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Keith Jarrett: Standards I/II: Tokyo 1985 and 1986 All About Jazz, PA - Sep 06,2008 By John Kelman It's been a big year for piano icon Keith Jarrett and his longstanding Standards Trio. First, in October, 2007, ECM released My Foolish Heart ...

Jarrett's Journal: Community impacted by Gustav Asheville Citizen-Times, NC - Sep 2, 2008 Editor’s note: Senior writer Keith Jarrett is in Lafayette, La., about 150 miles west of New Orleans, helping with news coverage of Hurricane Gustav for the ...

Jarrett's Journal: Wednesday afternoon update from Louisiana Asheville Citizen-Times, NC - Sep 3, 2008 Editor’s note: Senior writer Keith Jarrett is in Lafayette, La., about 150 miles west of New Orleans, helping with news coverage of Hurricane Gustav for the ...

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The Köln Concert

Having been exposed to Jazz as a child and coming from three musical families I am very sensitive to music and Jarrett's perfomance moved me in a way only Billy Strayhorn (on piano) and Lester Young (on saxophone) had done so before in a duet of Duke Ellington's "Soltitude."

This is an essential "must-have" for the avid Jazz listener. ^..^~

Tracks:
    1. Part I
    2. Part II a
    3. Part II b
    4. Part II c

My Foolish Heart

Much of the fuss about this album seems to concern Jarrett's revisiting of stride style on three numbers. Jarrett has never had a reputation as an underachiever, and no doubt he wishes to prove a point--not about stride piano (which as played by James P. Johnson, Fats Waller, Earl Hines, Art Tatum and Oscar Peterson is the most technically challenging idiom for jazz piano improvisation), but about his own eligibility to be considered on the same level as a select group of players. In the hands of the masters, the style requires two hands that can think independently, a left hand no less inventive and dexterous than the right, a left-handed finger stretch that can play and "walk" tenths at a brisk pace, an inerrant sense of placement while leaping two or more octaves for every other beat on tunes frequently played "allegro" rather than moderato, and the control to make it all cohere as an effortless, seamless whole.

Tracks:
    1. Four
    2. My Foolish Heart
    3. Oleo
    4. What's New
    5. The Song Is You
    6. Ain't Misbehavin'
    7. Honeysuckle Rose
    8. You Took Advantage Of Me
    9. Straight, No Chaser
    10. Five Brothers
    11. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
    12. On Green Dolphin Street
    13. Only the Lonely

The Melody at Night, With You

In reply to those who think that the playing on this album is too simple, if any of them can make an album like this one, I'd like to know about it. I'd buy it in a minute. If Keith Jarrett should make one hundred more albums like this one, I'd buy every one. I'd especially like to have Over the Rainbow recorded in a studio without the coughing. I love just about every song on this album but Shenandoah stands out as the best. It is a masterpiece.


Tracks:
    1. I Loves You Porgy
    2. I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good
    3. Don't Ever Leave Me
    4. Someone To Watch Over Me
    5. My Wild Irish Rose
    6. Blame It On My Youth/Meditation
    7. Something To Remember You By
    8. Be My Love
    9. Shenandoah
    10. I'm Through With Love

My Song

Keith Jarrett and his European Quartet band including Jan Garbarek on Tenor and soprano, Palle Danielsson on Bass and Jon Christensen on drums.
This CD is best known as THE Jarrett-Garbarek album due to the beautiful track called "My song", one, among 6 other great compositions; as a matter of fact it is their most rewarding collaboration on records; loose and relaxed album, very pleasant to the ears.
As a personal opinion, this album ranks as my Jarrett's favorite CD other than "The Koln Concert".

Tracks:
    1. Questar
    2. My Song
    3. Tabarka
    4. Country
    5. Mandala
    6. The Journey Home

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