Keith Jarrett – Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Keith Jarrett – Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:25:09 minutes | 1,30 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM New Series

Keith Jarrett’s account of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s Wrttemberg Sonatas is a revelation. “I’d heard the sonatas played by harpsichordists, and felt there was room for a piano version,” says Jarrett today. This outstanding recording, made in 1994 and previously unreleased, finds the pianist attuned to the expressive implications of the sonatas in every moment. Recorded at Keith Jarrett’s Cavelight Studio in May 1994, the album includes liner notes by Paul Griffiths. 2 CD.

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Keith Jarrett – The Koln Concert (1975/2017) DSF DSD64

Keith Jarrett – The Koln Concert (1975/2017)
DSF Stereo DSD64, 1 bit/2,82 MHz | Time – 01:06:19 minutes | 2,61 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: e-Onkyo | Booklet, Front Cover | © ECM Records

On Friday, January 24, 1975, legendary composer, pianist, soprano saxophonist and bandleader Keith Jarrett gave his famous, freely improvised solo concert at the Köln Opera House in Germany on a Bösendorfer baby grand. The captivating four-part set clocked in at 67 minutes and has since become the bestselling solo piano and jazz solo record of all time.

“Again and again it’s like stepping onstage naked. The most important thing in a solo concert is the first note I play, or the first four notes. If they have enough tension, the rest of the concert follows almost as a matter of course. Solo concerts are about the most revealing psychological self-analysis imaginable.” –Keith Jarrett

“From the glistening, patiently developed opening melody, through sustained passages of roaring riffs and folksy, country-song exuberance, the pianist is utterly inside his ongoing vision of the performance’s developing shape – a fusion of the freshness of an improvisation with the symmetries of a composition that’s central to the album’s communicative power.” –John Fordham, The Guardian / 50 Great Moments in Jazz

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Keith Jarrett – Death And The Flower (1975/2011) DSF DSD64

Keith Jarrett – Death And The Flower (1975/2011)
DSF Stereo DSD64/2.82MHz | Time – 00:41:59 minutes | 1,66 GB | Genre: Jazz
Source: ISO SHM-SACD | © Impulse! | Universal Music Japan

Death and the Flower is the third album on the Impulse label by jazz pianist Keith Jarrett. Originally released in 1975, it features performances by Jarrett’s ‘American Quartet’ which included Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden and Paul Motian with Guilherme Franco added on percussion.

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Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, Jack DeJohnette – Standards, Vol. 2 (1983/2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, Jack DeJohnette – Standards, Vol. 2 (1983/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 45:17 minutes | 1,60 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM

Standards is a two-volume set of jazz albums released by the Keith Jarrett trio in 1983. Originally released by ECM, they have been multiply re-issued, including by Universal/Polygram. The two volumes present performances of pianist Keith Jarrett with Gary Peacock on bass and Jack DeJohnette on drums. Vol. 1 reached #14 on the Billboard Jazz Albums charts. In 2008 the two albums, along with 1983’s Changes, were collected into a boxed set, Setting Standards: New York Sessions.

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Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, Jack DeJohnette – Standards, Vol. 1 (1983/2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, Jack DeJohnette – Standards, Vol. 1 (1983/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 45:41 minutes | 1,59 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM

Standards is a two-volume set of jazz albums released by the Keith Jarrett trio in 1983. Originally released by ECM, they have been multiply re-issued, including by Universal/Polygram. The two volumes present performances of pianist Keith Jarrett with Gary Peacock on bass and Jack DeJohnette on drums. Vol. 1 reached #14 on the Billboard Jazz Albums charts. In 2008 the two albums, along with 1983’s Changes, were collected into a boxed set, Setting Standards: New York Sessions.

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Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, Jack DeJohnette – Changes (1984/2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, Jack DeJohnette – Changes (1984/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 37:34 minutes | 1,31 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM

Changes is a jazz album released by Keith Jarrett, Jack DeJohnette and Gary Peacock in 1984. This group subsequently became known as the “Standards Trio”. The album features improvised compositions recorded at the same sessions as the two volumes released as Standards. In 2008 the three albums were collected into a boxed set, Setting Standards: New York Sessions.

