I have just discovered Keith Jarrett. The Koln Concert is fantastic and has hardly left the CDP. The man is certainly prolific, can anyone help with recommendations of which recordings to go for next? Thanks.

Try The Cure, another live album on ECM, my personal favourite Jarrett.

Kevin

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Originally posted by ccr:
I have just discovered Keith Jarrett. The Koln Concert is fantastic and has hardly left the CDP. The man is certainly prolific, can anyone help with recommendations of which recordings to go for next? Thanks.

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K Jarrett is not only prolific but ecclectic too. Broadly speaking he has recordings of mainstream jazz, more experimental jazz, solo piano jazz, solo piano improvised concerts (like the one that you have) , classical music recordings and fusion music!

If you liked Kolhn you will love 'La Scala' a totaly improvised live recorded concert at the famus theatre in Milan. The music is ever so slightly more avant guard than the Kolhn concert.

Moving away from solo piano one my favourites is Arbour Zena. A fusion of classical (string) with jazz. Fantastic (slightly abstract at times) music highly recommended for listening again and again, discovering something new every time.

Finally an idea is to buy the double cd from ECM 'rarum selected recordings', a compilation of his works selected by the man him self, a very good starting point offering exposure to nearly all the different styles and instruments that Jarrett is so good at.

Enjoy and please let us know what you liked.

alex

You must try his Keith Jarrett Trio recordings with Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette. Improvising around standards (Every Time We Say Goodbye, When I Fall In Love etc) with stunning effect.
I recommend Still Live and Standards Live

Cheers

Rich

With Keith Jarrett there are so many ways to go. Here are a few recommendations, all of which I consider essential:

Facing You - his first solo album, and one of the greatest albums of any kind of music of all time

Solo Concerts (Bremen-Lausanne) - if you dig Koln, you'll dig this, too ... maybe even more so

Belonging - first album of Jarrett's European Quartet with Jan Garbarek, Palle Danielsson, Jon Christensen

Personal Mountains - live recording of European Quartet

There are many others, but I'd start with these.

Can I also add to your list
Dark Intervals,
and my all time favourite, Spheres: on this piece he improvises on a 18th century baroque organ and achieves, mind blowing sounds by only pulling some of the stops out partway.Well worth seeking out.
oldie.

I recommend "The Melody at Night, With You". My second fave behind Koln Concert.

When you get tired of Köln concert (it will take at least 2 years or so), you can listen to Vienna concert - it is as good as Köln but in another way.

And I would also recommend Belonging as fred simon did.

I like almost everything Jarrett has ever recorded, and the stuff I don't like I guess I havn't given enough time.

I recommend

Personal Mountains - awesome live recording with European Quartet - the track Innocence is wonderful.

My Song - European Quartet

My favourite standards trio is Tribute - excellent live double closely followed by Whisper Not (I was at this show).

Cheers
Adrian

See, that's the thing about Jarrett ... so many wonderful albums I could have recommended forty instead of four.

I absolutely agree with some of the other suggestions here like The Melody at Night, With You, My Song, La Scala, Arbour Zena, Dark Intervals, to which I'd add Nude Ants (European Quartet), Sun Bear Concerts, and pretty much all the trio sides with DeJohnette and Peacock.

Then there's his classical work such as the Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues, the Bach Flute Sonatas (with Michala Petri on recorder), and the Handel keyboard suites.

Also, his work with other artists, in particular Gnu High, an absolutely essential album under Kenny Wheeler's name (composer, flügelhorn) with DeJohnette and Dave Holland, as well as Tales of Another, an album with his current trio before it was his regular trio, but released under Gary Peacock's name (who composed the tunes).

But I'm somewhat surprised that no one has mentioned Jarrett's equally wonderful work with his American Quartet: Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden, Paul Motian. I saw the recent BBC documentary on Jarrett by Mike Dibb, which I loved, and my favorite segments were those with the American Quartet and the European Quartet ... incredibly beautiful, inspiring, soulful.

As with the European Quartet, you can't go wrong with any of the American Quartet albums, but I'd particularly suggest:

Fort Yawuh

Death and the Flower

Mysteries

The Survivors' Suite

I think this is my 100th post!

I would strongly recommend The Cure but I so wish he'd stop grunting!

Regards,
CB

I like Celestial Hawk and would second The Survivor's Suite. This one features KJ on Soprano Sax and other instruments.

Anthony

One of my favorites from among the "trio" stuff is "At The Deerhead Inn". It has Paul Motian on drums in place of Jack DeJohnette. Quite a different feel from the other trio albums.