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I listened most of Jarrett's works. I believe that this cd has something very special.It is a "must have" cd for those who like Keith Jarrett.
3 1/2Besides for its emotionally satisfying conclusion, some of the Paris improv elements have been integrated better before by the great player, and can come across as melodically repetitious. Of course much of Jarrett's searching solo style could be described that way, but even if it sounds a little less inspiring here, contrasted with two shorter functioning tracks will make this album an intriguing purchase for all piano fans barring Sun Bear worshipers.
Another dazzling performance, Keith starts out soft and lovely before bringing in some rthym gradually intensifying the music until he seems to be playing octaves until the music shimmers like the light on the waves of the ocean, then brings us to a peaceful conclusion. Jarrett is an artist who has consistently grown, ventured, dared, risked, challenged himself and his audience all very evident when you consider the recording Radiance of oncerts in Japan and the Carnegie Hall concert where he often uses some daring and challenging harmonic language not unlike Prokofiev or Scriabin. His music is often like a collage of different kinds of music, minimalism not the least of the parts, what many mistake for uninspired noodling that is actually a very effective sonic experience, probably the result of his spiritual meditations. While the Koln Concert of 1975 is more pleasantly melodic in many ways and justifiably famous, Mr. One can dismiss or one can embrace. The audiences at Carnegie Hall and plenty of other concerts are very loud in their approval.
i won't even grope for the adjectives to describe how magnificent this is (those around me already have). there are few people on earth who can do something like this and keith is one of them. what a brilliant monster. they're right. BUY THIS CONCERT and leave the chrysalis behind.
Yes, the composition reflects Jarrett's early classical training, but can't be strictly classified as a "classical" piece. Some 30 years later, I own over 40 of Jarrett's discs, part of an extensive collection of classical and jazz piano recordings numbering almost 2000. To me, this is the essence of music: to remind human beings of our humanity, to directly touch our emotions without any intervention by the conscious mind. The Paris Concert is one of my top-10 "desert island" discs, and when I read the one-star "review" by Mr.
He said, in somewhat broken English, "There is only good music and bad music. Feldman, I felt I had to offer a counter-perspective.The first track, "October 17, 1988", is, in my opinion, Jarrett's finest improvisational effort. A little over 37 minutes in duration, its beauty sweeps the listener away from the first note to the last. I've been a Keith Jarrett fan since 1977, when, as a college student, I attended one of his solo improvisation concerts in Boston. There is very little of Jarrett's humming, and the audience is exceptionally quiet; I like to think they were experiencing the same kind of rapture that I experience every time this disc is in my CD player. I've listened to this disc many times, most recently tonite, at the very beginning of the new year, and I'm always stunned at Jarrett's ability to stir feelings in me that I rarely experience in day-to-day living.
One would have to be very cold indeed to listen to "October 17", especially its last two minutes, and not be stirred, or stilled. A man who can conclude only that this is a "navel-gazing narcissistic atrocity" is a man who's lost his heart somewhere along life's way.The late tenor Luciano Pavarotti was criticized for expanding his song catalogue to include pop music from the likes of Bono, Elton John, and the Spice Girls.
If you don't have this disc, get it. I like to think that I know good piano music when I hear it.
Why should be elite, music. Neither is it jazz, in the formal sense.
Jarrett's music is, simply and truly, raw human emotion distilled into melody. Music must be for everybody." The Paris Concert is good music, exceptionally good.
That simple.
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