Keith Jarrett (musician)

Keith Jarrett , is a Pianiste, Saxophoniste, Flûtiste, Percussionniste, Organiste, Claveciniste, Guitariste and American Compositeur (Allentown, Pennsylvania, May 8th 1945).

Biography

Born on May 8th, 1945 in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Keith Jarrett takes its first lessons of Piano at three years. It gives its first concert to seven years and a recital of its own compositions with seventeen. If he refuses a grant to Paris at Nadia Boulanger, he accepts off that of the Berklee School Music with Boston where it forms its first trio.

In 1965, left for New York, it records with Don Jacoby and the College all Stars and collaborates with various musicians (Roland Kirk, Tony Scott,…) then made party of the Jazz Messengers of Art Blakey: recorded in 1966, the album Buttercorn lady will be the only phonographic trace.

This same year, it integrates the group of the saxophonist Charles Lloyd (with Jack DeJohnette, Cecil McBee or Ron McClure) and then becomes the new revelation of the piano, stealing the high-speed motorboat with the leader of the group. World tour and phonographic prolixity, the saxophonist does not hesitate to let Jarrett only play at least one of his own compositions to each concert. The group separates in 1968.

Keith Jarrett then forms a trio in company of Charlie Haden with low and Paul Motian with the battery and starts to record under its own name.

In 1970, constrained to play of the electric keyboards, he becomes the pianist of the group of Miles Davis while carrying out a career of Sideman (near Gary Burton, Freddie Hubbard, Paul Motian); its trio becomes quartet by integrating the saxophonist Dewey Redman, resulting from the group of Ornette Coleman.

Between two concerts with Miles Davis, Jarrett records her first opus with the piano solo on ECM Facing you in 1972, prelude to a very long association with Manfred Eicher, producer of the phonographic company. Three years later, the same producer will record Jarrett alone with his piano at the time of a concert with Cologne ( The Köln concert , 1975), the album is a success which will not be contradicted with time.

After a short collaboration with Jean-François Jenny-Clark (low) and Aldo Romano (battery), Keith Jarrett forms its second quartet, known as quartet European , with Jan Garbarek with the saxophones, the bass player Palle Danielsson and the beater Jon Christensen without forsaking for as much its American formation.

Dissolution of the quartet American in 1976 and of the Belonging Band (quartet European) in 1979. Inauguration in 1983 of a new trio with the album Bruise Another off, under the name of the double bass player Gary Peacock, in company of Jack DeJohnette. Standards and original compositions, the formation crosses the decades to reach success that one knows to him still today.

In the Eighties and Nineties, Keith Jarrett is devoted the traditional scene parallel to. In addition to its experiments of improvisation to the organ baroque and the harpsichord, he interprets Bach, Haendel, Mozart but also Chostakovitch as well as contemporary type-setters like Lou Harrison, Peggy Glanville-Hicks and composes itself for this repertory of the parts for orchestra ( In the Light , 1973; The Celestial Hawk , 1980), of the chamber music ( Support off Light , 1993),…

At the end of the Nineties, reached chronic Syndrome of tiredness, the pianist is constrained to reduce his activity for a time.

Since 2000, Jarrett oscillates between its formation in trio and the piano solo.

In 2004, Keith Jarrett receives the Léonie Sonning Music Award. This prestigious distinction is usually decreed with type-setters and interpreters of Classical music. Before him, only one musician of jazz had profited from it: Miles Davis. Igor Stravinski had been the first recipient in 1959.

The musician

Keith Jarrett also plays of the Clavecin, of the Clavicorde, the Orgue. One can hear it play of these instruments in particular on the albums Sprits , Invocations , and Spheres . It is often forgotten that Jarrett is an poly-instrumentalist: Guitarist, Singer, Beater, saxophonist, Flutist (to listen to Restoration ruin ), as many instruments which are not without having a repercussion on its play of pianist.

One of the features characteristic of Keith Jarrett is the vocal expression of its emotions and its movements of dance when he plays. One finds them in his improvisations solo with the piano and the recordings of jazz, but not in the traditional recordings.

To touch delicate with a style strongly inspired of the guitar folk, the pianist knew to release in all the directions of the term the piano by a complete exploitation of the instrument: rubbed or scraped cords, effects of pedals literally being used to him as box with rate/rhythm in certain circumstances, controls note in its attack and its resonance. Lastly, if its services in solo are, according to its remarks, neither of the Jazz nor of the Classical music, they hold primarily of the influence of the two styles to which it can be prided to result. And if one had to name only two of its sources of inspiration: Bill Evans and Claude Debussy.

In spite of its talent of musician, Keith Jarrett is also known for its characterial attitudes (eccentric requirements as at the time of its passages to Marciac).

Complete discography

External bonds

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Discography of Keith Jarrett at ECM
'' the magician '', interview of Keith Jarrett by Paola Genone in the magazine the Express train.

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