Munich 2016
Keith Jarrett (piano)
Awards:
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Jazzwise, Editor's Choice, February 2020
From the opening ‘Part I’, a 16-minute storm of thundering polyrhythms and powerful cadences, the muse certainly seemed to have descended on Jarrett that evening. Each piece seems to flash by...
Munich 2016
Keith Jarrett (piano)
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Awards:
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Jazzwise, Editor's Choice, February 2020
From the opening ‘Part I’, a 16-minute storm of thundering polyrhythms and powerful cadences, the muse certainly seemed to have descended on Jarrett that evening. Each piece seems to flash by...
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A solo concert from Keith Jarrett - recorded at Munich’s Philharmonic Hall on July 16, 2016, on the last night of a European tour - finds the great improvising pianist at a peak of invention.
Creating a spontaneous suite of forms in the moment with the assurance of a master builder - interspersing touches of the blues and folksong lyricism between pieces of polyrhythmic and harmonic complexity - he delivers one of his very finest performances. An attentive and appreciative audience hangs on every note, every nuance, and is rewarded with some tender encores including a magical version of “It’s a Lonesome Old Town”.
There is, still, nothing else like a Keith Jarrett solo concert. “Through a series of brilliant solo performances and recordings that demonstrate his utterly spontaneous creativity,” the Polar Music Prize committee noted a few years ago, “Keith Jarrett has simultaneously lifted piano improvisation as an art form to new, unimaginable heights.”
Contents and tracklist
- Keith Jarrett (piano)
- Recorded: 2016-07-16
- Recording Venue: Gasteig Philharmonie, Munich
- Keith Jarrett (piano)
- Recorded: 2016-07-16
- Recording Venue: Gasteig Philharmonie, Munich
- Keith Jarrett (piano)
- Recorded: 2016-07-16
- Recording Venue: Gasteig Philharmonie, Munich
- Keith Jarrett (piano)
- Recorded: 2016-07-16
- Recording Venue: Gasteig Philharmonie, Munich
- Keith Jarrett (piano)
- Recorded: 2016-07-16
- Recording Venue: Gasteig Philharmonie, Munich
- Keith Jarrett (piano)
- Recorded: 2016-07-16
- Recording Venue: Gasteig Philharmonie, Munich
- Keith Jarrett (piano)
- Recorded: 2016-07-16
- Recording Venue: Gasteig Philharmonie, Munich
- Keith Jarrett (piano)
- Recorded: 2016-07-16
- Recording Venue: Gasteig Philharmonie, Munich
- Keith Jarrett (piano)
- Recorded: 2016-07-16
- Recording Venue: Gasteig Philharmonie, Munich
- Keith Jarrett (piano)
- Recorded: 2016-07-16
- Recording Venue: Gasteig Philharmonie, Munich
- Keith Jarrett (piano)
- Recorded: 2016-07-16
- Recording Venue: Gasteig Philharmonie, Munich
- Keith Jarrett (piano)
- Recorded: 2016-07-16
- Recording Venue: Gasteig Philharmonie, Munich
- Keith Jarrett (piano)
- Recorded: 2016-07-16
- Recording Venue: Gasteig Philharmonie, Munich
- Keith Jarrett (piano)
- Recorded: 2016-07-16
- Recording Venue: Gasteig Philharmonie, Munich
- Keith Jarrett (piano)
- Recorded: 2016-07-16
- Recording Venue: Gasteig Philharmonie, Munich
Awards and reviews
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JazzwiseEditor's ChoiceFebruary 2020
February 2020
From the opening ‘Part I’, a 16-minute storm of thundering polyrhythms and powerful cadences, the muse certainly seemed to have descended on Jarrett that evening. Each piece seems to flash by brimming with allusions – 20th century European composers, Shostakovich (a favourite) and maybe Hindemith?
Feburary 2020
With Munich 2016, the overall pattern in his spontaneous composing is easy to spot: Featuring free-form exposition, tension between segments, skipping along through breezy arpeggios,riffing on dark, sharp-edged chords, vamping on cool blues and soothing with warm harmonizations.