The 2014 National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters ceremony and concert will be streamed live on January 13, 2014 at 7:30 PM EST on Livestream.
See arts.gov and Classicalite for more information.
Thanks to Francesco for the information!
Keith Jarrett will play a solo concert at Carnegie Hall, New York on February 5, 2014.
Tickets are already available from carnegiehall.org.
Thanks to Sean, Brett, and Phil for the information!
After “Hymns/Spheres” (January 2013) and “Concerts: Bregenz / München” (November 2013), ECM will finally re-release “Ritual” on CD in January 2014 (January 24 in Germany, January 27 in the UK).
Ritual
Some information about the album from AllMusic:
“Keith Jarrett does not actually play on this LP; rather, it is Dennis Russell Davies, a classical pianist and conductor with whom Jarrett collaborates frequently, who performs this 32-minute Jarrett composition on a grand piano. Ritual has several of the characteristics of Jarrett’s solo improvisations — the repetitive vamps and ostinatos, wistful lyricism, ruminative episodes developing organically out of what preceded them — but without the jazzy/bluesy feeling that runs through the solo concerts.”
Thanks to Arnulf and Matthias for the information.
2013 is an exciting year for Keith Jarrett fans. ECM Records has already released / re-released three Keith Jarrett albums (“Hymns/Spheres”, “Somewhere”, and “Bach: Six Sonatas for Violin and Piano”), and will soon release “No End” and re-release “Concerts: Bregenz / München”, in November. That’s 10 CDs worth of music!
Vic Olsen – “Keith Jarrett: Bregenz Concert / Franz Liszt: Sonata in B minor”
If that’s still not enough for you, CVM Records is releasing a recording of the Bregenz concert by pianist Vic Olsen. Here’s an excerpt from the press release:
For the first time in music recording history, an improvised concert by the renowned pianist Keith Jarrett has been recorded in a studio by another performer.
The Bregenz Concert was improvised by Keith Jarrett on May 28, 1981 in Austria. In a widely acclaimed biography titled The Man and His Music, Ian Carr wrote, “The Bregenz/Munich concerts were Jarrett’s most brilliant live solo recordings to date; his level of inspiration is quite extraordinary, and the music covers a wider musical and emotional range than ever. He takes fabulous risks, pushing everything to the limit.” A good many critics would agree.
Pianist Vic Olsen has dared to confront the perilous challenge of replaying this vast fresco — and what a job he has done! He brings to life the lyricism, expressive power and polyphonic rapture of this essential and yet unclassifiable music as superbly as when it was first performed. What we are listening to isn’t Keith Jarrett, but it is a celestial, Jarrett-like voice that can be heard throughout Olsen’s outstanding, masterly rendition.
More information can be found on cvm-records.com.
According to Nice Matin, Keith Jarrett will not play in Juan-les-Pins in 2014:
On sait déjà qu’il se fera sans le pianiste Keith Jarrett, dont la prestation l’an dernier a déçu l’organisateur et le public.
« Ce n’est pas un départ définitif,souligne Jean-René Palacio. Mais je pense qu’il faut souffler au moins un an ». Avec ses deux complices, Jack DeJohnette et Gary Peacock, Jarrett venait de fêter les 30 ans de son trio… et leur 22e saison consécutive dans la pinède Gould !
To my knowledge, this will be the first time since 1999 that Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, and Jack DeJohnette will not play at the Jazz in Juan festival.
Thanks to Håvard for the link.
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