Keith Jarrett 40 years with ECM and a new album

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Got mail this morning and splurted out my cornflakes!!

Dear Newsletter Subscribers,

Today is the international release date for the new Keith Jarrett solo album "Rio". 40 years after the first collaboration of Keith Jarrett and Manfred Eicher - another outstanding live recording!

John Fordham states in his 5-star-review, printed today in The Guardian: "Rio represents Jarrett at his most exuberant. Though the spurted, staccato figures and stamping chords of Part 1 suggest an edgy set, the romantic harmonies and gentle trills of Part 2 and its churning, funky successor take the music to more open ground. Wistful ballads give way to township-jazz stomps like early Abdullah Ibrahim, Latin groovers to Cecil Tayloresque free jazz, rocking rural blues, love songs full of internal conversations. For old Jarrett fans and prospective new ones, it's a must."

Best wishes,
ECM Records








Keith Jarrett: Rio
(http://www.ecmrecords.com/Catalogue/ECM ... 198_99.php)

A fascinating document of Keith Jarrett’s solo concert in Rio de Janeiro on April 9, 2011. The pianist pulls a broad range of material from the ether: thoughtful/reflective pieces, abstract sound-structures, pieces that fairly vibrate with energy. The double album climaxes with a marvellous sequence of encores. 40 years ago Keith Jarrett recorded his first ECM disc, the solo piano “Facing You”. He has refined his approach to solo music many times since then, always finding new things to play. So it is here, in this engaging solo recording from Brazil.

ECMPlayer "Rio" (ECM 2198-99)
(http://player.ecmrecords.com/jarrett-rio)




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