keith's genius is on full display in this video, and the transcription is very accurate.
Yeah it's funny but just shows you that his mind is thinking way beyond the instrument. To think that he was "limited" in what sounds he hears in his head is just ridiculous when it still sounds this amazing
Keith Jarrett is the "Frederic Chopin" on jazz piano. Like Chopin, he spontaneously invented the most beautiful melodies in his improvisations and will therefore survive for a long time to come.
TENHO 79 ANOS E POSSO DIZER, QUE POUCOS PIANISTAS NESTE MUNDO, CONSEGUIRAM EXPRIMIR TAMANHA TERNURA E POESIA !!! O CORAÇÃO ACELERA, A GENTE CHORA E RESPIRA OFEGANTE... LINDO DEMAIS !!!!
Started seeing tears come out of my eyes upon listening to this tune by Keith. The effect of Keith's playing uplifts my spirit. I felt like reaching out to those I might have wronged and making peace with them once I heard this tune
Watching this raises the classic question re Jarrett for me: how much of this was worked out in advance vs purely spontaneous? Some of those contrapuntal movements are so beautiful and clever it makes me think he had to have prepped this prior or is he that genius?
@@HSetonNotes improvisational musicians often have melodic vocabulary that they tend to use. I don’t think the stuff he was doing here was planned, but it was practiced, if that makes sense. Practicing improvisation is very much a thing, and people who mastered it (like him) can make it sound pre-written. So yes, “ideas” are practiced, but the exact notes are not, and not even necessarily for a specific song
Thank you. Once a tune transcends from listening to the artist, to being engulfed in its melody and pure listening pleasure, then you truly appreciate it's power. Excellent post
I love how he plays the piano, sometimes it’s like he’s riding it, sometimes it’s like making love to it, sometimes it’s just a deep conversation with it…❤️
hey George Collier, I just realized you are very young, I am impressed and astonished by you taste in music and talent. Keep up the great work and thank you for sharing with us on this channel!
This is so beautiful. This is how you truly enjoy music. It’s raw form. Combining all the notes together and adding notes to compliment a already legendary composition. This is passion at its stripped down form. This is so incredible! Words cannot explain the feeling. You just have to close your eyes and go to your wonderland. Bravo! Magnificent!! 🙌🙌🙌
He is a musical gift to the world… I feel blessed to be born a human to know his music… Have you guys listened to his HANDEL sonata album? I recommend it. Thanks for posting this Mr. Collier.
This piece looks easy to play the notes, and that's true. However try to sound like him and then you realise where the true difficulty lies His phrasing and dynamics are so beautiful
Hi, nice work ! I think I hear a B flat instead of an A at 4:22 right hand melody. Also last left handed arpeggio at 5:20 the first 3 notes are F C A and not F C F. Not that it really matters just thought you'd like to see this considering how much time it must have taken you and all the hard to transcribe passages that you did wonderfuly.
I think the hardest part of transcribing this piece was having to pause the video so many times. It feels so wrong to interrupt such an incredible performance!
In seriousness, I highly recommend playing through the sheet music, it's not hard to perform but Keith's playing can teach so much about the true meaning and the power of melody and harmony in music.
It's like a constant reminder that beautiful music is in all of us, and we can use the simplest of means to create beautiful, touching moments.
great job on this!
Keith Jarrett's version of Danny Boy is also incredible and I highly recommend it!
This piece reminds me a lot of Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Surely the harmony improv and rubato are so emotionally human, sheet music can barely represent it.
@@angrytedtalks Absolutely true! The goal is to give a tool to help understand the musical ideas and concepts Keith Jarrett is using, but no sheet music (or even audio/video recording, for that matter, though that comes much closer) could ever really capture what Keith and the audience shared that day.
if you split the screen vertically right on his hands, the right side is an amazing solo piano performance, the left side is a 5-minute morning yoga/stretching routine for people with bad necks.
🤣😂
jazzy people with bad necks
this is funny! Take a bow 🙂
Bro.... XDDDDDD
*died laughing* 🤣🤣🤣
I lost my friend years ago. He was the one who always know how to cheer people up, the one who is recognizable, center of the crowd. I had some mental issues at that time, and he helped me to get out of that. Unfortunately, when we were apart because the pandemic, he didnt know how to save himself out of his depression and was committed suicide. I wish i had more time to know him better.
This song reminds me we had peaceful time together. Thankyou
Very sorry for your loss. Music can bring memories and comfort.
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I'm sorry for the loss of your friend. Enjoy the music and reach out to someone if you need to.
