LeRoy Sanders, Cliff Guren, Philip DiTullio, Robert Pillow and Bebra Washington, Congratulations! You're the lucky winners of the ECM Records "Keith Jarrett - Paris/London: Testament" giveaway. All About Jazz will contact you about claiming your prize. We'd like to thank everyone who participated in the contest and please visit ECM Records for more releases...
The clampdown on cameraphones at the London jazz festival is stopping a vibrant and spontaneous art form from reaching a wider audience online The ushers certainly had their work cut out. During this year's 250-gig London jazz festival , the capital's major concert halls tried to curb the increasing number of fans using cameraphones to record unrepeatable performances from the world's greatest jazz...
Afterglow - Crowded House. Neil Finn and the boys tossed this stuff aside?? Concerti Grossi - Handel - The Academy of Ancient Music. I've been listening to a lot of Handel lately ( Here and here ) Handel Suites for Keyboard - Keith Jarrett. You play this over and over and over or your money back. . .someone will buy it. Difford & Tilbrook - Difford & Tilbrook. I could listen to this album until...
Young jazz pianist doing a solo set at the NCEM. Funny, although he is brilliant I felt the need for a rhythm section on some numbers, to vary the sound a bit and give it some shape. Keith Jarrett I like solo better than with a group – reverse for Simcock – who played with [...]
Bill Charlap Trio University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan October 2, 2009 While much of the credit for reinventing the standard repertoire via the piano trio can go to {{Keith Jarrett = 7984}}, the pianist's muse is more about using such chestnuts as a launching point for his own self-probing and extended improvisations. In the case of fellow pianist {{Bill Charlap = 5644}}, the focus is on just...
Here’s a beautiful track from Keith Jarrett’s latest album, Paris / London: Testament , a two-CD set recorded live at the Salle Pleyel in Paris, and the Royal Festival Hall in London. (Here it is at the iTunes Store .) This is Part VII of the Paris set. [Video]
Miles Davis: The Complete Columbia Album Collection, a deluxe CD/DVD box set, contains every album released by the jazz master on Columbia Records. This limited edition retrospective of 70 CDs and one DVD will be released on November 24.
For the past twenty or so years, pianist Keith Jarrett has alternated between extemporaneous solo performances and trio recordings with his longtime bandmates Gary Peacock and Jack JeJohnette. This three disc collection is a recording of two long solo performances recorded live in Europe. It is a fascinating, if exhausting listening experience with Jarrett moving from gentle melodic improvisations...
Soft Machine Live at Henie Onstad Arts Centre 1971 Reel Recordings 2009 It's a curious thing, but live performances can be issued all the time in the jazz world without the suggestion that there are too many of them, while in the rock world the release of too many similar programs will be criticized as excessive. Pianist {{Keith Jarrett = 7984}}'s last three releases with his longstanding Standards...
WHEN WILL THE BLUES LEAVE KING KORN Paul Bley Footloose! Savoy : 1964 PB, piano; Steve Swallow, bass; Pete La Roca, drums. We’re pleased to present another stellar guest post from longtime friend of the site Ethan Iverson, of The Bad Plus. A reminder that Do The Math remains essential reading for any jazz fan, for Ethan’s wide-ranging interviews, surveys, and [...]
Last night US pianist Kirk Lightsey played with an energy and intensity that belied his years (he's in his Seventies). Kirk delighted the audience with a set that was passionate, joyful and virtuosic. Elements of his playing include they way he balances hard bop soulfulness and with the harmonic complexities of Bill Evans. He has a fiercely strong left hand - jabbing away in a bebop style, playing...
A friend of mine who does not like jazz–especially anything that has a saxophone in it–told me once about a conversation she and her ex-husband, a serious jazz-lover, had over dinner with a couple, the male half of which also loved jazz, while the female half felt similarly to my friend. This second woman defined [...]
Meet ade ishs: Ade Ishs (IPA: EOEdE iE ) is a songwriter and a pianist currently residing in Melbourne, Australia. He was born in 1978 in Bandung, Indonesia. His playing style revolves around contemporary jazz, classical, and meditative. He has been compared with {{Lyle Mays = 9197}}, {{Keith Jarrett = 7984}}, and {{Dave Grusin = 7275...
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