The trio first played together in 1977, when Jarrett and DeJohnette played on Peacock's first ECM Records recording, Tales of Another (Jarrett and DeJohnette had already played together in the late-'60's with both Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis). In 1999, The Melody At Night, With You, a solo piano studio recording of classic melodies was released by ECM and has become one of the best selling instrumental recordings by a jazz artist in the past decade, winning many “Best of the Year” awards in Europe, Japan and the US.įor the past two decades, Keith Jarrett's main context for playing jazz has been his trio with bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Jack DeJohnette, which in 2003 celebrates its 20th Anniversary together. The sold out concert which featured five encores including solo versions of his popular compositions My Song and Paint My Heart Red was recorded and is being prepared for CD release by ECM in September 2006. On SeptemKeith Jarrett performed his first American solo concert in nearly a decade at New York’s Carnegie Hall. In May 2005, ECM released Radiance, a new 2-CD set of solo piano improvisations recorded live in Japan in November 2002. ![]() This body of solo piano work is without precedent with the Köln Concert being the best selling piano recording in history. The piano improvisations on Facing You, Solo Concerts, The Köln Concert, Staircase, Sun Bear Concerts, Moth and The Flame, Concerts, Paris Concert, Dark Intervals, Vienna Concert, and La Scala incorporate a broad spectrum of musical idioms and languages - classical, jazz, ethnic, gospel, folk, blues and pure sound - revealing a creative process based on a deeply conscious state of awakeness and listening in the moment, producing music both deeply personal, yet universal. The foundation of the Jarrett/ECM discography is made up of the landmark solo piano recordings which have helped redefine the role of the piano in contemporary music. This fruitful collaboration has produced over 60 recordings to date, unparalleled in their scope, diversity, and quality. ![]() In 1971, Keith Jarrett began his recording collaboration with German producer Manfred Eicher and ECM Records (Editions of Contemporary Music). Then in 1970/71, Jarrett became a featured member in Miles Davis' electric fusion group, playing electric piano and organ - his last stint as a sideman, thereafter, dedicating himself exclusively to performing acoustic music as a solo artist and as a leader. He soon led his own trio with Charlie Haden and Paul Motian (which in 1972 expanded to a quartet with the addition of tenor saxophonist Dewey Redman). From 1966 to 1968 he was the pianist with the Charles Lloyd Quartet which quickly became one of the most popular groups on the changing late-Sixties jazz scene with best-selling records and worldwide tours. While still in his late teens, arrangements were made to study composition in Paris with the great pedagogue Nadia Boulanger, but then canceled at the last moment in favor of moving to New York in 1964 to play jazz.Īfter a tentative period sitting in at the Village Vanguard and other New York jazz spots, Jarrett toured first with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. He undertook formal composition studies at age 15, before moving to Boston to briefly study at the Berklee College of Music. Born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Keith Jarrett began playing the piano at age 3 and undertook classical music studies throughout his youth performing as a child in programs at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia and at Madison Square Garden. Over the past 40 years, Keith Jarrett has come to be recognized as one of the most creative musicians of our times - universally acclaimed as an improviser of unsurpassed genius a master of jazz piano a classical keyboardist of great depth and as a composer who has written hundreds of pieces for his various jazz groups, plus extended works for orchestra, soloist, and chamber ensemble.
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