Keith Jarrett Trio live in Paris. Recorded at Maison de la Radio, Studio 104, June 9, 1972, Radio France. The concert of Studio 104 of the Maison de Radio France, preserved in the archives of Ina, was never broadcast in its entirety. A summit of generosity, lyricism, bubbling creativity… Keith Jarrett also played soprano saxophone, as he did at the time. The repertoire is mostly drawn from Birth and Expectations, recorded the previous year. (Suite 1) 01. Coral 02. Forget Your Memories (And They’ll Remember You) 03. Take Me Back 04. Standing Outside 05. Track V 06. Piece For Ornette (Suite 2) 01. Common Mama 02. Moonchild 03. The Magician In You 04. Follow The Crooked Path 05. Expectations 06. Applause 07. The Circular Letter (For JK) Paul Motian on drums and Charlie Haden on bass. It also features Jarrett in not just a piano capacity, but also playing soprano Sax, wooden flute and even tambourine. Charlie Haden, a legendary jazz bassist and original member of the Ornette Coleman Quartet, died on July 11, 2014 after a prolonged battle with an undisclosed illness, according to his label, ECM. He was 76. Born in Shenandoah, Iowa in 1937 and raised on a farm, Haden helped to revolutionize double bass playing in jazz music as a member of saxophonist Coleman’s free jazz quartet in the late 1950s. A bout with polio at 15 damaged nerves in Haden’s vocal cords and ended his singing career, but he continued to play the bass. Haden also collaborated with artists like John Coltrane, Don Cherry, Alice Coltrane, Billy Higgins, Chet Baker and Pat Metheny, among many others. In 1967, Haden joined pianist Keith Jarrett’s ensemble, becoming a key member of the troupe before forming the band Old and New Dreams with Cherry. Haden also founded the Liberation Music Orchestra in 1969 with composer Carla Bley, which blended experimental jazz with political activism. Pianist Keith Jarrett unlikely to perform again after two strokes - Pair of strokes in 2018 have partially paralysed American musician, who can now only play with one hand. Keith Jarrett, the jazz and classical musician whose album The Köln Concert is one of the best-selling piano recordings in history, has announced that he is unlikely to perform again after two strokes. The 75-year-old told the New York Times that he suffered the strokes in February and May of 2018, and was left temporarily paralysed. “My left side is still partially paralysed. I’m able to try to walk with a cane, but it took a long time for that – took a year or more,” he said. He spent nearly two years in a nursing facility. He added: '“When I hear two-handed piano music, it’s very frustrating, in a physical way. If I even hear Schubert, or something played softly, that’s enough for me. Because I know that I couldn’t do that. And I’m not expected to recover that. The most I’m expected to recover in my left hand is possibly the ability to hold a cup in it.” His condition is likely to bring an illustrious career to an end. It began in 1964 after he moved to New York as a teenager, playing in jazz groups, first with Art Blakey and then, in the early 1970s, Miles Davis, Jack DeJohnette and others. He also began releasing solo material, with 1975’s double live album The Köln Concert bringing new audiences to jazz with its long-form, beautifully sentimental improvisations. It has sold nearly 4m copies. Jarrett has faced other health problems during his life. He was wearing a brace for back problems at the time of The Köln Concert, and announced in 1998 that he was suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome. Despite those ailments he has kept up a regular schedule of album releases throughout his life, often as live recordings and in a long relationship with the label ECM. His most recent release was 2018’s After the Fall, originally recorded in 1998. “I don’t know what my future is supposed to be,” he told the New York Times. “I don’t feel right now like I’m a pianist. That’s all I can say about that.” ( / Ben Beaumont-Thomas - 2020)
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