"Rio" cover

Keith Jarrett’s next album, a recording of the April 9, 2011 solo concert in Rio de Janeiro, is now listed on Amazon (US, UK, and France). It will apparently be released on October 25, 2011 and will simply be called “Rio”. It is also interesting to note that it is going to be a 2-CD set (meaning that it will include the entire concert?). Thanks to Olivier for this information!

Update (August 29, 2011). According to Amazon Germany, “Rio” will be released on October 1, 2011. Thanks to Jonas for letting me know!

Update (September 1, 2011). Amazon now has the cover art for “Rio”. Also, the release date for the US is apparently October 18, 2011.

Update (September 30, 2011). The release dates for “Rio” on Amazon are now: October 19 (Japan), October 25 (France), November 4 (Germany), November 7 (UK), and November 8 (US).

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Paul Gambaccini presents the award-winning series that re-visits the occasions on which a classic live album was recorded. He hears from those who were there, on-stage, backstage and in the audience, to re-create the event for all of us who, each time we play the album, think: ‘If only I could have been there’.

Thanks to Cristiano for the information.

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Keith Jarrett, The Köln Concert:

“The epochal double-album. Keith Jarrett’s 1975 “The Köln Concert” is one of the handful of jazz records that have changed the history of the music. The best-selling solo piano recording of all time, this endlessly inventive and highly lyrical recital reveals a master improviser creating forms in the moment. – Now available as 180g audiophile vinyl edition!”

Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock & Jack DeJohnette, Still Live:

“Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, and Jack DeJohnette captured live in full creative flood in the Munich Philharmonie, stretching the standards to shape new music, as Jarrett originals segue into “You And The Night And The Music” and “Someday My Prince Will Come”.”

Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock & Jack DeJohnette, Tribute:

“Keith Jarrett returns to Köln – this time with his trio – to pay tribute to the great jazz improvisers through the medium of standards, renewing songs associated with John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Jim Hall, Lee Konitz, Sonny Rollins and more.”

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• Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden, Jasmine (BBC, May 12)
• Keith Jarrett/Charlie Haden: Jasmine (Guardian, May 13)
• Jasmine on Their Mind (The New Yorker, May 17)
• Jasmine (All About Jazz, May 18)
• “Jasmine” – reviewed by Tim Owen (The Jazz Mann, May 21)
• Jasmine (The New York Times, May 24)
• Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden: Jasmine (Slant Magazine, May 24)
• A brilliant improvisation three decades in the making (The Globe And Mail, May 25)
• Music Review: Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden – Jasmine (Blogcritics, May 25)
• Review: Jarrett, Haden reunite after 30 years (Associated Press, May 25)
• Album review: Keith Jarrett & Charlie Haden’s ‘Jasmine’ (Los Angeles Times, May 26)
• Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden: reunited and it feels so good (Ottawa Citizen, May 26)
• Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden – Jasmine (100 Greatest Jazz Albums, May 27)
• Keith Jarrett/Charlie Haden: Jasmine on ECM (JazzTimes, May 28)
• Jasmine (Between sound and space, May 29)
• Keith Jarrett & Charlie Haden duets (Stereophile, May 31)

NPR has a 14-minute interview with Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden available online:

• Charlie Haden And Keith Jarrett Channel The Standards (NPR, May 23)

If you know of an interesting review or interview not listed here, feel free to leave a message in the forum (see link below).

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“You are on the web site of ECM Records in Munich, the only address that can supply a fully comprehensive stock of currently available ECM, ECM New Series, Japo, Watt, XtraWatt, JCOA and Carmo titles.

To order, click on the “Order” link on the catalogue page of the CD you’d like to buy.

If you prefer, you can find “brick and mortar” retailers via our distributors worldwide. Visit their web sites or email them for information about local purchasing options.”

Thanks to Jon for reminding me this!

You can also find a list of “digital platforms and portals” in their FAQ. “Of these services, HDtracks and Qobuz offer ECM music in ‘lossless’ formats.” “Jasmine” is already available from Qobuz, for example (320 kbps MP3s, lossless 16-bit / 44.1 KHz, and high-definition 24-bit / 44.1 KHz).

