Keith Jarrett Obituary

Advertisement



  keith jarrett obituary: Keith Jarrett Wolfgang Sandner, 2020 Keith Jarrett is one of the great pianists of our times. Before achieving worldwide fame for his solo improvisations, he had already collaborated with Art Blakey, Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis. His 'Köln Concert' album (1975) has now sold around four million copies and become the most successful solo recording in jazz history. His interpretations of the music of Bach, Händel, Bartók or Shostakovich, have also received much attention in later years. Jarrett is considered difficult and inaccessible, and has often abandoned the stage during his concerts due to restless audiences or disturbing photographers.Few writers have come as close to Keith Jarrett as Wolfgang Sandner, who has not only closely followed Jarrett's remarkable career from the 1960s, but has also had the opportunity to visit him in his home in the United States. For this biography, which is full of detailed musical analysis and cross-references to other artistic genres, Sandner has collected new information about Jarrett's family background, much of which is thanks to the translator, Keith Jarrett's youngest brother Chris. The book explores Jarrett's work with other musicians, in particular the members of his American and European Quartets and his Standards Trio, it charts the development of his solo concerts, and it also investigates his work in the classical sphere, as well as the highly original music he has created in his own home studio. It also covers his associations with his various record labels and producers, notably his unparalleled relationship with ECM and its founder Manfred Eicher. This English edition is a significantly extended and updated version of the German original.
  keith jarrett obituary: Keith Jarrett Ian Carr, 1992-03-22 Keith Jarrett is probably the most influential jazz pianist living today: his concerts have made him world famous. He was a child prodigy who had his first solo performance at the age of seven. In the sixties he played with the Jazz Messengers and then with the Charles Lloyd Quartet, touring Europe, Asia, and Russia. He played electric keyboards with Miles Davis at the beginning of the seventies, and went on to lead two different jazz groups—one American and one European. He straddles practically every form of twentieth century music—he has produced totally composed music, and has performed classical music as well as jazz. Jarrett has revolutionized the whole concept of what a solo pianist can do. And his albums such as Solo Concerts (at Lausanne and Bremen), Belonging, The Koln Concert, and My Song have gained him a worldwide following.Now, with Keith Jarrett: The Man and His Music, Ian Carr has written the definitive story of Jarrett's musical development and his personal journey. This is a revealing, fascinating, and enlightening account of one of the outstanding musicians of our age.
  keith jarrett obituary: Jazz and Death Walter van de Leur, 2023-05-12 Jazz and Death: Reception, Rituals, and Representations critically examines the myriad and complex interactions between jazz and death, from the New Orleans jazz funeral to jazz in heaven or hell, final recordings, jazz monuments, and the music’s own presumed death. It looks at how fans, critics, journalists, historians, writers, the media, and musicians have narrated, mythologized, and relayed those stories. What causes the fascination of the jazz world with its deaths? What does it say about how our culture views jazz and its practitioners? Is jazz somehow a fatal culture? The narratives surrounding jazz and death cast a light on how the music and its creators are perceived. Stories of jazz musicians typically bring up different tropes, ranging from the tragic, misunderstood genius to the notion that virtuosity somehow comes at a price. Many of these narratives tend to perpetuate the gendered and racialized stereotypes that have been part of jazz’s history. In the end, the ideas that encompass jazz and death help audiences find meaning in a complex musical practice and come to grips with the passing of their revered musical heroes -- and possibly with their own mortality.