May Jesua Christ calm your heart and heal your pain. For He was wounded to death for our transgressions against Gods Law and was bruised for our many iniquities and the chastisement of our peace was upon Him. Bless His name forever amen.
❤
An astounding fact is now that he's had a serious couple of 'strokes' and doesn't stand a chance of playing any more - he took it on board and said "Well I guess I'm not a piano player any more". That took guts. He was a multi instrumentalist and also performed brilliant classical pieces with orchestras too. A pure artist who will be so much missed and it feels odd to say that when it's not an obiituary. His lifetime contribution to art and beauty is immesurable. It's fair to say "he gave his all". Aren't we lucky?
Simple, friendly, no excessive notes, no unnecessary reharmonization, light, heart-warming, peaceful.... that's when you know it's a special performance.
you mean how jacob collier plays?
@@lildude98nonasa60 well, Jacob Collier has his own character, and another kind of "special".
yeah, who gets to decide the line for the unnecessary reharmonization. hahaha. we'd stay forever with Mozart's harmony in that case.
@@AndreyRubtsovRU Mozart's harmony is simple but incredible btw :P
As an amateur classical musician I find that non-dominant seventh chords are very jazzy 😎😎😎 (except ii56)
people can joke about his movement, but its so genuine, so raw. *very inspiring performance!!*
The song is also about the Jews that were burned during the holocaust. That's what the smoke above the chimney tops part means. Sadly, the meaning of the song is why some of the actors and people behind the movie hated that song since there were anti-semites among them.
@@bobloblaw9690 That isn't true. It's an oft-repeated myth. Snopes has an article on it.
@@bobloblaw9690 With a username like yours, I imagine one of the first thngs you must be thinking of is Tobias Funke's rendition of this song:
*Somewhere... over the rainbow,
There's another rainbow*
@@Dirt-McGerk there are certainly the exhausting stereotypical movements that pianists have, and I can assure you that these aren't them. It's more like his body is just an extension of the sonority of that instrument.
if it is raw, why add birds?
He's giving every note a hug and I love it.
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What a perfect comment..........
That’s a really clever analogy
Saw him play in concert in Los Angeles in 2012. He improvised one of the most beautiful pieces of music I have ever heard. And only 1000 people heard it, or ever will. He is an amazing musician.
He needs to compose a great American symphony. We don't have one.
Keith Jarrett is the Glenn Gould of jazz piano. He is the master of clarity and precision.
100%
I'm not sure if you even realise how accurate that is b/c idk if you know Jarrett played classical too incl. Bach - and no other pianist I've heard comes from such a similar place as Gould regarding that pure clarity of articulation. Oh acc he made the only piano recordings of Handel's keyboard music that ever made any sense to me - they were on youtube, think they were removed years ago. I remember how he played the gigue from the D-monir suite I think acc makes you want to dance, again similar I would say to how Gould played the anglaise from Bach's french suite in B-minor, somehow made it more abstract and danceable by *omitting* a lot of the typical baroque ornamentation
I knew of Keith Garrett as a harpsichord player playing Bach, before learning he's a jazz pianist too
Even without the similar grunting and body language, they are a lot alike
Funny because Keith Jarrett's rendition of Bach is famously very flat. Since there's no nuance indication he plays all notes the same, something Gould of course never did.
I remember watching this in high-school a few years ago and getting completely distracted by his expressions to even listen to the music. I'm glad you've posted this now, because I can finally appreciate the solo itself 😊
You can just close your eyes it works well
Fun seeing you here
This is one of those performances where the overt body movements are perfectly merited in my opinion. I'd rather see someone who's not afraid to let his body contort through these harmonies and dissonances freely rather than a stiff with perfect posture
I’ve occasionally found his noise-making (mercifully absent here) distracting, but I’m fine with his contortions.
Notice that since pianists can't bend notes, they bend their body instead.
I don't know why, but I really appreciate that the video ended before the audience clapped.
As a composer who couldn't write this (yet, hopefully), I do definitely think this kind of thing is the optimal use of a piano's strengths. Huge range, massive capacity for dynamics even between notes, both horizontally and vertically... Incredibly delicate yet so powerful. This is for sure what I aspire to create someday. Thanks for the transcription ❤
Keith Jarrett is an absolute piano monster. I would strongly encourage people to check out his Koln concert. The entire program is all 100% improvised. It will blow your mind.
