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Keith Jarrett (with Jim Pepper): Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music May 05, 08

The pairing of pianist Jarrett with the tragically under-recorded tenor saxophonist Jim Pepper seems like a dream mat...

Gary Burton & Keith Jarrett: Como en Vietnam (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music March 16, 08

The date tells it: this mythic record was taped in a single studio session! Those were the days, for sure, where musi...

Keith Jarrett: The Survivors' Suite (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music June 04, 08

As with so many other Jarrett extended combo works from this period (such as "Mysteries" and "Death and the Flower"),...

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Keith Jarrett (featuring Jan Garbarek): The Windup (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music May 06, 09

Beginning in the '70s, some of the most consistently interesting soprano saxophonists could be found in Europe. One o...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: A SHORT HISTORY OF THE SOPRANO SAX

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Keith Jarrett: Death and the Flower (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music June 04, 08

Keith Jarrett delighted in subverting the familiar conventions of the piano-led jazz band with his early 1970s combo ...

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Keith Jarrett: Strollin' (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music January 27, 09

Here's an odd turn of events. Back in his youth, Keith Jarrett was a member of Jazz Messengers, and he completely de...

Keith Jarrett: In Front (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 29, 07

Here on the opening track of his first solo piano recording, Keith Jarrett announces a new era of jazz keyboard music...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ECM - THE FIRST DECADE

The ECM record label, founded by Manfred Eicher in 1969, continues to expand our musical horizons after almost four d...

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Keith Jarrett: (If The) Misfits (Wear It) (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music June 04, 08

Here is a glimpse of Keith Jarrett the avant-garde experimentalist, the combo leader who built a band around former O...

Keith Jarrett: Encore (Tokyo) (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music April 03, 09

For much of the 1970s, Keith Jarrett was releasing so much music that few fans or critics could keep up with him. He...

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Keith Jarrett: The Journey Home (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music April 03, 09

When Keith Jarrett left behind his highly esteemed American quartet for a new band of Norwegians, the jazz world was ...

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Keith Jarrett: Love No. 1 (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music February 18, 09

Life Between the Exit Signs was Keith Jarrett's debut release as leader, and expectations were high, given the major ...

Keith Jarrett: Common Mama (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music March 27, 08

(Editor's note: With the enormous amount of revered material Keith Jarrett has released as a solo performer and with ...

This track review is included in: DESERT ISLAND DOZENS: PETER ERSKINE

In the music world, but especially in the jazz world, everyone wants to know what everybody else is listening to. So ...

Keith Jarrett: The Köln Concert: Part I (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music April 27, 08

Have you seen the YouTube clip of Keith Jarrett haranguing yet another of his audiences, in this case at Umbria in 20...

Keith Jarrett: Rotation (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music July 01, 08

To my ears, Keith Jarrett's American Quartet, which featured Jarrett, Redman, Haden and Motian and played throughout ...

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Ben Allison, recently featured in an interview and concert review on jazz.com, now participates in our "Desert Islan...

Keith Jarrett: Shades of Jazz (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music April 07, 09

Keith Jarrett’s “American Quartet” with Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden and Paul Motian has always been one of my favorit...

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Not many jazz musicians have had a stronger revitalizing and sustaining impact on the everyday NYC jazz scene over ...

Keith Jarrett: Bremen, Germany, July 12, 1973, Part I (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music December 20, 07

Jazz musicians have always emphasized improvisation in their work. But few have taken this reliance on spontaneous c...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ECM - THE FIRST DECADE

The ECM record label, founded by Manfred Eicher in 1969, continues to expand our musical horizons after almost four d...

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Keith Jarrett: Intro / Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music January 27, 09

This Jerome Kern standard is probably more popular with the general public than with jazz musicians—in other words, y...

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Keith Jarrett: My Funny Valentine (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music March 06, 08

Keith Jarrett's membership on the Jazz Messengers alumni roll may surprise some, yet in January 1966, Art Blakey asse...

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There are post-Swing Era bandleaders, and then there is Art Blakey. After a brief time spent developing his craft by ...

Keith Jarrett: Bridge of Light for Viola & Orchestra (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music April 03, 09

Keith Jarrett's work as an orchestral composer is documented in a series of releases, including In the Light (1973), ...

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Keith Jarrett: Autumn Leaves (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music January 27, 09

The Keith Jarrett Standards Trio has recorded frequently, and maintained a high level of inspiration for more than a ...

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