  keith jarrett obituary: Looking for the Magic Mitchell Cohen, 2022-06-10 This cultural-historical remix offers a fresh perspective on how one record company, Arista Records, reflected its place and time: New York in the 1970s and early 1980s. Through interviews with dozens of artists and executives, music journalist Mitchell Cohen goes inside the business of making and marketing music during this vibrant and diverse period. Under Clive Davis, rock, pop, punk, jazz, R&B, disco, cabaret and Broadway were all represented on Arista. It sounded like the city it was at the geographical center of. From its inception as a new entity built on the pop and soul foundation of Bell Records, to groundbreaking artists like Gil Scott-Heron and Patti Smith, to revitalized legends like the Kinks and Aretha Franklin, up to its launching of its biggest star, Whitney Houston, Arista Records’ story has never been told like this. Looking for the Magic covers the wide scope of the label’s roster: its giant pop successes (Barry Manilow), its dedication to cutting-edge jazz (Anthony Braxton) and its embracing of rock royalty (Lou Reed, the Grateful Dead). Looking for the Magic goes behind the scenes, to the Kinks’ backstage fights, Lou Reed’s on-stage diatribes and to CBGB, Kenny’s Castaway and the Continental Baths. We find out how “Because the Night” made its way from Bruce Springsteen to Patti Smith; how Barry Manilow went from obscurity to stardom; how MTV ushered in a second British Invasion for bands like the Thompson Twins and Haircut 100; and how Arista formed alliances with adventurous labels like Stiff and Ze Records. ­
  keith jarrett obituary: Newsmakers 96 Louise Mooney and Geri J. Speace Collins (eds), 1996
  keith jarrett obituary: The Annual Obituary , 1992
  keith jarrett obituary: The Washington Post , 1978
  keith jarrett obituary: Newsmakers. 1992 Cumulation Newsmakers, 1992
  keith jarrett obituary: Current Biography Yearbook , 1999
  keith jarrett obituary: The Last Castle Denise Kiernan, 2017-09-26 A New York Times bestseller with an engaging narrative and array of detail” (The Wall Street Journal), the “intimate and sweeping” (Raleigh News & Observer) untold, true story behind the Biltmore Estate—the largest, grandest private residence in North America, which has seen more than 120 years of history pass by its front door. The story of Biltmore spans World Wars, the Jazz Age, the Depression, and generations of the famous Vanderbilt family, and features a captivating cast of real-life characters including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Wolfe, Teddy Roosevelt, John Singer Sargent, James Whistler, Henry James, and Edith Wharton. Orphaned at a young age, Edith Stuyvesant Dresser claimed lineage from one of New York’s best known families. She grew up in Newport and Paris, and her engagement and marriage to George Vanderbilt was one of the most watched events of Gilded Age society. But none of this prepared her to be mistress of Biltmore House. Before their marriage, the wealthy and bookish Vanderbilt had dedicated his life to creating a spectacular European-style estate on 125,000 acres of North Carolina wilderness. He summoned the famous landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted to tame the grounds, collaborated with celebrated architect Richard Morris Hunt to build a 175,000-square-foot chateau, filled it with priceless art and antiques, and erected a charming village beyond the gates. Newlywed Edith was now mistress of an estate nearly three times the size of Washington, DC and benefactress of the village and surrounding rural area. When fortunes shifted and changing times threatened her family, her home, and her community, it was up to Edith to save Biltmore—and secure the future of the region and her husband’s legacy. This is the fascinating, “soaring and gorgeous” (Karen Abbott) story of how the largest house in America flourished, faltered, and ultimately endured to this day.
  keith jarrett obituary: Newsmakers 1996 Sub Part 4 Cum Newsmakers, 1997
  keith jarrett obituary: The White Peril Omo Moses, 2025-01-21 From the son of legendary civil rights organizer Robert P. Moses: a brilliant, unflinching memoir about becoming Black in America that interweaves voices from 3 generations of the Moses family Omo Moses has written an epic reaffirmation of Black diasporic life and a clarion call for justice. The White Peril is destined to be read and cherished.” —Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction recipient and author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao In The White Peril, Omo Moses deftly interweaves his own life story with excerpts from both his great-grandfather's sermons and the writings of his father, the civil rights activist Bob Moses. The result is a powerful chorus of voices that spans 3 generations of an African American family, all shining a light on the Black experience, all calling fiercely for racial justice. Omo was born in 1972 in Tanzania, where his parents had fled to escape targeted harassment by the US government. He did not encounter white supremacy until the family moved back to America when he was 4. Here, he learned what it meant to be Black. He came of age in a Black enclave of Cambridge, Massachusetts, became a passionate basketball player, lived in the shadow of his father’s Civil Rights work but did not feel like a part of it until his college basketball career came to an unceremonious end. Unsure what to do next, he took up his father’s offer to go with him to Mississippi and teach math to Algebra Project students. Omo didn’t know it yet, but it was among those young people that he would find his purpose. This book is at once a coming-of-age story, a multigenerational family memoir, an epic father-son road trip, a searing account of the Black male experience, and a work that powerfully revives Rev. Moses’s demand for liberation.
