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I was never a real big fan of Keith Jarrett. I was with my friend, and he bought Keith Jarret, Gary Peacock, and Jack Dejohnette, Up For It. A relatively new release from ECM records recorded live overseas. I abosultely fell in love with this trio. Jack has always been a musical drummer, but I was never in tune with his recordings with Jarrett. Now I'm making it my mission to find as many Keith Jarrett Trio albums as I can find. The album Up For It is highly recommended.

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the chances of you not getting a hard time from someone for not seeking out an older jarrett thread and tacking this on are very slim.

you should check out some of the stuff where they DONT play standards too, like on "changeless".

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Get Inside Out and Always Let Me Go right away.

I didn't like Always Let Me Go that much. (Haven't heard Inside Out.) Out of the albums I've heard, my favorites are the Blue Note box and The Cure. The parts of Up for It that I've heard are excellent.

Guy

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I like the stuff on Vortex and a few early solo piano recs... once those possibilities were exhausted for me, I closed up and moved on, but now without keeping those few LPs.

Quite a few of my compadres are very anti-Jarrett and anti-Chick, but I find a lot of value in certain of their recordings.

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That's the only Keith Jarrett Trio recording I have that I like. I have a number of their standards recordings and never listen to any of them.

the chances of you not getting a hard time from someone for not seeking out an older jarrett thread and tacking this on are very slim.

you should check out some of the stuff where they DONT play standards too, like on "changeless".

Alexander Hawkins Explorer

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:bwallace2:

When I saw the thread title I was very afraid. I thought there might be 3 of them. :)

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(I was looking for the one with the smilie rolling around with laughter).

At the risk of being inflammatory,

Quite a few of my compadres are very anti-Jarrett and anti-Chick, but I find a lot of value in certain of their recordings

...I should be so lucky. I've never really warmed to either player, and am absolutely sickened (and dismayed) by the idolatry of these players by my contemporaries who are at music colleges.

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...I should be so lucky. I've never really warmed to either player, and am absolutely sickened (and dismayed) by the idolatry of these players by my contemporaries who are at music colleges.

What exactly is wrong with either player? I happen to think they are both very talented improvisers

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...I should be so lucky. I've never really warmed to either player, and am absolutely sickened (and dismayed) by the idolatry of these players by my contemporaries who are at music colleges.

What exactly is wrong with either player? I happen to think they are both very talented improvisers

Overhype.

Guy

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overhype I can understand. But how does that take away from their obvious talent?

No - believe me, when it comes to 'changes' gigs, life would be a lot easier if I could get around them like either player!

There are sort of two limbs to my complaint:

1) I don't really sypathise with the conservative career paths of either player. I find the playing of both pretty (and increasingly) generic. To my ears, they play what they perceive piano trios should sound like, rather than where the music wants to go (I fully accept that this is subjective, and that others will disagree!) This conservatism seems to me to be the antithesis of what our music is about.

2) The second limb is probably not at all a criticism of the players themselves, so much as one of their countless and slavish imitators. One Bill Evans I can take (and enjoy); one Herbie I can take; one Jarrett, one Corea, etc. But when you go to a music school to learn to sound like these guys? When you set out to learn 'nice' jazz piano 'painting by numbers' style? That I can do without! That's my disillusionment - and again, I realise that it's not necessarily a criticism of the players themselves. It's more an unfortunate, irrational if real, conflagration of the issues by myself...

I should say that Jarrett's attitude is irritating, but I won't make too many judgements on that score. I daresay there are countless players whose playing I love and respect greatly who are assholes.

I also agree that overhype is irritating, but largely otherwise irrelevant.

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Does Jarrett like to hear the applause on his own recordings? They seem to go on and on and on and on and on and on.

I bet he could add another tune to most of his CDs if he just cut out the applause. Is this an ego thing?

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