[ECM1064/65ST] Keith Jarrett - The Köln Concert

"The Köln Concert is a recording released through ECM by the renowned jazz pianist Keith Jarrett, who performed solo improvisations at the Cologne Opera House in Köln/Cologne in 1975. The album is one of the best-selling jazz albums of all time, and the most sold solo album in jazz. The recording is in three parts, lasting 26 minutes, 34 minutes and 7 minutes, respectively. As the concert was originally published on LP, the second part was split into parts labeled "IIa" and "IIb". Part IIc actually is a 3rd part, the encore. The Köln Concert has been hailed as a masterpiece by critics, "flowing with human warmth." Quite a notable part of the sublimity of this concert is Jarrett's ability to produce seemingly limitless improvised material over a vamp of one or two chords for prolonged periods of time. For instance, in Part I, he spends almost 12 minutes vamping over the chords Am7 (A minor 7) to G major, sometimes in a slow, rubato feel, and other times in a bluesy, gospel rock feel. And for about the last 6 minutes of Part I, he vamps over an A major theme. Roughly the first 8 minutes of Part II A is a vamp over a D major groove with a repeated bass vamp in the left hand, and in Part II B, Jarrett improvises over an F# minor vamp for approximately the first 6 minutes. Since the release of The Köln Concert, Jarrett has been asked by pianists, students, musicologists and others, to publish the music. At first, he resisted such requests since, as he said, the music played was improvised "on a certain night and should go as quickly as it comes." However, this improvisation already existed in recording, and the transcription only represents the music, so he finally came around to publish an authorized edition, but recommended that every pianist who intended to play the concert should use the recording itself as having the final word. A transcription has also been published by Manuel Barrueco for classical guitar."



Info
Label: ECM Records
Catalog#: ECM 1064/65 ST
Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP
Country: Germany
Released: 1975
Genre: Jazz (Post Bop/Free Improvisation)
Quality: 320 kbps

01. Part I
02. Part II A
03. Part II B
04. Part II C

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[ECM1064/65ST] Keith Jarrett - The Köln Concert (Part 1 Megaupload)
[ECM1064/65ST] Keith Jarrett - The Köln Concert (Part 2 Megaupload)

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