  keith jarrett obituary: Play the Way You Feel Kevin Whitehead, 2020-04-01 Jazz stories have been entwined with cinema since the inception of jazz film genre in the 1920s, giving us origin tales and biopics, spectacles and low-budget quickies, comedies, musicals, and dramas, and stories of improvisers and composers at work. And the jazz film has seen a resurgence in recent years--from biopics like Miles Ahead and HBO's Bessie, to dramas Whiplash and La La Land. In Play the Way You Feel, author and jazz critic Kevin Whitehead offers a comprehensive guide to these films and other media from the perspective of the music itself. Spanning 93 years of film history, the book looks closely at movies, cartoons, and a few TV shows that tell jazz stories, from early talkies to modern times, with an eye to narrative conventions and common story points. Examining the ways historical films have painted a clear picture of the past or overtly distorted history, Play the Way You Feel serves up capsule discussions of sundry topics including Duke Ellington's social life at the Cotton Club, avant-garde musical practices in 1930s vaudeville, and Martin Scorsese's improvisatory method on the set of New York, New York. Throughout the book, Whitehead brings the same analytical bent and concise, witty language listeners know from his jazz segments on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross. He investigates well-known songs, traces the development of the stock jazz film ending, and offers fresh, often revisionist takes on works by such directors as Howard Hawks, John Cassavetes, Shirley Clarke, Francis Ford Coppola, Clint Eastwood, Spike Lee, Robert Altman, Woody Allen and Damien Chazelle. In all, Play the Way You Feel is a feast for film-genre fanatics and movie-watching jazz enthusiasts.
  keith jarrett obituary: Four Lives in the Bebop Business A. B. Spellman, 1985 Score
  keith jarrett obituary: Jet , 1990-11-05 The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.
  keith jarrett obituary: Newspaper Index, Washington Post , 1977
  keith jarrett obituary: Current Biography Yearbook Charles Moritz, 1992
  keith jarrett obituary: Newsmakers (1999). Newsmakers, 2000
  keith jarrett obituary: My New Roots Sarah Britton, 2015-03-31 At long last, Sarah Britton, called the “queen bee of the health blogs” by Bon Appétit, reveals 100 gorgeous, all-new plant-based recipes in her debut cookbook, inspired by her wildly popular blog. Every month, half a million readers—vegetarians, vegans, paleo followers, and gluten-free gourmets alike—flock to Sarah’s adaptable and accessible recipes that make powerfully healthy ingredients simply irresistible. My New Roots is the ultimate guide to revitalizing one’s health and palate, one delicious recipe at a time: no fad diets or gimmicks here. Whether readers are newcomers to natural foods or are already devotees, they will discover how easy it is to eat healthfully and happily when whole foods and plants are at the center of every plate.
  keith jarrett obituary: Newsmakers Newsmakers, 1999
  keith jarrett obituary: Biography Index Bea Joseph, 1991 A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines.
  keith jarrett obituary: Newsmakers Gale Group, 2004-11
  keith jarrett obituary: Newsmakers Sub Cumulation Newsmakers, 2003-08
  keith jarrett obituary: Miles Davis Ian Carr, 2009-04-30 This exhaustively researched, revised edition of Ian Carr's classic biography throws new light on Davis' life and career: from the early days in New York with Charlie Parker; to the Birth of Cool; through his drug addiction in the early 1950s and the years of extraordinary achievements (1954-1960), during which he signed with Columbia and collaborated with such unequaled talents as John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Wynton Kelly and Cannonball Adderly. Carr also explores Davis' dark, reclusive period (1975-1980), offering firsthand accounts of his descent into addiction, as well as his dramatic return to life and music. Carr has talked with the people who knew Miles and his music best including Bill Evans, Joe Zawinul, Keith Jarrett, and Jack DeJohnette, and has conducted interviews with Ron Carter, Max Roach, John Scofield and others.
