i was at one of his concerts where he abruptly stopped and demanded that people stopped coughing. my friend and i got up and left to see Stanley Turrentine at a local club and had a great time!😑🔥
I had a similar experience in the early 80’s (with Jarrett). He became less emotionally fragile over the years, but still very demanding of himself and his audience. As for the negative opinion of Turrentine, that’s just adolescent bullshit.
There's a time for whoopin' and whistles and a time for quite in a concert. I saw Weather Report around 1980 with Jaco. He went into a solo and the crowd was pretty noisy to say the least, so he walked up to the mic and said, "Shut the f**k up". Everyone did just that and I was happy they did. Jaco knew that silence would produce a better listening experience in that moment. Love Stanley Turrentine and I gotta say, I'd never walk out on an artist that requested something of his audience.
Thanks for a really excellent documentary. The only addition I could suggest would be to also highlight the many beautiful Standards Trio recordings with Gary Peacock and Jack deJonnette. For me, they are his greatest achievements. Being based on familiar tunes, they follow a definable format and are therefore accessible to the wider audience but they still showcase his unique melodic, harmonic and rhythmic depths in combination with outstanding virtuosity.
The complaints about lack of form are silly. That's not how his mind works. People should keep in mind that Beethoven, Chopin, and Liszt were avid improvisors, playing for hours a time. I doubt that their improvisations had immaculate form. Beethoven would improvise, take what he had created out of the blue, and go home and impose a form on these ideas.
What you say about "Peace Piece" is very interesting - I'd never thought of that as an influence. I think, though, that the work of Paul Bley was important to him - even that he influenced Bley toward the end of Bley's career. Some of Bley's last ECM recordings seem to me to show that influence. Whole books could be written....
A much less know and early influence on Keith's piano style, is a fellow Allentown, PA pianist called John Coats, Jr. Coatswas about 6/7 years older and like Keith, he played in area;s venues. Keith actually subbed for Coats' drummer - starting around the time Keith was 15, 16 years old - and ended up accompanying him (on drums!) many times, and had a chance to hear Coats imporvise on a nightly basis. By all acounts of folks who were around then, Coats was a very fine improvisor in his own right even then, with a trade mark phrasing and a sort of 'Gospel-Jazz' approach. But he chose to remain local and never became famous, whereas Keith leaving for Boston, then NYC - coupled with his natural, prdigious talent - led him to world wide acclaim. But Coats' influence on Keith was significant, style wise and would end up making a large chunk of the meat of Jarrett's style. There are recordings of Coats out there, and plenty of forum posts discussing this largely unacknowledged influence.
One of my favorite pianists, but I could care less what race he is, or isn't. That kind of thinking is a waste of time and energy. It's about the art, period.
This feels like AI wrote it. Definitely an AI narrator. A fan or music writer would have made one comment about the speculation about his race and moved on to the substance. AI doesn't know what matters and will be like a dog with a bone over an insignificant thing and gloss over important things. This gave us his whole family tree, talked about his hair, talks about the ubiquity of afros in America in the 70's, that he was too animated to be white, named other musicians that didn't think he was white. It just kept digging on that. Just trying to get those Minutes Viewed run up to hit the monetized threshold then have their trash videos making passive income forever. AI needs to be tagged and subscribers should have the option to block AI created content from recommends and searches.
I saw Keith at this last concert in New York in February 2017… he went on a 30 minute rant about Donald trump, then he kicked out two people for taking photos… other than that best concert I’ve ever seen
We should strive to be color blind. I think it's Totally JIVE to even try to consider RACE! Just listen and if you're a player get in the shed and try to emulate his Tone! Man! What piano tone! No one else holds my interest at the piano but he! With all due respect to Bill and Bud and hundreds of others!
@@rillloudmother Jazz is an English word, when improvisational music is a primal human aspect of life. All humans are born singing and dancing but most lose it by the age of five.
I remember reading his notes to his Bach recording. My memory of the detail is vague; but the gist of what he said is that Bach's music is so great that it needs no interpretation - just follow the score exactly and add nothing of your own. This is such rubbish that it made me despair of him. If anyone has access to the recording and notes I'd be glad to learn what my memory might have distorted.
Not true. His Handel is unmatched, in my opinion. His Shostakovitch is very fine. His version of the Harrison concerto is probably unequalled. I don't like his Mozert, I must admit.
@@daigreatcoat44 I think he just wrote "This music doesn't need me". I get that sentiment. Piano music by Bach approached as if it's Chopin misses the point imho.
Absolute genius. Greatest improviser ever.
i was at one of his concerts where he abruptly stopped and demanded that people stopped coughing. my friend and i got up and left to see Stanley Turrentine at a local club and had a great time!😑🔥
Your loss and Jarrett's gain. Stanley Turrentine stinks, and if you think he's worth your time and Keith Jarrett is not, you are a head case.
I had a similar experience in the early 80’s (with Jarrett). He became less emotionally fragile over the years, but still very demanding of himself and his audience. As for the negative opinion of Turrentine, that’s just adolescent bullshit.