Update (May 15, 2010). According to ECM Records USA, Amazon and iTunes are the “recommended” online stores to pre-order “Jasmine” in the US, not iclassics.com.

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• Monday, May 3 (19h10 > 20h00): Keith Jarrett 1/4 – Le sideman
• Tuesday, May 4 (19h10 > 20h00): Keith Jarrett 2/4 – Le compositeur
• Wednesday, May 5 (19h10 > 20h00): Keith Jarrett 3/4 – L’improvisateur
• Thursday, May 6 (19h10 > 20h00): Keith Jarrett 4/4 – Le work in progress
• Saturday, May 8 – Sunday, May 9 (1h00 > 7h00): nuit spéciale

An exclusive interview conducted by Alex Dutilh will be broadcast, as well as concerts recorded by France Musique (Paris, June 9, 1972, with Charlie Haden and Paul Motian, among others).

“Cet entretien inédit sert de fil conducteur à une nuit conçue comme une quête de soi, où des concerts enregistrés par France Musique (notamment le trio de 1972 à la Maison de Radio France avec Charlie Haden et Paul Moian) alterneront avec ses plus belles pages discographiques.”

Thanks to KeithJarrett.it for the information!

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Update (May 15, 2010). The video was created by Kinetic Media NYC. You can also watch it on their website.

"Jasmine" cover

Here’s the tracklist for “Jasmine” (from Amazon):

1. For All We Know
2. Where Can I Go Without You
3. No Moon At All
4. One Day I’ll Fly Away
5. Intro – I’m Gonna Laugh You Right Out Of My Life
6. Body And Soul
7. Goodbye
8. Don’t Ever Leave Me

The liner notes (by Keith Jarrett) are also available from Amazon. Here’s an excerpt:

“Music is an amazing thing. It doesn’t exist as a stationary object. It moves in real time and can be uplifting both to the player and the listener. The melting, trans-figurative moment, that feeling of everything being there, just for an instant, that surrender that overcomes us as players (if we’re good enough) and leads us on to the next pregnant second, patient in the knowledge that there always is, waiting in the wings, the next chance to feel this fullness and celebrate it (as it is only in the nature of art to produce it this way); to this we dedicate our lives. But it is not for us alone; it is also made for you, the listener, to feel these same feelings along with us, to participate and to also be uplifted by it. (…)”

“Jasmine” will be released in May 2010 (on May 3 in France and on May 25 in the US, for example).

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Update (March 11, 2010). From Steve Lake (ECM Records, originally posted on JazzCorner.com): “Early in 2007, Jarrett was asked to contribute to a Haden documentary (“Rambling Boy”) and they played briefly together, for the first time since the 1976 break-up of the American Quartet . A few months later, Jarrett invited Haden to his home studio and they recorded in duo over a four day period. “Jasmine” comprises the material they liked best from these sessions. Emphasis is on standards and love songs, but the overall feel and atmosphere is perhaps closer to Jarrett’s solo “Melody At Night…” than anything else in his discography. Intimate, then, and deeply melodic.”

Update (March 23, 2010). More information about “Jasmine” from Jazzwise Magazine: “The eight tracks are mostly love songs from the standards book, though one notable surprise comes in the form of ‘One Day I’ll Fly Away’, as made famous by Randy Crawford.”

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Keith Jarrett plays with Gus Nemeth (bass) and Aldo Romano (drums). As far as I know, this is the only video of this group ever released.

“Tous en scène” was produced by Pierre Desfons, Claude Ventura, Robert Bober, and Maurice Dugowson. For more information about this TV show, check out this blog post (in French).