The trio originally worked together on a 1977 album headline by Peacock, Tales of Another, coming back together in 1983 when producer Manfred Eicher proposed a trio album to Jarrett. The three joined in a studio in Manhattan, New York for a 1½ day session during which they recorded enough material for three albums, the two Standards volumes and Changes without rehearsing or pre-planning the playlist.

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Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock & Jack DeJohnete – After The Fall (Live) (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock & Jack DeJohnete – After The Fall (Live) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:45:45 minutes | 1,01 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM

“Another live album from Jarrett’s trio?” It’s hard not to let out a little yelp as the Allentown pianist continues his apparently-infinite discographic march, aided by drummer Jack DeJohnette and bassist Gary Peacock. But after listening to the first-ever release of this concert from 14 November 1998 at Newark’s New Jersey Performing Arts Center, you might start to see where producer Manfred Eicher was coming from when he decided to bring this one out. Keith Jarrett even said himself: “I was amazed to hear how well the music worked. For me, it’s not only a historical document, but a truly great concert.”

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Keith Jarrett, Charlie Haden & Paul Motian – Hamburg ’72 (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Keith Jarrett, Charlie Haden & Paul Motian – Hamburg ’72 (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:24 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM

The Keith Jarrett Trio, playing live at NDR Funkhaus, Hamburg in July 1972. The trio with Haden and Motian was Jarrett’s first great band, his choice of players a masterstroke. Charlie and Paul hadn’t worked together until Jarrett brought them into each other’s orbit in 1966. With the bassist who had learned his craft in Ornette Coleman’s band, and the drummer from Bill Evans’s ground-breaking trio, Jarrett was able to explore the broadest scope of modern jazz, from poetic balladry to hard-swinging time-playing to ferocious and fiery free music. The improvisation heard in the Hamburg concert includes episodes with Keith on soprano sax and flute as well as piano, while Motian expands the role of percussion in the music, developing the supple, elastic, supremely unpredictable vocabulary that would subsequently become such a crucial part of both Jarrett’s groups and Paul’s own.

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Michelle Makarski, Keith Jarrett – Johann Sebastian Bach: Six Sonatas for Violin and Piano (2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Michelle Makarski, Keith Jarrett – Johann Sebastian Bach: Six Sonatas for Violin and Piano (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:34:06 minutes | 846 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM New Series

Michelle Makarski and Keith Jarrett met when Makarski was recording Jarrett’s album Bridge of Light. A musical friendship was formed, and the two decided to get together to play these Bach sonatas just for fun. Later on, they decided to record the pieces, which took place in November 2010 at the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York.

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Keith Jarrett & Charlie Haden – Last Dance (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Keith Jarrett & Charlie Haden – Last Dance (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:05 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM

Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden broaden the scope of their duo project to showcase jazz classics like Thelonious Monk’s “Round Midnight” and Bud Powell’s spritely “Dance Of The Infidels”. Love songs, however, are to the fore in this selection, with tender versions of “My Old Flame”, “My Ship”, “It Might As Well Be Spring”, “Everything Happens To Me”, and “Every Time We Say Goodbye” as well as alternate takes of “Where Can I Go Without You” and “Goodbye”, every bit as touching as the Jasmine renditions. “When we play together it’s like two people singing”, said Jarrett of his reunion with Haden. The intentions of the song are honored, the shades of meaning in a melody or a lyric explored instrumentally. As Charlie Haden put it, “Keith really listens, and I listen. That’s the secret. It’s about listening”.

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Keith Jarrett – The Survivors’ Suite (1977/2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Keith Jarrett – The Survivors’ Suite (1977/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 48:40 minutes | 1,70 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM

A quick perusal of the personnel and mechanics of this album is practically all one needs to get an idea of the tonal colors and moods with which its imagery is composed. The Survivors’ Suite finds Jarrett in a multi-instrumental role along with the all-star cast that makes up his American Quartet. The sheer synergy of the playing truly makes this music shimmer. For this reason, I hesitate to single out particular solos and motifs. Suffice it to say each member has his moment of glory in the concisely knit fabric of the album’s 49-minute duration.