  keith jarrett obituary: Coltrane Ben Ratliff, 2008-10-28 John Coltrane left an indelible mark on the world, but what was the essence of his achievement that makes him so prized forty years after his death? What were the factors that helped Coltrane become who he was? And what would a John Coltrane look like now--or are we looking for the wrong signs? In this deftly written, riveting study, New York Times jazz critic Ben Ratliff answers these questions and examines the life of Coltrane, the acclaimed band leader and deeply spiritual man who changed the face of jazz music. Ratliff places jazz among other art forms and within the turbulence of American social history, and he places Coltrane not just among jazz musicians but among the greatest American artists.
  keith jarrett obituary: Newsmakers , 2006
  keith jarrett obituary: Playing Changes Nate Chinen, 2019-07-23 One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, GQ, Billboard, JazzTimes In jazz parlance, “playing changes” refers to an improviser’s resourceful path through a chord progression. In this definitive guide to the jazz of our time, leading critic Nate Chinen boldly expands on that idea, taking us through the key changes, concepts, events, and people that have shaped jazz since the turn of the century—from Wayne Shorter and Henry Threadgill to Kamasi Washington and Esperanza Spalding; from the phrase “America’s classical music” to an explosion of new ideas and approaches; from claims of jazz’s demise to the living, breathing scene that exerts influence on mass culture, hip-hop, and R&B. Grounded in authority and brimming with style, packed with essential album lists and listening recommendations, Playing Changes takes the measure of this exhilarating moment—and the shimmering possibilities to come.
  keith jarrett obituary: Newsmakers Laura Avery, 2005-11 Provides timely and informative profiles of the world's most interesting people.
  keith jarrett obituary: CURRENT CONTENTS , 1994
  keith jarrett obituary: Bell & Howell Newspaper Index to the San Francisco Chronicle Bell & Howell Co. Indexing Center, 1985
  keith jarrett obituary: The Instrumentalist , 2000
  keith jarrett obituary: Henry Cow Benjamin Piekut, 2019-09-27 In its open improvisations, lapidary lyrics, errant melodies, and relentless pursuit of spontaneity, the British experimental band Henry Cow pushed rock music to its limits. Its rotating personnel, sprung from rock, free jazz, and orchestral worlds, synthesized a distinct sound that troubled genre lines, and with this musical diversity came a mixed politics, including Maoism, communism, feminism, and Italian Marxism. In Henry Cow: The World Is a Problem Benjamin Piekut tells the band’s story—from its founding in Cambridge in 1968 and later affiliation with Virgin Records to its demise ten years later—and analyzes its varied efforts to link aesthetics with politics. Drawing on ninety interviews with Henry Cow musicians and crew, letters, notebooks, scores, journals, and meeting notes, Piekut traces the group’s pursuit of a political and musical collectivism, offering up its history as but one example of the vernacular avant-garde that emerged in the decades after World War II. Henry Cow’s story resonates far beyond its inimitable music; it speaks to the avant-garde’s unpredictable potential to transform the world.
  keith jarrett obituary: Newsmakers' Sub Thomson Gale, 2003-02 Newsmakers provide informative profiles of the world's most interesting people.
  keith jarrett obituary: Bell & Howell Newspaper Index to the Los Angeles Times , 1985
  keith jarrett obituary: Times Remembered, 15 Joe La Barbera, Charles Levin, 2021-09-15 In the late 1970s legendary pianist Bill Evans was at the peak of his career. He revolutionized the jazz trio (bass, piano, drums) by giving each part equal emphasis in what jazz historian Ted Gioia called a telepathic level of interplay. It was an ideal opportunity for a sideman, and after auditioning in 1978, Joe La Barbera was ecstatic when he was offered the drum chair, completing the trio with Evans and bassist Marc Johnson. In Times Remembered, La Barbera and co-author Charles Levin provide an intimate fly-on-the-wall peek into Evans's life, critical recording sessions, and behind-the-scenes anecdotes of life on the road. Joe regales the trio's magical connection, a group that quickly gelled to play music on the deepest and purest level imaginable. He also watches his dream gig disappear, a casualty of Evans's historical drug abuse when the pianist dies in a New York hospital emergency room in 1980. But La Barbera tells this story with love and respect, free of judgment, showing Evans's humanity and uncanny ability to transcend physical weakness and deliver first-rate performances at nearly every show.
