Munich 2016

From the opening ‘Part I’, a 16-minute storm of thundering polyrhythms and powerful cadences, the muse certainly seemed to have descended on Jarrett that evening. Each piece seems to flash by... — Jazzwise, February 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 6th Dec 2019
Catalogue No: 0829260
Label: ECM

Jazzwise

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February 2020

Disc 1

1. Part I

2. Part II

3. Part III

4. Part IV

5. Part V

6. Part VI

7. Part VII

Disc 2

1. Part VIII

2. Part IX

3. Part X

4. Part XI

5. Part XII

6. Answer Me, My Love

7. It's a Lonesome Old Town

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A solo concert from Keith Jarrett - recorded at Munich’s Philharmonic Hall on July 16, 2016, on the last night of a European tour - finds the great improvising pianist at a peak of invention.

Creating a spontaneous suite of forms in the moment with the assurance of a master builder - interspersing touches of the blues and folksong lyricism between pieces of polyrhythmic and harmonic complexity - he delivers one of his very finest performances. An attentive and appreciative audience hangs on every note, every nuance, and is rewarded with some tender encores including a magical version of “It’s A Lonesome Old Town”.

There is, still, nothing else like a Keith Jarrett solo concert. “Through a series of brilliant solo performances and recordings that demonstrate his utterly spontaneous creativity,” the Polar Music Prize committee noted a few years ago, “Keith Jarrett has simultaneously lifted piano improvisation as an art form to new, unimaginable heights.”

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February 2020

From the opening ‘Part I’, a 16-minute storm of thundering polyrhythms and powerful cadences, the muse certainly seemed to have descended on Jarrett that evening. Each piece seems to flash by brimming with allusions – 20th century European composers, Shostakovich (a favourite) and maybe Hindemith?

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