Keith Jarrett
A Biography
by Wolfgang Sandner, translated by Chris Jarrett
Hardback (Published)
(November 2020)
ISBN: 9781800500112
6.1 x 9.17 inches
Price: $29.95
In stock
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 ‘Koln 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, Handel, Bartok 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. Only few writers have come as close to Keith Jarrett as Wolfgang Sandner, who has not only been following Jarrett’s remarkable career from the nineteen-sixties onward, but has actually had the opportunity to visit him in his home in Oxford, New Jersey. Sandner squelches some legends here, such as the one concerning Jarrett’s alleged Hungarian Roma family background. For this biography, which is full of detailed musical analyses and cross-references to other artistic genres, Wolfgang Sandner has also collected new information about the origins of Jarrett’s paternal family from today’s Baden-Wurttemberg region in Germany – this, not least, thanks to the translator, Keith Jarrett’s youngest brother Chris. This English edition is a significantly extended and updated version of the German original as concerns important aspects of Keith Jarrett’s life and work.
- By (author) Wolfgang Sandner
- Translated by Chris Jarrett
"Superbly rendered, expanded and updated translation . . . retreads some of the pianist's formative milestones while stringing through them artful observations, interpretations and connections." --Grillo, Tyran, The New York City Jazz Record, May 2021 "Sandner is an erudite music critic and a long-time fan of a musician who, for all his talent, divides opinion. . . . Sandner is a trustworthy guide who takes the story right up to this year's belated release of The Budapest Concert from 2016 and the rumours of ill health. He is in no doubt that Jarrett is a genius and even if you think ECM has released too many albums and detect bouts of hubris and note-spinning he makes a strong case. Among Jarrett's several careers, Sandner believes the solo shows reveal his true greatness: 'The concerts are like visiting a workshop. . . Those who listen, watch and participate are fascinated by the number of masterpieces leaving the production line again and again.'" --Bungey, John, London Jazz News, November 7, 2020
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