in his element:. Keith Jarrett, 1999 in Copenhagen
In 1972, the great Canadian pianist Glenn Gould gave an interview. His interlocutor was himself. And for good reason. He wanted, if it already the word is turned upside down in the mouth, be at least one who does that. Interviews to conduct with himself, to such an idea even the shy American pianist Keith Jarrett could not have come, who shares with his colleagues from Toronto who died more than a bizarre behavior. Pianist of distinction are often mimosas of vulnerable sensibility that is trying to raise with strange actions and neurotic quirks about the constant stress of the concert. Glenn Gould drew the consequence of the permanent high-performance discipline, avoided the public appearance and performed by his thirty-second year of life to only in the studio.
Keith Jarrett did the opposite. After overcoming a serious illness – chronic fatigue syndrome – he has since the late nineties, apart from a duo recording with bassist Charlie Haden, no longer went to recordings into the studio, not even in his own in his home in Oxford, New Jersey. But his concerts were more and more entwined with a refusal ritual, which in turn also Glenn Gould could cultivate: no pictures; no cough; No lack of concentration; total fixation on the musical moment. It is nevertheless a marginal phenomenon that should not detract from the music, a free improvisation that today so dominated no other artist like him and the cosmos historical jazz styles from ragtime to free jazz and the harmonic-melodic expression scale as the canon of John Dowland includes up to John Cage.
If you overlook the career of Keith Jarrett, one will notice that it is a remarkable consistency, even if Jarrett repeatedly shifted his audience with unusual activities in astonishment. Apparently knew the prodigy with perfect pitch from the start, where would lead his way. At least not in the shallows of cocktail bars, where he briefly survival tested as a teenager in Boston as a musician, but in the parnassische height Carnegie Hall, which is still regularly sold out when he or trio with Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette solo appearance with jazz improvisation and classical compositions.
As in 1988 he brought out the first book of the Well-Tempered Clavier by Bach, only that part of the public was surprised at the early classical career Jarrett had left its mark. With seven years he gave his first recital, among others, Bach, Beethoven and Schumann, afterwards formed with his three-year younger, playing the violin brother Eric is an amazing prodigy duo.
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