Inquiring minds wanna know already.
Dale
The man can play a bit - no doubt about it.
Slan,
D.
Who he be?
Dale, you almost have twenty hundred posts!
right now he has 1978…as my dear father would say, “That was a good year”. 
oh, and I’m wondering who he is too…sorry, forgot to add that, and I didn’t feel like editing 
When I was a young kid, and playing the piano 100% of the time, Kieth Jarrett was among the many pianists I’d listen to. Mighty musician.
He’s been through quite a journey.
Worth a listen:
http://freshair.npr.org/day_fa.jhtml?display=day&todayDate=02/27/2001
Best wishes,
Jerry
Yes.
brilliant musician and a real pioneer… i remember reading an interview with Jarrett in the late lamented Musician Player & Listener magazine (that should date me pretty well)… among other things, he was pretty peeved about George Winston exploiting Jarrett’s solo improv format and raking in money off of it. Accompanying the interview was a photo of Jarrett in performance, standing at the piano keyboard, back arched, face contorted with ecstasy… the caption read “hey, can George Winston do THIS???”.
(don’t ask why i thought of this story, i couldn’t tell you…) 
I have to admit, his is the only concert during which I ever fell asleep. I was never crazy about him, but did like some things about his music, so I paid the money and went to see him. It seemed to me that there was very little life in the players. It was around 1978, about 5-8 band members.
I saw McCoy Tyner a year or two earlier. Now, that’s a guy who could play a piano. He did a solo set that was WAY better than anything on Jarrett’s Solo Concerts records. Plus, he played a dulcimer.
I haven’t heard any of the baroque stuff he’s recorded. I’d be curious to hear it.
Yes. Particularly liked The Celestial Hawk and Invocations; also his work with Chick Corea and Gary Burton.
an amazing pianist. 
I always thought his loud moaning while playing was a bit contrived…on the one hand you could argue that he was so emotionally absorbed in his music that he couldn’t help it, but I wonder whether he cultivated it as part of his performance. Other great musicians can get totally lost in their music without doing gymnastics at the keyboard or letting out orgasmic groans.
That said, I’ve been listening a lot lately to a classic early 1960s recording of Sean Ryan (the fiddler and composer, not the whistle player) and PJ Maloney (flute), and when you listen through headphones you can hear a few soft moans here and there from Ryan as he’s playing. But it’s clear that those were inadvertent grunts of pleasure; with Jarrett they’re practically screams of ecstacy and they just seem a bit too over the top to be entirely genuine, it feels like part of an act, and that spoils the listening experience for me. Not as bad as Tori Amos, mind you, but it still puts me off.
Why does Tori Amos put you off?
In his generation, the pianists I really like are Andrew Hill, McCoy Tyner and Herbie Hancock. I’ve listened to Jarrett and admire his technique but I’ve never got past first impressions which were pretty negative. I first heard him on the Charles Lloyd album Forest Flower which was something of a hippy favourite in it’s day. I thought it was grotesquely self indulgent at the time and I still find it unlistenable. Lloyd played earlier with Gabor Szabo both in the Chico Hamilton group and later in his own band. They made some superb records, especially Passin’ Thru’, and an earlier shorter version of Forest Flower is very focused and impressive.
I’ve tried listening to the solo Jarrett but the impression of self indulgence remains.
good score amar! that’s just what i was thinking of!
Because she’s basically having sex with her piano. I enjoyed listening to her on the radio when her first CD came out, but then I saw her in performance (on TV) and it totally turned me off. Her acting destroyed her music for me, because it was so clearly a “performance” and it distracted attention from the music itself.
I saw Kieth Jarrett perform on television and had the same impression: frenetic, overly dramatic performance, though amazingly talented. That was my only exposure 'til I listened to the interview I posted above.
Jarrett became sick with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and was unable to play at all for two years. He found he couldn’t even listen to music for much of that time.
When he began listening to his own recordings again, he heard things he didn’t like and completely retooled his style. (There are some samples of his more recent work in the interview.) The illness forced him to develop a less flamboyant, more economical, more meditative style.
I’m curious to know whether anyone has listened to stuff he’s recorded since he returned from his illness and what your impressions are of his more recent work.
Best wishes,
Jerry
…I’ve only got one album of Keith Jarrett: “Keith Jarrett at the Blue Note - June 4th, 1994” Really good album. Joining Keith on the recording are Gary Peacock (double-bass), and Jack DeJohnette (drums). Since I’m not familiar with any of Keith’s other albums, I’m not certain on how to compare this album with any of his other works.
i recently relistened to jarrett’s "expectations"after 30 years and arrived at the same conclusion. but perhaps this is music to be heard live rather than recorded. he is of course a fabulous musician.