Keith Jarrett - The Koln Concert
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[From The Album "The Koln Concert"]
[Koln, Germany - 01/24/75]
Anyone with a passing interest in Keith Jarrett knows the Koln Concert is his best selling album ever. [Album of the year, 1975 - Time Magazine] If you haven't yet experienced this recording, it's an improvised performance - he's just letting it happen, making it up as the piece progresses. Impressive technical abilities mix together with raw emotion to build improbable structures by force of will and ability alone. (As an aside, the Koln Concert has been transcribed for piano, can you believe that?) This is one of my all time favorite concerts - by anyone, anytime - so why sit on it. I'd like to know if anyone else is as emotionally transformed as I am when I hear this. I've played it enough times to know it note for note, and still remember just where I was my first time: I was walking across America (I did that once) and somewhere in California spent the night in the loft of a farmhouse that happened to have a record player and the Koln Concert. I didn't think such beauty was possible. The liner notes stated it was improvisation [whaaaa???]. I played it over and over 'til sunrise. Later I learned that once, when I was too young to remember, my Mother brought me along to a Keith Jarrett performance. She says he took the stage, sat down, leaned over the keyboard quietly until someone from the audience shouted something like, "D-Flat!" and Keith nodded and began to improvise. Thanks mom!
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Keith jarrett show's what utter genious and an abundance of technical prowess can produce.to think that this (koln concert) was totally improvisational,leaves me no other choice but to sell my piano and never play again.In jason,s comments he said there was an actual piano transcription to this.Where can i buy it?I would love to see the left-hand rythmm in the second movement put in to leger..I just don't thing it's possible...someone help me.
Play one Mr.Jarrett..I will listen to this forever.
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