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JARRETT TRIO HAS A LONG HISTORY OF JAZZ GREATNESS
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Attaching the term "the greatest" to any artist is dangerous
territory. Tastes vary, after all. One person may consider Miles
Davis the greatest jazz trumpeter of all time, but someone else may
favor Louis Armstrong. And who's to say, for instance, who's the
greatest pianist in jazz? The most acclaimed - Erroll Garner, Art
Tatum, Thelonious Monk, Bill Evans, to name just four candidates -
played in such different styles that it's impossible to compare them.
But there really is no deba...
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JARRETT TRIO HAS A LONG HISTORY OF JAZZ GREATNESS
The Boston Globe
; Attaching the term "the greatest" to any artist is dangerous territory. Tastes vary, after all. One person may consider Miles Davis the greatest jazz trumpeter of all time, but someone else may favor Louis Armstrong. And who's to say, for instance, who's the greatest pianist in jazz? The most
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Arts: The last jazz soloist On the eve of his first UK concerts in eight years, Keith Jarrett speaks to Phil Johnson about the decline in individual musical achievement
The Independent - London
; The American pianist Keith Jarrett, who plays his first London concerts for eight years at the Royal Festival Hall next Wednesday and Friday, occupies a unique position in the world of contemporary jazz. That tickets to see him will cost as much as pounds 50 is remarkable enough; that the concerts
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The curious case of Pennsylvania's own Keith Jarrett
Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA
; Keith Jarrett, child prodigy and genius of the keyboard, was born on VE-Day in Allentown, and by his 21st birthday had already participated in his first major recording session, "Buttercorn Lady" with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. In "The Man and the Music," Jarrett's biographer, Ian Carr, noted
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An Unamplified Salute to Keith Jarrett; Tribute CD to This Eclectic Musician Sets Its Sights Low--and Hits the Mark
The Washington Post
; A full-fledged musical tribute to Keith Jarrett has been a long time coming, but understandably so. How exactly do you approach one of the most accomplished, eclectic and prolific musician-composers that jazz--or should that be 20th-century music--has known? Getting a handle on this musical
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Vocalist Dianne Reeves and Pianist Keith Jarrett to perform at Symphony Center
Chicago Defender
; Defender Staff Report Symphony Center will be ablaze this weekend as two jazz greats prepare to do what they do best: dazzle the audience. Grammy-award winning Dianne Reeves is scheduled to perform at Jazz at the Symphony Center Friday at 8 p.m. Her performance will be followed Saturday by
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Struggling with Jazz
Current Musicology
; Struggling with Jazz As a musicologist, I'm accustomed to forming opinions that nobody in particular wants to hear. So when Ken Burns's mega-documentary Jazz first aired on PBS in January 2001, it was an interesting time to be an academic specialist in jazz. Suddenly everyone, from close friends to
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Vernon Jarrett
The New Crisis
; ... Press. Jarrett now writes for The New York Times' New American News Syndicate, and he still is considered one of the nation's great ... Broadcasting Corp. He also has appeared on virtually all the network news shows. Jarrett is a former visiting professor of history at Northwestern ...
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For pianist, jazz improvisation means a mostly solitary existence. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; For all its collective fury, jazz improvisation is a lonely art. The musicians learn their language away from an audience, and development is difficult to gauge. Feedback from fellow musicians, critics and fans is unreliable, and the more objective measures _ sales figures _ don't reflect the state
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 "Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)")
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A gift restored; Pianist Keith Jarrett, once sidelined by chronic fatigue syndrome, walks the comeback trail with a new sound and sensibility.(ENTERTAINMENT)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
; Byline: Michael Anthony; Staff Writer RSEC: + In the fall of 1996 during a series of concerts in Italy, pianist Keith Jarrett found himself, as he put it, completely drained of energy. It was as if aliens had invaded my body, he said to his wife, Rose Anne. He managed to finish the tour, then
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 "Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)")
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Jarrett still delivers his own special music.
Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
; Byline: Howard Reich CHICAGO _ It would be difficult to overestimate Keith Jarrett's influence on jazz pianism since the 1970s, with young keyboardists around the world spellbound by his free-flowing melody lines and mercurial improvisational style. Without Jarrett, would Havana have produced a
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