I second this, it's absolutely incredible, as is the Bremen concert, which I have a vinyl copy of, for literally no reason other than It's so good, I listen to it digitally
I third this! And it will blow your mind further that his Köln Concert had to be performed on a crappy piano after a crappy flight with a bad meal beforehand. They ordered an extended piano to be delivered to the venue, but there was a problem and it didn’t arrive on time; so he had no other choice to make the crappy piano with the broken keys that the venue had, sound good! That’s mind blowing! That’s what it means to be a jazz musician, adaptability! Making lemonade out of lemons!
I fourth this! Gods know how many times I have listen to this very concert. Again and again and again I still find something new every time.
Although the first time I had ever heard the Koln Concert, the impression of the kind of sound that Keith Jarrett showed me was this: the sound of TOTAL FREEDOM!
I have never been the same since. He changed my life! Eternally recommended, gateway drug into Keith's music!!
I fifth it! The Koln concert is one of the most beautiful things I have ever heard.
I regularly come back to the Köln Concert as well! Pure unlimited Genius, like he wasn't bound to a body!
He's a total master. The touch, dynamics, and depth of emotion displayed here is as good as it gets in jazz performance as far as I'm concerned. What's also really impressive is the way he's changing the harmonies as he goes along, and adding countermelodies and embellishments to the main line. If you listen to other versions of him doing it, you'll realise that all of that is improvised.
I love how he crafts the solo around the song; extremely transformative solo, but never goes on some sort of wild tangent.
''Music is not something you can use words to describe'' K.J.
Damn this guy changed my life forever.
The greatest of all : Keith Jarrett guys ! 😍
“Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.” Frank Zappa. Probably badly paraphrased.
Except that quote does exactly that? :D
Mine too.
Hi George Collier, I think what you're doing to the music community (through your transcriptions) is amazing. Thank you!
Oh, Keith Jarrett. Everything you can say about him would be an understatement.
Including that! Hahahaha
He has bad posture.
@@paulchiara3722 lmao that’s quite an understatement too
Including mentioning how rude he is to fans at his shows?
@@jtoddmusic7090 Only to his rude fans. Who would have gone and tried to video Mozart rather than live the glory of being there?
Deep, genuine, full, and pure! Just like life should be! He plays just what’s required from him at that given moment and let his body express it naturally. It’s a life lesson!
It is different from most improvisations, in which players autopilot with their subconsciousness and build up upon it. The amazing thing Keith is doing is like a composition in real-time where the consciousness takes the lead. It is full of tension and strength and it takes the listener to the player's position.
I had one of his albums called “The Vienna Concert” when I was a teenager and it really helped me through a lot of turbulent times.
Same here. Along with other masterpieces like Köln Concert and others, still The Vienna Concert has been the best for me in his works.
The beginning is so touching.
He played some absolutely beautiful and pretty melodies in his improvisation. For example 3:11 and that last F chord and the dynamics are just beautiful
2:35 Damn, I love this part. I'm not sure if this is right, but I'm really anticipating that resolution back to F, and then he hits you with that Bm a tritone away and it feels so good.
I love it too
Yo también amo ese momento, ese Bm7(5b) es tan inesperado como bello.
That tritone substitution was used first by George Shearing, and has become very common in the playing of this piece by jazz musicians, although I don't think it was used as much back at the time Keith did this version.
It's like every single measure he resolves but simultaneously does the next augmentation, which will be resolved the next bar. My ears have never heard such constant beauty for 5 minutes non-stop.
That's also how Biggie set up his rhyme structure, too.
(Can someone pls explain this to me?)
@@andrew-3464 I didn't use the term 100% accurate here, but augmenting/diminishing generally means changing one note of the chord. It gives it an eerie and slightly incorrect sound.
Resolving it means using that "wrong" note in the next chord.
I have listened to the version from the Munich 2016 concert many times and it makes me tear up every time I hear it. I feel like Keith's version of "Over The Rainbow" stays more true to the original composition than most that I have heard, thus it makes me feel a deep sense of longing that I have only gotten while listening to the original Judy Garland recording. It is truly my favorite version of such a beautiful piece.
Thanks for the revelation
And a little bit "A remark you made"
I was in the audience. (I never miss a chance to say this.)
He and Eva Cassidy are the pinnacle, at present for this tune.
The way the second voice at 2:02 morphs into the melody is so creative
the more I study music theory the more I appreciate the beauty of a piece like this. Thank you for the transcription my friend.
He is not "transcribing" he is improvising....and tho most important...he is listening to himself playing (thats something which is not common especially for jazz players).. True artist.