  keith jarrett obituary: The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones Stanley Booth, Greil Marcus, 2014-10-01 Stanley Booth, a member of the Rolling Stones' inner circle, met the band just a few months before Brian Jones drowned in a swimming pool in 1968. He lived with them throughout their 1969 tour across the United States, staying up all night together listening to blues, talking about music, ingesting drugs, and consorting with groupies. His thrilling account culminates with their final concert at Altamont Speedway—a nightmare of beating, stabbing, and killing that would signal the end of a generation's dreams of peace and freedom. But while this book renders in fine detail the entire history of the Stones, paying special attention to the tragedy of Brian Jones, it is about much more than a writer and a rock band. It has been called—by Harold Brodkey and Robert Stone, among others—the best book ever written about the 1960s. In Booth's afterword, he finally explains why it took him 15 years to write the book, relating an astonishing story of drugs, jails, and disasters. Updated to include a foreword by Greil Marcus, this 30th anniversary edition is for Rolling Stones fans everywhere.
  keith jarrett obituary: The Guardian Index , 2003
  keith jarrett obituary: Newsmakers 93 Newsmakers, 1993
  keith jarrett obituary: Barcelona Dreaming Rupert Thomson, 2021-06-01 New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice Three novellas are “cleverly linked together” in this “beguiling love letter to the great city” set before the financial crash of 2008 (Condé Nast Traveller). “Ironic, observant, alert . . . its atmosphere [is] invoked with intimate knowledge and a matchless sense of place.” —Colm Tóibín Barcelona Dreaming is narrated by an English woman who runs a gift shop, an alcoholic jazz pianist, and a translator tormented by unrequited love—all of whose lives will be changed forever. Underpinning the novel, and casting a long shadow, is a crime committed against a young Moroccan immigrant. Exploring themes of addiction, racism, celebrity, immigration, and self-delusion, and fueled by a longing for the unattainable and a nostalgia for what is about to be lost, Barcelona Dreaming is a love letter to one of the world’s most beautiful cities and a powerful and poignant fable for our uncertain times.
  keith jarrett obituary: Thinking in Jazz Paul F. Berliner, 2009-10-05 A landmark in jazz studies, Thinking in Jazz reveals as never before how musicians, both individually and collectively, learn to improvise. Chronicling leading musicians from their first encounters with jazz to the development of a unique improvisatory voice, Paul Berliner documents the lifetime of preparation that lies behind the skilled improviser's every idea. The product of more than fifteen years of immersion in the jazz world, Thinking in Jazz combines participant observation with detailed musicological analysis, the author's experience as a jazz trumpeter, interpretations of published material by scholars and performers, and, above all, original data from interviews with more than fifty professional musicians: bassists George Duvivier and Rufus Reid; drummers Max Roach, Ronald Shannon Jackson, and Akira Tana; guitarist Emily Remler; pianists Tommy Flanagan and Barry Harris; saxophonists Lou Donaldson, Lee Konitz, and James Moody; trombonist Curtis Fuller; trumpeters Doc Cheatham, Art Farmer, Wynton Marsalis, and Red Rodney; vocalists Carmen Lundy and Vea Williams; and others. Together, the interviews provide insight into the production of jazz by great artists like Betty Carter, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Coleman Hawkins, and Charlie Parker. Thinking in Jazz overflows with musical examples from the 1920s to the present, including original transcriptions (keyed to commercial recordings) of collective improvisations by Miles Davis's and John Coltrane's groups. These transcriptions provide additional insight into the structure and creativity of jazz improvisation and represent a remarkable resource for jazz musicians as well as students and educators. Berliner explores the alternative ways—aural, visual, kinetic, verbal, emotional, theoretical, associative—in which these performers conceptualize their music and describes the delicate interplay of soloist and ensemble in collective improvisation. Berliner's skillful integration of data concerning musical development, the rigorous practice and thought artists devote to jazz outside of performance, and the complexities of composing in the moment leads to a new understanding of jazz improvisation as a language, an aesthetic, and a tradition. This unprecedented journey to the heart of the jazz tradition will fascinate and enlighten musicians, musicologists, and jazz fans alike.
Kith for the New York Rangers
Introducing a special collection created with the New York Rangers, comprising performance apparel, custom outerwear, loungewear, accessories, and equipment. Highlighted by …

