TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Keith Jarrett
Keith Jarrett
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
1.4943
Keith Jarrett Album Rankings
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Although I write about mostly modern electronic and indie and avant rock on this site, my musical interests have always included just about every musical genre.
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The Keith Jarrett American Quartet/Quintet of the 1970s was arguably his finest group, a post-bop unit featuring the pianist/leader, tenor saxophonistDewey Redman, bassistCharlie Haden, drummerPaul Mo
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3
Radiance is the most recent of Keith Jarrett's solo piano recitals to make it to disc. In many respects it is unique in this venerable line of concert recordings, and it establishes again that Mr.
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4
On Christopher Williams'sChanges, love is the sole theme, a magnificent obsession.
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5
Once Keith Jarrett gets into a concept, he likes to keep those tapes rolling.
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This features his ongoing European quartet with the icy sounds of saxophonist Jan Garbarek . Generally more restrained than his American combo, but wonderful at creating forlorn moods.
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8
The Keith Jarrett Standards Trio gets back down to business with two CDs' worth of familiar and perhaps not-so-familiar tunes, recorded in one evening in Cologne, Germany.
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9
Music of overwhelming beauty continues to flow from pianist Keith Jarrett's fingers in an undiminished torrent.
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12
The self-imposed quarantine on solo concerts over, Keith Jarrett returned to the improvisatory format that he virtually invented, mellower and more devotional than ever.
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15
This live solo piano concert at Tokyo's Suntory Hall is not a solo concert in the usual freewheeling Jarrett sense.
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17
It is very much out of character for the prolific Keith Jarrett and his producer Manfred Eicher to hold anything back, yet they've done it here, releasing these live tapes of Jarrett's European quart
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18
Paul Bley and Keith Jarrett are both keyboard wizards Bley, one of the earliest New Jazz players (his late-Fifties quintet featured Ornett Coleman and Don Cherry), is playing electric piano and synthe
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20
One of only a handful of Keith Jarrett "Standards" Trio records without a standard within earshot, this is a triumph, for Jarrett has successfully brought the organically evolving patterns of his sol
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21
Not so long ago pianists used to fit comfortably into bags. Some were known as romanticists, others as acerbic humorists, wailing time players, or sound-cluster specialists.
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23
Early Jarrett trio set-with Charlie Haden , bass and Paul Motian , drums--is unpretentious and a good showcase for Jarrett's lively early style.
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The 1992 CD reissue of the Keith Jarrett "American" Quartet's last recording session combines most of the contents of the LPs Byablue and Bop-Be, omitting "Yahllah" and "Konya" from the former and "P
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31
Keith Jarrett's first solo acoustic piano recording remains one of his best. At this point in late 1971, Jarrett had just started improvising completely freely.
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32
Music of overwhelming beauty continues to flow from pianist Keith Jarrett's fingers in an undiminished torrent.
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33
Not so long ago pianists used to fit comfortably into bags. Some were known as romanticists, others as acerbic humorists, wailing time players, or sound-cluster specialists.
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34
By the early '80s, Keith Jarrett was definitely under siege, accused of arrogance, singing along too loudly, rambling eclecticism and other heinous crimes.
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36
How do you sum up a massive catalog like Keith Jarrett's output for ECM -- which, as of the mid-1990s, numbered over 50 individual discs -- on one slim little CD? You can't.
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37
Thanks to chronic fatigue syndrome,Whisper Notis the first new recording by pianist Keith Jarrett in a couple of years.
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41
It is slowly becoming obvious that Keith Jarrett is the most important new keyboard stylist in jazz since McCoy Tyner and Bill Evans: He has the rhythm of Art Tatum and the touch of Bud Powell, the te
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49
At two marathon three-day recording sessions in December 1975 and October 1976, the finest group that pianist Keith Jarrett ever led (his quartet/quintet with tenor saxophonist Dewey Redman, bassist
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50
This live recording features pianist Keith Jarrett (also playing a bit of soprano), tenor saxophonist Dewey Redman, bassist Charlie Haden and drummer Paul Motian performing the 33-minute title cut an
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52
Originally an Impulse LP that surfaced on MCA as a straight reissue on CD, this fine recording features pianist Keith Jarrett's best regular group.
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53
With saxophonist Jan Garbarek and bassist Charlie Haden along for the ride, Keith Jarrett indulges in three slow, rambling, meditative, vaguely neo-classical concertos for piano and string orchestra.
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54
In other words, "New Dance..." This is the Garbarek quartet live in New York, doing their intellectual, neo-romantic thing.
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