As many news outlets have already reported, British jazz musician and writer Ian Carr died on February 25, 2009. He was the author of Keith Jarrett: The Man and His Music and also collaborated on the 2004 documentary Keith Jarrett: The Art of Improvisation, produced and directed by Mike Dibb. More information can be found on iancarrsnucleus.net.
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Join the forum discussion on this postYesterdays and Carnegie Hall solo concert reviews
Here is a selection of reviews of “Yesterdays”, by Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, and Jack DeJohnette, released in January 2009:
- 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).
Keith Jarrett Trio concerts in Los Angeles and Berkeley
ECM Records have added two Keith Jarrett Trio concerts to their Musicians on tour page:
- March 11, 2009: Royce Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles
- March 14, 2009: Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley, Berkeley
Tickets for the Los Angeles concert will go on sale on January 14 and will be available from UCLA Live.
Tickets for the Berkeley concert are apparently already available from Cal Performances.
More than 30 Keith Jarrett albums available on HDtracks
This is not really news, but I just realized that 34 Keith Jarrett albums (mostly from ECM Records) are officially available from HDtracks in FLAC or AIFF format (i.e. as lossless files). None of these albums are available in the “96 KHz / 24 bit” section of the store, unfortunately, but I’m not aware of any other store selling Keith Jarrett music as DRM-free lossless files.
“Yesterdays” sound samples
You can listen to sound samples from the forthcoming album “Yesterdays” on CD Universe. Samples are available for the nine tracks on the album.
See also these previous posts about “Yesterdays”:
