{"id":5374,"date":"2014-01-11T20:16:23","date_gmt":"2014-01-12T04:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=5374"},"modified":"2014-01-11T20:16:23","modified_gmt":"2014-01-12T04:16:23","slug":"the-new-nea-jazz-masters-keith-jarrett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2014\/01\/the-new-nea-jazz-masters-keith-jarrett\/","title":{"rendered":"The New NEA Jazz Masters: Keith Jarrett"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pianist Keith Jarrett is one of the four new NEA Jazz Masters who will accept their awards at Lincoln Center Monday evening. In its advance publicity, the National Endowment for the Arts says that Jarrett \"Jarrett,<\/a>has a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153talent for playing both abstractly and lyrically, sometimes during the same song.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d True as that assessment is, it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t begin to describe the brilliance of his work when he is at his peak of inspiration, as in the most recent recording<\/a> with his trio—one of five albums he released last year—or when he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in full flight in one of his celebrated solo concerts. Nor does the news release touch on Jarrett\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s relationship with his audiences, whom he says are vital to the success of his live performances. However, if his listeners misbehave by, say, coughing or hoisting a camera, he may dress them down in anger—or walk off the stage. <\/p>\n

In this short pre-ceremony interview provided by the NEA, Jarrett discusses what he expects of audiences, the three decades of his trio with Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette, his spontaneous wordless vocals, and how he came to jazz in the first place. <\/p>\n

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