Inner movements within the harmony are killer, fantastic
I never knew a HUMAN could display such heart warming melodic sounds like this. That was the BEST version I have EVER heard. Izzy is now second place. WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Try Eva Cassid's version, too.
That amazing jazz posture
The emotion in his playing is hard to replicate. Watching him play, in this way, is beautiful.
I realize it’s a transcription of playing, but the point still remains: Notes on the page are just ink on paper, but when played on a musical instrument by someone who has an emotional connection with every stroke of the pen, we find a magic we never knew existed.
“If pretty little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why, oh why can’t I?” The way he bows his head at 5:18 after playing that haunting last line just hits different.
Oh yeah... Very touching indeed
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Yes. Yes. Here is why this works ... No matter the flourishes, time stretches, and coloring of chords underneath, he does NOT break the melody. It is perfectly respected. To hold this axiomatically, yet discover exotic and delicious harmonic color, is masterful.
Best comment. Thanks for the melody.
Every time I hear Keith play, brought to tears from the beautiful dedication of his art!
Thankyou so much @tonywilliamspiano for transcribing this. I’ve been playing it through today and another arrangement I found. Just exquisite - we are so blessed to have music and musicians like this. I was deeply saddened to learn of Keith Jarrett’s stroke, but I’ve heard him do amazing stuff still with just one arm (he is not the first to suffer this horrible loss)
My choir recently performed this at a concert (a very different perspective) so now that I’ve found this I think I’ll play it at our Christmas party 🎉
Hopefully the audience will break into applause as I begin …
His movements have always been clear. When he is freely improvising, or like here interpreting a known tune, the inspirations come into his head from above. He receives what the spirit of music puts into his mind and converts it straight into his arms and hands.
To state this is the "most beautiful" is daring, but it's sure one of the best solos ever played. I'm lucky to have seen Keith Jarret playing live several times in my life, as well solo as in trio. And he's such a great musician and human being (I refer to his interviews). Thank you for transcribing this!
Keith Jarrett was one of a kind and we, his audience, were lucky to have had his music, and luckier still to have had so much of that music preserved. I give thanks for that.
He’s not gone you know. Even after strokes paralysed his left side (so cruel) he can still play Rh alone
Man, that was the fastest and shortest clap I ever heard from an audience
@@jameskuo661 that's kinda funny. Thanks for sharing that!
i got pissed myself when they started clapping, haha. it just started, listen to the music!
Yes, people who clap when the performance starts are narcissists who like hearing their own noise over a maestro performance. I would stop and tell them to shut up. It would rather spoil the ambience though.
Stick to rustling your toga.
@@jameskuo661 dude. the fact is they shouldnt applaude.
until the end.
All right man, you got me. Normally I always have something to say about music being ultimately subjective and personal and a matter of taste, but now that I've gotten that out of the way, let me just say wow...I've listened to many Keith Jarrett solos from many records and many configurations and until now I've held in special regard the rubato, solo piano intro to The Keith Jarrett's Standard's Trio version of 'The Days Of Wine And Roses', from this out standing 'The Complete Live At Blue Note'. That intro is nothing short of sonic poetry, but here it seem that KJ was able to channel that same poetry into an all more, full performance -and the fact that you included a transcription w/ both notation and Chord Changes makes it all the most incredible to appreciate. It's amazing that as much chops, dexterity, speed and technique that many great players have (and I surely appreciate all those elements in all kinds of players), it is arguably in the slow numbers that musician can truly show his lyricism and inner musical melodic self. Thanks so much for sharing.
We've all been blessed to have heard this man play. Like Bach they will be talking and learning from him 400 years from now. And hopefully if it all survives till then, they will also get to watch him perform in videos. And come to feel, like some of us do, that we got to see this man bare his very soul. We witnessed a man who dedicated his whole life to the perfection of his craft so that he could do just that: bare his soul to us. Seriously, even with your intimates you've spent a lifetime around, how often can you say you've been privileged to bare witness to that?
Tears stream down my face as I write this for this man who may never play another note on the piano again.
From the bottom of our hearts may you and your loved ones have the most divine peace and contentment embrace you all the rest of your days. Amen.
Simply immortal !
this man doesn't just play music.. he paints it.
I desperately tried to mimick this very performance when I was 16 years old. This now feels like my birthday. Thank you!!!
I did the same, but my neck hurt too much
Thanks!
This is absolutely beautiful! George for the win with more amazing music!
Next January marks the first fiftieth anniversary of the Koln Concert. All my admiration to the great magician Keith Jarrett. I love Jarrett's music and spirit with all my being.