The music shifts dramatically from soulful dirges to upbeat thematic variations in a vibrant flow of ideas. A sense of control reigns. One never feels lost while listening (or is, in fact, lost but doesn’t care), for the surroundings are so resplendent with life. This is a supremely evocative experience and the similarity of associations it has inspired in so many listeners is striking to say the least (peruse a few other reviews, and you’ll see what I mean). The Survivors’ Suite reaches beyond jazz, even if firmly rooted in jazz’s soil. Its sound is vast yet intimate, breathing with the sheer life force of its music-makers. There is a marked difference between its two sections, simply titled “Beginning” and “Conclusion.” They are not polar opposites and are more than complementary. They walk the same trails, perhaps pointing out different sights along the way, all the while knowing they will soon meet again. Where the former is timid yet progressive, the latter is democratic and viscous.

This is, without a doubt, a high point among Jarrett’s many ECM outings. It is expertly recorded (as evidenced by its superb balance of warmth and coolness), fluidly played, and widely cherished, as I am sure it will continue to be for decades to come. –ecmreviews.com

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Keith Jarrett – The Koln Concert (1975/2010) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Keith Jarrett – The Koln Concert (1975/2010)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:29 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM

The most successful solo jazz album of all time, THE KOLN CONCERT is an awe-inspiring work of improvisation and invention. Consisting of four tracks that together comprise over an hour of music, the performance is an apt demonstration of Jarrett’s genius as a piano player and conceptualist. It features one of the greatest series of free improvisations ever caught on tape—endlessly imaginative and absolutely mesmerizing. Released for the first time in breathtaking 96kHz/24bit, the performance takes on an entirely new dimension—one that places you immediately before Jarrett’s phenomenal keyboard displays of virtuosity and gives additional resonance to every struck note. It was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2011.

The album is not so much masterpiece as masterwork: art as a process that forever remains in the present. “Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, Wall Street Journal

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Keith Jarrett – Sun Bear Concerts (1978/2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Keith Jarrett – Sun Bear Concerts (1978/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 06:41:59 minutes | 7,81 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM

Sun Bear Concerts is a multi-concert album compilation of solo piano performances by Keith Jarrett that took place during his November 1976 tour in Japan. It was originally released as a ten-LP set and then as a six-CD box set containing 5 concerts plus encores, totalling 6:37:46 of music (applause included).

The structures of the documented concerts follow a similar pattern: two very long non-stop improvisations (from 31 to 43 minutes approx) plus a possible encore. Accordingly, it was not until the 1989 CD release (ECM 1100, 843 028-2) that the full performances could be heard as a whole.

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Keith Jarrett – Standards Live (1986/2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Keith Jarrett – Standards Live (1986/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 54:24 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM

Standards Live is an album recorded by Keith Jarrett’s Standards Trio live in concert in Paris, in July 1985. It was published by ECM Records in 1986 and it became the first in a long series of live albums to be released by Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette as a unit.

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Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock & Jack DeJohnette – Somewhere (2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock & Jack DeJohnette – Somewhere (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:32 minutes | 1,38 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM

Now in its 30th year, the Keith Jarrett Trio is widely considered, as the NY Times recently remarked, to have set the gold standard for jazz groups, and this sparkling concert recording from 2009 is issued to mark a milestone anniversary. The Somewhere in which the Standards trio find themselves is Lucerne, Switzerland with a performance both exploratory and in-the-tradition. The Neue Zurcher Zeitung headlined its review of the show Kontrollierte Ekstase controlled ecstasy an apt metaphor for a set that begins in improvisational Deep Space modulates into Miles Davis Solar, soars through the standards Stars Fell On Alabama and Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea and climaxes with an extended romp through West Side Story, as Bernsteins Somewhere and Tonight are bridged by the freely associative Jarrett original Everywhere.

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