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François Mardirossian announces album and Köln Concert performances

French pianist François Mardirossian will release a new album featuring interpretations of Keith Jarrett’s compositions, including “Ritual,” three encores, and the “Fughata for Harpsichord.” The release comes alongside a series of performances where Mardirossian will present his interpretation of the legendary Köln Concert.

L’hommage de François Mardirossian au compositeur Keith Jarrett ! En 2025, le pianiste légendaire Keith Jarrett va célébrer ses 80 ans. François Mardirossian, admirateur passionné du pianiste, a trouvé la partition d’une pièce composée par Jarrett une année avant le fameux concert de Cologne en 1975 : c’est Ritual ! Pour célébrer cet anniversaire, Mardirossian a créé un programme consacré aux compositions du pianiste légendaire, fait de cette pièce Ritual, d’une fugue et de trois pièces majeures, également compositions de Jarrett, qui sont des bis de concert. Un hommage unique de François Mardirossian à l’un des pianistes les plus importants du XXème siècle et de l’histoire du Jazz

The album will be available in February 2025.

"Ritual et encores" cover

The pianist will perform the complete Köln Concert at three venues across France in January 2025:

More information about the artist can be found at francoismardirossian.com.

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Bill Goodwin on recording Keith Jarrett at the Deer Head Inn

Paul Wilkinson published a conversation with Bill Goodwin, who produced the two Deer Head Inn albums (At the Deer Head Inn and The Old Country). They talk about how Goodwin organized the recording of the Deer Head Inn performance (with rather basic equipment, surprisingly), how Goodwin first met Keith Jarrett in the 60s, and much more.

A Complete Live at The Deer Head Inn vinyl box set should be released by ECM in the near future, apparently.

Thanks to Paul for the link.

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“The Old Country (More From The Deer Head Inn)” to be released on November 8, 2024

ECM will release more tracks from the September 16, 1992 performance at the Deer Head Inn with Gary Peacock and Paul Motian. The album should be released on November 8, 2024 according to a listing on jpc.de.

At the Deer Head Inn was released in April 1994 by ECM and contained seven tracks from the same performance.

Tracklist:

  1. Everything I Love (8:11)
  2. I Fall In Love Too Easily (9:54)
  3. Straight No Chaser (8:51)
  4. All of You (9:46)
  5. Someday My Prince Will Come (6:56)
  6. The Old Country (12:54)
  7. Golden Earrings (8:25)
  8. How Long Has This Been Going On (8:32)

Thanks to Matthias for the information.

Update (October 1, 2024). An excerpt from the album, “Straight No Chaser”, is available on streaming platforms, e.g. YouTube. Thanks to John for the link.

Update (October 9, 2024). Track durations added.

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“Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Cembalosonaten Wq.49 Nr.1-6 ‘Württembergische'” to be released on June 30, 2023

A recording of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s Wurttemberg sonatas by Keith Jarrett will be released by ECM in June 2023.

Keith Jarrett’s account of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s Wurttemberg 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.

The younger Bach’s idiosyncrasies: the gentle playfulness of the music, the fondness for subtle and sudden tempo shifts, the extraordinary, rippling invention…all of this is wonderfully delivered.

The fluidity of the whole performance has a quality that perhaps could be conveyed only by an artist of great improvisational skills.

In Jarrett’s hands, CPE’s exploration of new compositional forms retains the freshness of discovery.

Recorded at Keith Jarrett’s Cavelight Studio in May 1994, the album includes liner notes by Paul Griffiths.

“Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Cembalosonaten Wq.49 Nr.1-6 ‘Württembergische'” cover
“Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Cembalosonaten Wq.49 Nr.1-6 ‘Württembergische’” cover

The tracklist is as follows:

CD 1

  1. I. Moderato (Sonata No. 1 in A Minor, H. 30) (7:33)
  2. II. Andante (Sonata No. 1 in A Minor, H. 30) (3:15)
  3. III. Allegro assai (Sonata No. 1 in A Minor, H. 30) (5:29)
  4. I. Un poco allegro (Sonata No. 2 in A-Flat Major, H. 31) (6:52)
  5. II. Adagio (Sonata No. 2 in A-Flat Major, H. 31) (3:08)
  6. III. Allegro (Sonata No. 2 in A-Flat Major, H. 31) (3:51)
  7. I. Allegro (Sonata No. 3 in E Minor, H. 33) (6:02)
  8. II. Adagio (Sonata No. 3 in E Minor, H. 33) (3:16)
  9. III. Vivace (Sonata No. 3 in E Minor, H. 33) (2:59)

CD 2

  1. I. Un poco allegro (Sonata No. 4 in B-Flat Major, H. 32) (5:47)
  2. II. Andante (Sonata No. 4 in B-Flat Major, H. 32) (3:01)
  3. III. Allegro (Sonata No. 4 in B-Flat Major, H. 32) (4:30)
  4. I. Allegro (Sonata No. 5 in E-Flat Major, H. 34) (7:42)v
  5. II. Adagio (Sonata No. 5 in E-Flat Major, H. 34) (3:21)v
  6. III. Allegro assai (Sonata No. 5 in E-Flat Major, H. 34) (3:32)
  7. I. Moderato (Sonata No. 6 in B Minor, H. 36) (7:02)
  8. II. Adagio non molto (Sonata No. 6 in B Minor, H. 36) (3:43)
  9. III. Allegro (Sonata No. 6 in B Minor, H. 36) (4:30)

Thanks to Matthias for the information.

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