Keith Jarrett Fort Yawuh' title='Keith Jarrett Fort Yawuh' />Keith Jarrett Biography History. Pianist, composer, and bandleader Keith Jarrett is one of the most prolific, innovative, and iconoclastic musicians to emerge from the late 2. As a pianist though that is by no means the only instrument he plays, he literally changed the conversation in jazz by introducing an entirely new aesthetic regarding solo improvisation in concert. Though capable of playing in a wide variety of styles, Jarrett is deeply grounded in the jazz tradition. He has recorded over 8. And he has won the Down Beat Critics Poll as a pianist numerous times, including consecutively between 2. Keith Jarrett Fort Yawuh' title='Keith Jarrett Fort Yawuh' />Fort YawuhLive Keith Jarrett Verve 20150504 P 2015 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc. C 1973 The Verve Music Group, a Division of. Find Keith Jarrett biography and history on AllMusic Pianist, composer, and bandleader Keith Jarrett. Keith Jarrett Allentown, 8 maggio 1945 un pianista, clavicembalista e compositore statunitense. La sua carriera inizia con Art Blakey, Charles Lloyd e. This following table lists jazz pianist Keith Jarretts original albums as a leader and is followed by those on which he has played as a sideman. Soul Nomad Pcsx2 Windows on this page. MainArtist, MainArtist, Manfred EicherProducer, Keith JarrettRecording Producer, Martin Pearson. Jarrett was born May 8, 1. Allentown, Pennsylvania. At the age of three he began playing piano. He undertook the study of classical music at age eight, and at 1. Boston to study briefly at the Berklee College of Music. Still in his teens, Jarrett intended to further his academic work in Paris before deciding to move to New York in 1. He entered the citys vibrant scene by sitting in with veteran and aspiring players at clubs, including the Village Vanguard. His first touring gig was with Art Blakeys New Jazz Messengers, where he remained until 1. The lone recording with that band which also featured trumpeter Chuck Mangione was Buttercorn Lady, recorded live at the Lighthouse in Hermosa Beach. Jarrett joined Charles Lloyds famed quartet in 1. That band, which reflected the variety of changes taking place in jazz and popular music in general, achieved global success as both a recording and touring entity. He left the group in 1. Restoration Ruin, on the Vortex label. He played everything on the album including soprano saxophone, harmonica, drums, and guitar in addition to piano he even sang. The album is mainly considered a curiosity in his catalog because it wasnt a jazz album, but a folk rock recording. Regardless of how Jarrett regards it today, it stands as a brave undertaking from a young musician and paints an interesting view of his early thoughts in lieu of what he would accomplish later. Appearing the same year, he recorded Life Between the Exit Signs for Atlantic, where he led a trio whose rhythm section consisted of bassist Charlie Haden and Paul Motian. This group later a quartet with the addition of saxophonist Dewey Redman would record together for 1. Jarrett played organ and electric piano with Miles Davis between 1. Live at the Fillmore and LiveEvil. His work with Davis would also surface on the trumpeters 1. Get Up with It, and was beautifully documented on the box set Miles Davis The Cellar Door Session 1. Jarrett also appeared on other artists albums during this period, including Airtos Free, psychedelic pop duo Barbara Ernies Prelude To., and soul singer Donal Leaces self titled offering from 1. Jarrett and Gary Burton issued their self titled recording on Atlantic in 1. The Mourning of a Star. The pianist briefly signed to Columbia, releasing one enduring album for the label, Expectations, in 1. Sam Brown and Airto. The year also proved fruitful for two other reasons. The first was Facing You, Jarretts first solo piano recording for Manfred Eichers young ECM label, an association that would become symbiotic by the end of the decade. As previously mentioned, Redman joined Jarretts group in late 1. Birth, issued by Atlantic in 1. The band also recorded for Impulse Fort Yawuh 1. Treasure Island 1. Death and the Flower and Backhand 1. Mysteries 1. 97. Bya. Blue 1. 97. Bop Be 1. El Juicio The Judgement also appeared on Atlantic in 1. Jarretts horizons were broadening considerably in the early 7. ECM was deepening. While 1. 97. 2 saw the release of Ruta and Daitya, a duet album with Jack De. Johnette, 1. 97. 3 offered evidence of what would become iconic in the decades to come the improvised Solo Concerts Bremen Lausanne. In 1. 97. 5, Jarretts double live solo piano album The Kln Concert was released its warmth, accessibility, and immense and enduring popularity have made it the best selling solo piano recording in jazz history. His other solo piano works for ECM include Staircase, the ten album Sun Bear Concerts, Moth and the Flame, Concerts, Paris Concert, Dark Intervals, Vienna Concert, La Scala, Carnegie Hall Concert, and Rio. Jarrett began recording with a European group in the 7. His European quartet included saxophonist Jan Garbarek, bassist Palle Danielsson, and drummer Jon Christensen their debut, Belonging, appeared in 1. Simultaneously, Jarrett remained busy with his American quartet and with recording experimentation. In the Light, which was released in 1. His compositions were wide ranging among them were a string quartet, a brass quintet, and Crystal Moment Piece for Four Celli and Two Trombones. He also recorded a pair of albums co led with Garbarek, Luminescence 1. Arbour Zena, which included Haden on bass as well as chamber strings. In 1. 97. 6, the provocative HymnsSpheres, a double album of improvisations played on an enormous 1. Benedictine Abbey Ottobeuren, appeared on ECM. The pianists European quartet issued My Song in 1. Jarretts table, especially as it was surrounded by the releases of Bop Be and The Survivors Suite, the first of two releases by his American quartet to appear on ECM. That bands final album together, the live double album Eyes of the Heart, was released in 1. Jarrett kicked off the 8. Celestial Hawk For Orchestra, Percussion and Piano, recorded at Carnegie Hall. This work wed his instinctual improvisational discipline on the piano to his formal compositional abilities in both vanguard classical music and jazz. That year, his European quartet also released the live Nude Ants recorded at the Village Vanguard and Sacred Hymns, a solo piano album of compositions by metaphysical philosophermusician Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff. In 1. 98. 3, Jarrett began working in a trio with bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Jack De. Johnette. It was the beginning of an association that has lasted ever since. Their initial session produced three albums Standards, Vol. Vol. 2, and Changes the last a set of free improvisations. Throughout the decade they alternated between recording standards and freely improvised sets, among them 1. Standards Live and 1. Changeless. Jarrett also cut two deeply personal albums in the 8. Roman Transliteration Of The Holy Quran. In 1. 98. 6, Spirits, a double album, featured him playing piano, flute, recorder, soprano saxophone, guitar, and percussion. Another double, Book of Ways from 1. In 1. 98. 8, Jarrett began recording canonical classical music. His first release was Bachs Das Wohltemperierte Klavier Buch I, followed by his Goldberg Variations the following year. But he hadnt abandoned jazz. Jarrett closed the decade with records by his European quartet in Personal Mountains, and by his American trio with Changeless, in 1. While his first album of the 9. Paris Concert, the trio was also busy touring. They stopped briefly to record Bye Bye Blackbird in 1. Miles Davis. That said, Jarrett spent most of the decades first half recording classical music. These albums included collections of Handel and Bach sonatas both with Michala Petri playing recorder his award winning Shostakovich 2. Preludes and Fugues Op. Bachs French Suites in 1. Bach 3 Sonaten fr Viola da Gamba und Cembalo with violist Kim Kashkashian in 1. He also recorded W. A. Mozart Piano Concertos K. Masonic Funeral Music K. Symphony in G Minor K.