Kith Spring 2025 | Kith
Kith Monday Program; Kith Origins; Kith Summer 2025; Kith for adidas Football Spring 2025; Kith for the New York Knicks; Kith for Peanuts 75th Anniversary

Kith for adidas Football Spring 2025 Lookbook
Apr 16, 2025 · Kith for adidas Football Spring 2025 Lookbook April 16, 2025 Coming Soon Kith partnered with adidas Football to present a collection that redefines the intersection of sport …

KITH SEOUL
kith가 asics와의 파트너십을 재개합니다. jog 100s와 gel-nunobiki™의 협업 모델을 새롭게 선보이고, gel-nimbus™와 gel-kayano® 모델은 새로운 컬러로 출시됩니다.

Locations – Kith
Kith Monday Program; Kith Origins; Kith Summer 2025; Kith for adidas Football Spring 2025; Kith for the New York Knicks; Kith for Peanuts 75th Anniversary

Men's Shoes, Sneakers, & Slides - Kith
Men's Shoes: Sneakers, Boots, Sandals & Footwear | Kith

Shop Womens - Kith
Kith Monday Program; Kith Origins; Kith Summer 2025; Kith for adidas Football Spring 2025; Kith for the New York Knicks; Kith for Peanuts 75th Anniversary

Ronnie Fieg & New Balance ABZORB 2010 – Kith
May 16, 2025 · Ronnie Fieg & New Balance ABZORB 2010 May 16, 2025 Coming Soon For the latest chapter of their longstanding partnership, Ronnie Fieg and New Balance unveil the …

Kidrobot Keith Haring Dunny Mini Series – Kith
Continuing our celebration of inspirational artists of the 20th century, Kidrobot brings art to life with the first collectible 3-inch tall Dunny mini figure series featuring the work of Keith Haring.

Kith for On Spring 2025
Kith for On Spring 2025 February 19, 2025 Coming Soon Kith reprised its partnership with On to debut the Cloudzone, showcasing exclusive co-branding that pays homage to Queens, New …

Kith for the New York Rangers
Introducing a special collection created with the New York Rangers, comprising performance apparel, custom outerwear, loungewear, accessories, and equipment. Highlighted by …

Kith Spring 2025 | Kith
Kith Monday Program; Kith Origins; Kith Summer 2025; Kith for adidas Football Spring 2025; Kith for the New York Knicks; Kith for Peanuts 75th Anniversary

Kith for adidas Football Spring 2025 Lookbook
Apr 16, 2025 · Kith for adidas Football Spring 2025 Lookbook April 16, 2025 Coming Soon Kith partnered with adidas Football to present a collection that redefines the intersection of sport …

KITH SEOUL
kith가 asics와의 파트너십을 재개합니다. jog 100s와 gel-nunobiki™의 협업 모델을 새롭게 선보이고, gel-nimbus™와 gel-kayano® 모델은 새로운 컬러로 출시됩니다.

Locations – Kith
Kith Monday Program; Kith Origins; Kith Summer 2025; Kith for adidas Football Spring 2025; Kith for the New York Knicks; Kith for Peanuts 75th Anniversary

Men's Shoes, Sneakers, & Slides - Kith
Men's Shoes: Sneakers, Boots, Sandals & Footwear | Kith

Shop Womens - Kith
Kith Monday Program; Kith Origins; Kith Summer 2025; Kith for adidas Football Spring 2025; Kith for the New York Knicks; Kith for Peanuts 75th Anniversary

Ronnie Fieg & New Balance ABZORB 2010 – Kith
May 16, 2025 · Ronnie Fieg & New Balance ABZORB 2010 May 16, 2025 Coming Soon For the latest chapter of their longstanding partnership, Ronnie Fieg and New Balance unveil the …

Kidrobot Keith Haring Dunny Mini Series – Kith
Continuing our celebration of inspirational artists of the 20th century, Kidrobot brings art to life with the first collectible 3-inch tall Dunny mini figure series featuring the work of Keith Haring.

Kith for On Spring 2025
Kith for On Spring 2025 February 19, 2025 Coming Soon Kith reprised its partnership with On to debut the Cloudzone, showcasing exclusive co-branding that pays homage to Queens, New …