Another Jarrett rant from last Friday night....
http://www.mercurynews.com/entertainment-headlines/ci_14720066?nclick_check=1
Review: Keith Jarrett keyboard genius puts on extended solo concert temper tantrum
By Richard Scheinin
rscheinin@mercurynews.com
Posted: 03/20/2010 06:36:37 PM PDT
Updated: 03/21/2010 03:42:43 AM PDT
SAN FRANCISCO — Keith Jarrett stepped onstage Friday at Davies Symphony Hall to thunderous and worshipful applause. Spot-lit, he made a deep emptying Buddha-bow toward his 2,700 fans in the sold-out hall, then sat down at the at the piano for a solo recital. The ritual was about to begin.
Quietly, he launched a free-form improvisation, flicking fingers at keys, building sounds from scratch, making them denser and rumblier, adding in right-handed squiggles like Jackson Pollack paint splatterings. Then someone coughed.
Uh-oh.