A performance of surpassing beauty.
Thank you Keith Jarrett.
And thank you for sharing the video and transcription with us.
The longing is palpable, beautiful, more fully expressed than in the original lyrics; can't stop rewinding and listening again.
You can really see the clouds in the sky and the light coming through
We talk about playing music mostly from the perspective of producing art, but the act of playing music is also a form of consumption in a way that's distinct from listening to it (like playing a video game vs watching a movie). This is of course the primary reason why most musicians choose to play music. The fact that an audience can hear it too is a fortunate consequence.
A lot of the comments rightly point out how beautiful his playing is. If it's so beautiful to us as listeners, just imagine what it must be like to have such beauty spontaneously arise and flow through your consciousness.
Keith Jarrett has to have been in a flow state most of the time he was playing
Keith Jarrett is in a class of his own. Thank you for sharing this.
George, thanks so much for posting this and transcribing as well!! I'm a pianist and this is a favorite of mine, but Keith's version is the most beautiful and moving I've heard. I hope the RUclips issues are all resolved to your benefit soon! Russ
Anyone else become unhinged upon hearing the applause at the beginning?
yeah it's obnoxious af
100%. The audience is literally applauding themselves for knowing the melody.
Lucky that time Keith didn't and stayed to play.
Na, im happy when people appreciate other's work
The world will never experience a more gifted pianist like Keith Jarrett, a prodigy from childhood. His music transcends the soul. We are so exceptionally lucky...
It's so incredible to see someone literally moved by music. He's "feeling it" isn't enough.
Classical piano teachers: Sit up straight, hold your elbows just so, curl your fingers, stop rocking back and forth.
Also classical piano teachers: Why can't my students *feel* the music?
So true!
No need to diss on classical music bro, just enjoy the performance.
@@orlando6773 k
@@orlando6773 He wasn't dissing classical music, he was dissing classical piano teachers
@@fred8097 I see that now, still vaguely the same thing though.
4:49 left hand, second measure sounds like a second (c-d) instead of g. Works well with the fingers position for the previous chord and continues with bb in the third measure.
0:47 Me trying to fight the voices in my head urging me to play the lick.
fuck this is so underrated 😂😂😂😂😂
That is the definitive picture of playing from the heart! Man he ain’t even thinking about it. It just flows.
One correction: right at the end, there's a g minor arpeggio written that should have b flat as the second note instead of d
What a nice catch - and kindly noted, too.
@@michaelfoxbrass is that a pun
Pretty sure he's also playing an a in the final chord (a tenth from the bassnote)
George Gershwin had an amazing ability to write these great melodies that sounded great on their own as written and yet also left plenty of space for an imaginative jazz artist to add their own unique sound to it. This is great playing.
It was composed by Harold Arlen
Oh, man. This reminds me of the time I heard the Dave Brubeck Quintet doing this song in concert. The woodwind player was on flute for the melody. Heartbreakingly beautiful.
I consider Keith Jarrett to be the best pianist on the planet who has ever lived. Flawless in jazz, flawless in classic music, remarkable composer and improviser. If I could be granted a wish to play exactly like any piano player out there - I would pick him without a second (or even first) thought. It's really sad that I never saw him live and now it's not a possibility what with the stroke he went through.
Seriously? Chopin? Rachmaninoff?
Liszt?
The way he can take such a popular song and give it so much texture feels inspirational.
touching! the instrument and the musician are one. he is giving everything from his heart up to touch the stars and he truly touches them and takes us there with him. Divine!
That last note... gah. Such a simple thing but executed with such beautiful perfection. Maybe Ill start swinging my neck around and see if helps. Practicing for 20 years doesnt seem to be working quite as good as I had hoped.
Absolutely Breathtaking. Thanks for writing it out too, George!
4:16 He wants to make a noise so bad!😅
What an absolute legend!!! Too sad that he can’t play anymore😔
P.S. Happy Jazz Appreciation month!!!
Why cant he play anymore?
Edit: nvmnd found it in the description. 2 strokes D:
Lol yeah. Great that it's all feeling though I don't care when he makes grunts or weird postures because the music he produces is worth it
@@nezkeys79 Indeed indeed. He is one of the kind in his generation
Keith is a beautiful player; his rhythmic and melodic flow is one of a kind.
The greatest musician of the 20th century. Thank you so much Mr Jarrett.
Very moving performance. I’ve never felt that piece as I did listening to him tonight. I’m astonished. And somebody is cutting onions in here…
Many have I heard, yet I think this piece is one of the best throughout my life.