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• Keith Jarrett: Heartache spoken here (Times Online, September 25, 2009)
• A Visit With Keith Jarrett (and a Musical Treat) (The Atlantic, September 27, 2009)
• Keith Jarrett: Testament – Paris / London (All About Jazz, September 29, 2009)
• Keith Jarrett, «Testament» d’un génie (Tribune de Genève, October 3, 2009, in French)
• When your lover has gone (Keith Jarrett CDs reviewed) (Ottawa Citizen, October 8, 2009)
• Keith Jarrett, Part II: The Q&A (The Atlantic, October 13, 2009)
• Keith Jarrett – Paris/London Testament (Chroniques Electroniques, October 14, 2009, in French)
• Keith Jarrett’s Masterful Testament (Stereophile, October 14, 2009)
• Music Review: Keith Jarrett – Testament (Blogcritics, October 15, 2009)
• Seul face au son (Le Temps, October 17, 2009, in French)
• Testament – Paris / London (All About Jazz, October 25, 2009)
• Music Review: Keith Jarrett – Testament (We’re An American Blog, October 28, 2009)
• Keith Jarrett – Testament (JazzTimes, November 2009)
• Testament Speaks Volumes (suite101.com, November 7, 2009)
• Keith Jarrett: Testament: Paris/London (Jambands.com, November 30, 2009)

Some reviews of the October 2009 solo concerts in Europe:

• Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels (October 9, 2009)
  • Le roi Jarrett au Bozar (lesoir.be, October 10, 2009, in French)
  • Keith Jarrett personnifie la musique (lesoir.be, October 12, 2009, in French)
  • L’étreinte captivante de Keith Jarrett (La Libre Belgique, October 12, 2009, in French)
  • Bruxelles, 9 Ottobre 2009 – Keith Jarrett – Piano Solo (KeithJarrett.it, October 14, 2009, in Italian)
  • Keith Jarrett Solo Concert – Regards croisés (Pianomajeur.net, October 17, 2009, in French)
• Philharmonie, Berlin (October 12, 2009)
  • Keith kämpft gegen die deutsche Arroganz (Spiegel Online, October 13, 2009, in German)
  • Keith Jarrett nervt mit immer absurderen Allüren (Welt Online, October 13, 2009, in German)
  • Keith Jarrett ernst und einsam in Berlin (Berliner Morgenpost, October 14, 2009, in German)
  • Wackelkontakt zur Ewigkeit (Der Tagesspiegel, October 14, 2009, in German)
  • Das Solo-Konzert des Pianisten Keith Jarrett in Berlin (Nürnberger Nachrichten, October 14, 2009, in German)
  • Im magischen Dreieck (Zeit Online, October 15, 2009, in German)
  • Berlino 12 ottobre – Keith Jarrett (COSA, October 20, 2009, in Italian)
• Tonhalle, Zürich (October 16, 2009)
  • Le tour de l’ivoire (Le Temps, October 17, 2009, in French)
  • Keith Jarretts böses Genie führt zu Ausraster in Zürich (Berner Zeitung, October 19, 2009, in German)
  • Gesichter einer Persönlichkeit (NZZ Online, October 19, 2009, in German)
  • Jazz-Pianist Keith Jarrett hält in Zürich das Publikum in Atem (Südkurier, October 20, 2009, in German)

If you know of an interesting review not listed here, feel free to leave a message in the forum (see link below).

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"Paris / London: Testament" cover

Here’s the tracklist for “Paris / London: Testament” (from Universal Music Classical):

CD 1

1. Part I – Salle Pleyel, Paris (13:47)
2. Part II – Salle Pleyel, Paris (10:35)
3. Part III – Salle Pleyel, Paris (7:05)
4. Part IV – Salle Pleyel, Paris (5:33)
5. Part V – Salle Pleyel, Paris (8:45)
6. Part VI – Salle Pleyel, Paris (6:30)
7. Part VII – Salle Pleyel, Paris (6:58)
8. Part VIII – Salle Pleyel, Paris (10:10)

CD 2

1. Part I – Royal Festival Hall, London (11:08)
2. Part II – Royal Festival Hall, London (8:10)
3. Part III – Royal Festival Hall, London (6:50)
4. Part IV – Royal Festival Hall, London (5:58)
5. Part V – Royal Festival Hall, London (10:34)
6. Part VI – Royal Festival Hall, London (6:52)

CD 3

1. Part VII – Royal Festival Hall, London (8:59)
2. Part VIII – Royal Festival Hall, London (8:00)
3. Part IX – Royal Festival Hall, London (3:55)
4. Part X – Royal Festival Hall, London (5:35)
5. Part XI – Royal Festival Hall, London (8:25)
6. Part XII – Royal Festival Hall, London (8:29)

The encores (“Over the Rainbow”, “Time on My Hands”, etc.) will apparently not be included.

