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| New Jarrett album due Munich label ECM will release in September two Jarrett's albums simultaneously. Keith Jarrett's "The Carnegie Hall Concert" is a double album documentation of the pianist's first U.S. solo concert in a decade, with the venue heightening the sense of occasion. Music featured is effectively a summary of styles Jarrett has traversed over the years. Two set-length suites of songs of many temperaments, composed in the moment, followed by no less than five ardently demanded encores - including "My Song", some boogie-woogie blues and the standard "Time On My Hands". Simultaneously, and in time for the 100th birthday of Dmitri Shostakovich, ECM New Series re-issues Jarrett's account of the great Russian composer's 24 Preludes and Fugues op. 87. Originally recorded in 1991 it counts amongst the most significant of Jarrett's interpretations of music from the 'classical' tradition. He began including Shostakovich pieces in his recitals in 1985, and his Shostakovich recording followed his acclaimed account of the two books of The Well-Tempered Clavier. Critical recations were extremeley positive. As The New York Times noted, "with this recording, Mr. Jarrett has staked an indisputable claim to distinction in the realm of classical music… Mr. Jarrett, having long since established himself in jazz, can now be called a classical pianist of the first rank." write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Jazz News :: home page |