E in piano virtuoso who the audience with Bach and Bartók as enthusiastic as his jazz improvisations is 70. And surprisingly not afraid of Keith Jarrett the limelight. The German music critic Wolfgang Sandner as he stood for a biography available: “Keith Jarrett” was released a few weeks ago. The Italian photographer Roberto Masotti, the jazz legend in front of a new tape with recordings from 1969 to 2011. And the French “Jazz Magazine” devotes its May issue.
For Jarrett birthday this Friday ECM are two new CDs out, “Creation” with jazz improvisations and the classic album “Samuel Barber / Béla Bartók “. Five albums from the years 1967 to 1976 come as a box set “Original Album Series” on the market. The station SWR2 celebrates the “fascinating oeuvre” of Jarrett late on Saturday (May 9th) in a four-hour program.
Most successful solo album of jazz history
Bald after his Ehretag the famous American plays in Naples (May 18) and in Lucerne (22 ‘of May) solos.
concerts with his trio, including bassist Gary Peacock and to the drummer Jack DeJohnette, are not currently planned. If Jarrett hits the keys, he is a magician. His legendary “The Köln Concert” (1975) with more than 3.5 million copies sold the most successful solo album of jazz history. “Few are able to wing so” sing “to be like Keith Jarrett,” reads the SWR2. He verflechte elements of classical, jazz, world music, gospel, Free and rock to new differentiated forms.
Each concert is something new
“what I’m paid, is to go in depth, “he told the” New York Times “again,” as in diving suit with mask, deep and deeper. ” A good audience let itself go along by him, “is part of my music.” Unrest among his hearers, a cough, phone or flash but get him out of the socket. But then he snaps sometimes made, threatened to cancel the concert, flight and reprimands.
Does the “emotional color” in a concert hall, “the audience is willing to follow me, no matter by what process I go “, his creativity and imagination have no limits. Then he improvised from the first stop to the applause, sometimes without ever exposing briefly. As never repeated Jarrett in his improvisations, each concert is a new work.
Perennial out
The lanky Americans with the crew cut was not yet three when he lessons on the piano got. With seven he gave his first concert, with twelve he went on tours and 17-year he completed an evening program exclusively with their own compositions.
Behind him is a break of several years. Jarrett was burned in the ’90s, suffered from chronic fatigue. He could no longer play. When the power came back slowly, he had to relearn his virtuosity. “Everything was different. I have music and its importance felt different,” Jarrett told the US public station NPR in 2000 in an interview. This will also not change. “I believe that we by circumstances (such as a serious illness) discover something that we as a busy artist otherwise not be able to see that.”
“You just have to be black”
Between his concerts Jarrett sets now breaks, make yourself at home on his farm in the 2,000-strong community Oxford in New Jersey to recover. It is located two hours from Manhattan and the beloved Carnegie Hall. Very close to this place Jarrett was once grown, the eldest of five children of a strict religious family.
Its origins have often initially raised questions, the white jazz musicians known in the NPR interview , How could he be the master of this originally Afro-American music? Among others the saxophonist Ornette Coleman had asked him: “You’re not black You just have to be black?”. Jarrett’s response? “I’m working on.”
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