Estoy completamente de acuerdo contigo . Es absolutamente maravilloso este arreglo que hace Jarrett !
My english teacher had a piano in his classroom and I used to play it before class. He showed me this guy, Keith Jarrett and said my improvisations reminded him of this guy. Cool solo.
This man is in the process of
A S C E N D I N G
The most beautiful place will be HEAVEN .No doubt about it. Thank you for the music sheet. I will play this
Holy crap. Tears - even when you know they're coming.
True
Thank you, George, for the outstanding transcription of a Keith Jarrett masterpiece. Keith's genius is on full display in this video, and the transcription is very accurate.
2:18 the necessary application of pianist vibrato
Lmfao
I apply vibrato on drums too
Yeah it's funny but just shows you that his mind is thinking way beyond the instrument. To think that he was "limited" in what sounds he hears in his head is just ridiculous when it still sounds this amazing
Marvelous... it seems he'd played so many versions of this piece but always different and unique. A man at the top of his art. What a lyricism!
Keith Jarrett is the "Frederic Chopin" on jazz piano. Like Chopin, he spontaneously invented the most beautiful melodies in his improvisations and will therefore survive for a long time to come.
He is the king of jazz counterpoint
Love Keith Jarrett
TENHO 79 ANOS E POSSO DIZER, QUE POUCOS PIANISTAS NESTE MUNDO, CONSEGUIRAM EXPRIMIR TAMANHA TERNURA E POESIA !!! O CORAÇÃO ACELERA, A GENTE CHORA E RESPIRA OFEGANTE... LINDO DEMAIS !!!!
I am glad you transcribed the whole thing. It’s so worth it.
Without question the best version of this piece I've heard.
Started seeing tears come out of my eyes upon listening to this tune by Keith.
The effect of Keith's playing uplifts my spirit. I felt like reaching out to those I might have wronged and making peace with them once I heard this tune
Watching this raises the classic question re Jarrett for me: how much of this was worked out in advance vs purely spontaneous? Some of those contrapuntal movements are so beautiful and clever it makes me think he had to have prepped this prior or is he that genius?
He had whole live albums where he had no idea what he was going to play heading in
@@littlelamb2112 that’s the rhetoric for sure but don’t you think he at least had some ideas walking in?
@@HSetonNotes improvisational musicians often have melodic vocabulary that they tend to use. I don’t think the stuff he was doing here was planned, but it was practiced, if that makes sense. Practicing improvisation is very much a thing, and people who mastered it (like him) can make it sound pre-written. So yes, “ideas” are practiced, but the exact notes are not, and not even necessarily for a specific song
Es una pregunta irrelevante. Simplemente hay que escuchar y disfrutar
@@littlelamb2112 👏👏👏
Thank you.
Once a tune transcends from listening to the artist, to being engulfed in its melody and pure listening pleasure, then you truly appreciate it's power.
Excellent post
I love how he plays the piano, sometimes it’s like he’s riding it, sometimes it’s like making love to it, sometimes it’s just a deep conversation with it…❤️
hey George Collier, I just realized you are very young, I am impressed and astonished by you taste in music and talent. Keep up the great work and thank you for sharing with us on this channel!
I can feel my back aching watching him
Absolutely magnificent and awe inspiring 🎶
This is so beautiful. This is how you truly enjoy music. It’s raw form. Combining all the notes together and adding notes to compliment a already legendary composition. This is passion at its stripped down form. This is so incredible! Words cannot explain the feeling. You just have to close your eyes and go to your wonderland. Bravo! Magnificent!! 🙌🙌🙌
He is a musical gift to the world… I feel blessed to be born a human to know his music… Have you guys listened to his HANDEL sonata album? I recommend it. Thanks for posting this Mr. Collier.
This piece looks easy to play the notes, and that's true. However try to sound like him and then you realise where the true difficulty lies
His phrasing and dynamics are so beautiful
Amazingly beautiful. Just what my ears needed today. 😊
This man is allergic to looking at the piano.
LOL
The piano is an extension of his body. He needs not look at the thing…
This is hilarious
Thank you for doing this, this rendition of somewhere over the rainbow is one I've been coming back to for years now.
Hi, nice work ! I think I hear a B flat instead of an A at 4:22 right hand melody. Also last left handed arpeggio at 5:20 the first 3 notes are F C A and not F C F. Not that it really matters just thought you'd like to see this considering how much time it must have taken you and all the hard to transcribe passages that you did wonderfuly.