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How does Keith Jarrett come to Carnegie Hall? Alone.

January 13, 2011 by Howard Mandel

In my latest column in City Arts – New York, I share a few thoughts about the solo piano improvisations of Keith Jarrett. The headline’s not mine, I don’t get it — but the music he performs at Carnegie Hall Jan. 16 may be transcendent, as far beyond jazz as his last album of solo concerts, Paris/London (Testament) or as with jazz as his duets with Charlie Haden, Jasmine.

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Richard Mitnick says:

January 14, 2011 at 7:36 am

Great article in City Arts. Recommend the video
“Keith Jarrett: The Art of Improvisation” which is about a lot more than improv.
Ian Carey says:

January 14, 2011 at 2:36 pm

“Facing You” still blows me away–if they could bottle that stuff, I’d inject it. (BTW, “Automatic for the People” was an REM album from the 90s, although what that has to do with Jarrett I have no idea.)
Vincenzo Offrete says:

January 18, 2011 at 1:11 am

I would not even whistle a Jarrett tune.
He is reprehensible.

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Howard Mandel

I'm a Chicago-born and New York-based writer, editor, author, arts reporter/producer for radio including NPR, and nascent videographer -- for more than 30 years, a freelance arts journalist working on newspapers, magazines and websites, appearing on tv and radio, teaching at New York University and elsewhere. I'm president of the Jazz Journalists Association; my books are Future Jazz (Oxford U Press, 1999) and Miles Ornette Cecil - Jazz Beyond Jazz (Routledge, 2008). I was general editor of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Jazz and Blues (Flame Tree 2005/Billboard Books 2006) Read More…

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