According to Universal Music Classical, “in his liner notes, Jarrett gives a highly personal account of the music’s inspirational genesis, which is outstanding, even by his own high standards, with powerful emotions never far from the music’s surface.”

The album will be released in early October 2009 (e.g. October 2 in Germany and October 6 in the US).

Update (September 10, 2009). You can listen to samples from each track on Amazon Germany.

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• Salle Pleyel, Paris (November 26, 2008)
• Royal Festival Hall, London (December 1, 2008)

Jacques adds that, according to an interview published in Jazzman in 2005, “Testament” is the name Keith Jarrett originally wanted to give to “Radiance”. It probably says something about the quality of the music on “Testament” (at least from Keith Jarrett’s point of view).

Update (July 29, 2009). Looks like the official release date is October 5, 2009 (according to the London concert “programme”).

Update (August 21, 2009). According to AllBlues and Amazon.de, the album should be released on October 2, 2009 in Switzerland and Germany (and probably other European countries).

Update (August 26, 2009). Amazon now has the cover artwork on their Web sites (UK, Germany, France, etc.). The number of discs (three!) is also confirmed.

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See also:

• More than 30 Keith Jarrett albums available on HDtracks

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• Yesterdays (All About Jazz, January 21)
• Keith Jarrett/Gary Peacock/Jack DeJohnette – Yesterdays (2009) (Something Else!, January 26)
• Keith Jarrett and his archetypal standards (Inside Story, February 5)
• ‘Yesterdays’ by Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette shows that these three make good company (DFW, February 12)
• Keith Jarrett Lives in the Past with Standards Trio (Culture Catch, February 20)
• Yesterdays (Allmusic)

And here are some reviews of the solo concert at the Carnegie Hall on January 29, 2009:

• A One-of-a-Kind Artist Prepares for His Solo (The Wall Street Journal, January 29)
• Keith Jarrett’s Awesome Night at Carnegie Hall (Stereophile, January 30)
• Keith Jarrett (David Marchese, January 30)
• Keith Jarrett at Carnegie Hall, 1/29/09 (Piano World Forums, January 31)
• On an incredible rendezvous with a master jazz musician (Irish Times, February 7)
• I love NY (KeithJarrett.it, February 21, in Italian)
• Keith Jarrett’s Return To Carnegie Hall (All About Jazz, February 22)

If you know of an interesting review not listed here, feel free to leave a message in the forum (see link below).

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See also these previous posts about “Yesterdays”:

• Keith Jarrett’s next album “Yesterdays” to be released in January 2009
• “Yesterdays” to be released on January 26, 2009
• “Yesterdays” cover and tracklist

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1. Strollin’
2. You Took Advantage of Me
3. Yesterdays
4. Shaw’nuff
5. You’ve Changed
6. Scrapple From the Apple
7. Sleepin’ Bee
8. Intro/Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
9. Stella By Starlight

See also these previous posts about “Yesterdays”:

• Keith Jarrett’s next album “Yesterdays” to be released in January 2009
• “Yesterdays” to be released on January 26, 2009

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“2001 was a vintage year for the Jarrett Trio, as three outstanding live albums – The Out-Of-Towners, Always Let Me Go and My Foolish Heart – have already shown. Yesterdays, recorded at Tokyo’s Metropolitan Festival Hall, is a fourth, with all-standards programme and a strong emphasis on bebop. It will be available in two versions: as single CD or double-LP with 180 gram vinyl – the first new vinyl release on ECM in 15 years.”

Thomas A. McGraw contacted Heino Frieberg at ECM Records. Here’s what Mr. Frieberg has to say about the lack of new releases in 2008:

“It’s right, this year we focused on re-issues and some DVD documentations for Jarrett. Who knows, to balance for that we may come up with a second new release of him later in 2009 …”

See also my previous post about “Yesterdays”.

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