Stan is the boss 🔥
There's a time for whoopin' and whistles and a time for quite in a concert. I saw Weather Report around 1980 with Jaco. He went into a solo and the crowd was pretty noisy to say the least, so he walked up to the mic and said, "Shut the f**k up". Everyone did just that and I was happy they did. Jaco knew that silence would produce a better listening experience in that moment. Love Stanley Turrentine and I gotta say, I'd never walk out on an artist that requested something of his audience.
Well then you lost out.
Facing You is my favorite Jarrett album…much soul.
That’s one of the heavier ones, not sure why these clowns only talk about Koln as if sales dictate importance. Stupid.
He has full use of his right hand and can still produce some great improvizations.
Thanks for a really excellent documentary. The only addition I could suggest would be to also highlight the many beautiful Standards Trio recordings with Gary Peacock and Jack deJonnette. For me, they are his greatest achievements. Being based on familiar tunes, they follow a definable format and are therefore accessible to the wider audience but they still showcase his unique melodic, harmonic and rhythmic depths in combination with outstanding virtuosity.
The complaints about lack of form are silly. That's not how his mind works. People should keep in mind that Beethoven, Chopin, and Liszt were avid improvisors, playing for hours a time. I doubt that their improvisations had immaculate form. Beethoven would improvise, take what he had created out of the blue, and go home and impose a form on these ideas.
I love artists like this
We need something different
What you say about "Peace Piece" is very interesting - I'd never thought of that as an influence. I think, though, that the work of Paul Bley was important to him - even that he influenced Bley toward the end of Bley's career. Some of Bley's last ECM recordings seem to me to show that influence. Whole books could be written....
A much less know and early influence on Keith's piano style, is a fellow Allentown, PA pianist called John Coats, Jr.
Coatswas about 6/7 years older and like Keith, he played in area;s venues. Keith actually subbed for Coats' drummer - starting around the time Keith was 15, 16 years old - and ended up accompanying him (on drums!) many times, and had a chance to hear Coats imporvise on a nightly basis.
By all acounts of folks who were around then, Coats was a very fine improvisor in his own right even then, with a trade mark phrasing and a sort of 'Gospel-Jazz' approach. But he chose to remain local and never became famous, whereas Keith leaving for Boston, then NYC - coupled with his natural, prdigious talent - led him to world wide acclaim. But Coats' influence on Keith was significant, style wise and would end up making a large chunk of the meat of Jarrett's style. There are recordings of Coats out there, and plenty of forum posts discussing this largely unacknowledged influence.
@@tiluriso Thanks very much - I'll listen to Coats.
Ahmad Jamal, Bill Evans, Paul Bley, Dave Brubeck and the pianist who played at the Deer Head In. were some of his influences.
Thank you ❤
One of my favorite pianists, but I could care less what race he is, or isn't. That kind of thinking is a waste of time and energy. It's about the art, period.
This feels like AI wrote it. Definitely an AI narrator. A fan or music writer would have made one comment about the speculation about his race and moved on to the substance. AI doesn't know what matters and will be like a dog with a bone over an insignificant thing and gloss over important things. This gave us his whole family tree, talked about his hair, talks about the ubiquity of afros in America in the 70's, that he was too animated to be white, named other musicians that didn't think he was white. It just kept digging on that. Just trying to get those Minutes Viewed run up to hit the monetized threshold then have their trash videos making passive income forever.
AI needs to be tagged and subscribers should have the option to block AI created content from recommends and searches.
I saw Keith at this last concert in New York in February 2017… he went on a 30 minute rant about Donald trump, then he kicked out two people for taking photos… other than that best concert I’ve ever seen
Why isn't the incidental music by Jarrett?
its copyrighted
We should strive to be color blind. I think it's Totally JIVE to even try to consider RACE! Just listen and if you're a player get in the shed and try to emulate his Tone! Man! What piano tone! No one else holds my interest at the piano but he! With all due respect to Bill and Bud and hundreds of others!
What do you say when a documentary about Keith Jarrett is way more interesting than Keith Jarrett?
You say that you are clueless.
@@renakmans3521 Yup. Lots of stuff leaves me clueless. You are astute about your observation
I never met a person with black skin in my entire life. That's so American.
jazz is so american...
@@rillloudmother Jazz is an English word, when improvisational music is a primal human aspect of life. All humans are born singing and dancing but most lose it by the age of five.
His Ego was much greater than his Talent......So Overrated!!!!
BS. The guy is a peerless pianist, especially as a solo pianist
It’s actually your ego that had to make the comment, it’s huge.😮
His classical recordings are infamously bad
I remember reading his notes to his Bach recording. My memory of the detail is vague; but the gist of what he said is that Bach's music is so great that it needs no interpretation - just follow the score exactly and add nothing of your own. This is such rubbish that it made me despair of him. If anyone has access to the recording and notes I'd be glad to learn what my memory might have distorted.
Not true. His Handel is unmatched, in my opinion. His Shostakovitch is very fine. His version of the Harrison concerto is probably unequalled. I don't like his Mozert, I must admit.
@@daigreatcoat44 I think he just wrote "This music doesn't need me". I get that sentiment. Piano music by Bach approached as if it's Chopin misses the point imho.
Ain’t look white to me😀