Talk:Keith Jarrett
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keith jarrett changed my life and my vision of music based on instant. he changed my vision of piano i'm pianist too
- this is a page not for fan discussion, sorry :-). if there no objections i will remove this. Julius.kusuma 23:57, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)
hahaha ;) nice. the guy confused the term "discussion". It's good to hear though to pianist saying that. He (and others) can check keithjarrett.org for scores.
the article could be better, for sure lacks his IMAGE. I search the net, found many, not sure about copyrights though. I saw the technic of Brad Mehldau's Article (site taken from his site), but I cannot find in an official site a Jarrett's Image. ECM's web site sucks big time on this.
Should the "La Scala" link to the theatre when the text is really referencing the album? Jtjones 02:59, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] Rearrangement
I've added some things this morning, and I've just moved chunks of the article around (separating the solo concerts from the two seventies quartets). I don't think the "Recent years" section is really necessary - I know the CFS-enforced retirement seemed like a big thing at the time and just after he returned, but looking at his career as a whole it's a minor blip, and Jarrett has made some of his strongest recordings since then, so it's probably best to add to the individual sections rather than having a "post-CFS" section. It needs mentioning, though, and I can't quite see where it should go. The "Other works" section really needs hacking into some sort of coherent shape, I don't know enough about his classical recordings to do those justice. --Andrew Norman 08:02, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
The biography in the program for the recent KJ Carnegie Hall concert plagiarized this article.
I don't understand this sentence:
"Davis invited Jarrett to join his group to play electric organ and (after Chick Corea left the group) electric piano, which he did for about a year, his respect for Davis and wish to work again with DeJohnette overcoming his distaste for amplified music and electric instruments."
--Erikyorke 16:11, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
- I've rewritten that paragraph. Julius.kusuma 19:20, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Expelled from Berklee?
There's an assertion in the Berklee College of Music article that Jarrett was kicked out of Berklee for "plucking piano strings". Sounds possible, I suppose, but I was curious enough to Google a bit for proof with no luck. Can anyone substantiate this? --Ds13 20:02, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
- I think you really need to be asking whoever put that assertion into the Berklee article. Unfortunately it was an anonymous edit[1]. I'm about to remove the claim. -- ajn (talk) 22:19, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
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- It's well known that Jarrett left Berklee "early" -- so I'm not sure if that makes him an alumnus at all as far as that list goes. At any rate, this reference and this one do refer to him being kicked out and/or leaving and the second one claims the piano strings story was Jarrett's own explanation. I was hoping someone here who has researched Jarrett more would have run across references as to why/how he left the school. --Ds13 00:05, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
The Ian Carr Biography on Keith Jarrett (Keith Jarrett - The Man and his Music) has Keith explaining in his own words what happened at Berklee:
"The administrator became worried Keith was starting to collect drop-outs* and began looking for a pretext to get rid of him. This came when Jarrett was having a session with someone in the school practice rooms, and he played a few things on the strings of the piano. (Robert) Share came bursting through the door, shouting, 'Out! Out!' Jarrett went..." Page 19 ch 'From Allentown to Berklee and Boston'
- This refers to the Berklee College drop-outs Jarrett was playing gigs with at the time
William Rodway
[edit] Eyes of the Heart
Is there any reason why this album is included as one of the American group's "noteworthy" albums? I thought the near-consensus was that it's one of their worst recordings.
Eyes of the heart is one of my favorites. But anyway, as this a matter of personal taste, I suggest there should be no subjective judgement at all in this article (applies to all Wikipedia articles, of course). --Georg Scholz 16:13, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Expansion
I've added detail throughout, expanded the album and musician lists and converted them to bullets, adding comments where appropriate. I also added some material on his work as a composer. Pretty much all of the albums should be listed here now, obviating the question of which are noteworthy. I'd like to see a bit more detail on the time with Davis, and a list of all the Blakey and Charles Lloyd albums on which Jarrett appears, as well as any other sideman dates. Also, I've never seen Jarrett perform classical works other than his own. Some eyewitness accounts would be nice. Does he play it completely straight? Does he wear the penguin suit?
Craigz 11:49, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Victory Day
is it actually relevant that Jarrett was born on 'Victory Day'? I could understand the inclusion of this fact maybe if he was European, but as he's American would this day have much significance to him or his life? quercus robur 10:43, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
- It is relevant, as a coincidence, to mention this fact, since the European/American theme tuns through Jarrett's career in a number of ways. It would not be if it was in the summary, rather than at the start of the main body of the article. Philip Cross 19:43, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
I feel that's a highly symbolic fact. I agree that it underlines the Euro/American crossover aspect of Jarrett's work, so it has a place in an extended treatment of his career. This crossopver thing also goes into his family background: though Keith is often seen as a "black" artist, he is in fact half white (I guess the word "mulatto" reeks too much of the slave age for some to use it?) Jarrett's mother Irma is/was of Norwegian/German descent while his father's black, so (like Chick Corea or Halle Berry) he is in fact just as much white as black. I'm not adding this to the article now however because it can be touchy to some and it needs a good, concise formulation.Strausszek 15:18, August 20, 2006 (CET)
[edit] Dewey Redman's passing and memorial broadcast
WKCR-FM will have a memorial broadcast on Labor Day, September 4, 2006 for Jarrett's saxophone collaborator, Dewey Redman. Dogru144 17:04, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] High school
I am trying to update high school affiliations for Allentown people. Does anyone know where he went to high school? PAWiki 18:07, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Criticism of Wynton Marsalis
Someone add in Keith's criticism of Wynton Marsalis.
