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In his early teens, he developed a strong interest in the contemporary jazz scene a Dave Brubeck performance was an early inspiration. In Keuth Jarrett teens, as a student at Emmaus High School in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, Jarrett learned jazz and quickly became proficient in it.

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Encouraged especially by his mother, Keith Jarrett took intensive classical piano lessons with a series of teachers, including Eleanor Sokoloff of the Curtis Institute. Keith Jarrett gave his first formal piano recital at the age of seven, playing works by composers including Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, and Saint-Saëns, and ending with two of his own compositions.

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He began piano lessons just before his third birthday, and at age five he appeared on a TV talent program hosted by the swing bandleader Paul Whiteman. Keith Jarrett possesses absolute pitch, and he displayed prodigious musical talents as a young child.

He grew up in suburban Allentown with significant early exposure to music. Keith Jarrett was born Pennsylvania to a mother of Austrian and Hungarian descent and a father of either French or Scotch-Irish descent. The sheet music transcriptions book is available from our Library.If you like this plays you can listen similar transcriptions of Brad Mehldau, Bill Evans, Dave Brubeck and Hiromi Uehara, Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson. The album contains eight jazz standards, two traditional songs, and, uncharacteristically for Jarrett, only one improvisation (“Meditation”, the second half of track six). In a sense, this pared-down, iconoclastic approach is classic Jarrett: Simple yet radical, no one “just” plays the music in jazz these days there “must” always be theme and variation. Why he hasn’t recorded one before, having such a tradition of solo-piano recordings, is a mystery. Yes, this is Jarrett’s first solo “standards” album. “I Loves You Porgy” and “Something To Remember You By” carry such moments, as Jarrett seems to overwork the material, suggesting a stiffness that need not be there.

Consequently, a plainness and stateliness is heard with some of these recordings. Missing are some of those chords that have become trademark Jarrett. That sense of aloneness, with hints of melancholy, pervades such songs as the traditional “Shenandoah,” here given a gospel, hymn-like quality, or the album’s highlight, “Blame It In My Youth,” beautifully embellished as it is by Jarrett’s own “Meditation” coda.Įxcept for Ellington’s “I’ve Got It Bad, And That Ain’t Good” and his “Meditation,” there is no real improvising here, only intimate brushes with melody.

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Best Sheet Music download from our Library. Jarrett has played this piece numerous times mainly as an encore in his solo concerts. One of the pieces included was the well known standard Over the Rainbow by Harold Arlen written for the Wizard of Oz. What keeps everything “indoors” is the voice of the piano itself, having been recorded in Jarrett’s somewhat arid-sounding home studio, leaving the listener feeling somewhat alone. In 1997, Keith Jarrett played a solo concert at Teatro alla Scala which was recorded live and released as La Scala. (Jarrett’s characteristic vocalizations play no part here.) In fact, The Melody At Night, With You suggests lullaby music, with a starry night overhead (“My Wild Irish Rose”). The music is exquisite, unnerving and disarming, as the virtuoso bypasses flourish, instead choosing to speak plainly. Not surprisingly, the playing on this solo-piano recording is subdued, but does not lack for earnestness, passion or focus. How else to explain the nature of this project? The Melody At Night, With You is Jarrett’s return to form after some serious scrapes with chronic fatigue syndrome (see DB Sept.

Follow album’s title must come from pianist Keith Jarrett’s longstanding love affair with standards.

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