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Music CD - Keith Jarrett: The Carnegie Hall Concert
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Music CD: The Carnegie Hall Concert
Artist: Keith Jarrett
List Price: $29.98
Our Price: $16.28
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Manufacturer: Ecm Records
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Tracks:
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1. Part 1
2. Part 2
3. Part 3
4. Part 4
5. Part 5
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0602498562246
Format: Live
Label: Ecm Records
Manufacturer: Ecm Records
Number Of Discs: 2
Publisher: Ecm Records
Release Date: 2006-09-26
Studio: Ecm Records
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: poser
Comment: On this album Jarrett thinks he's being avant-garde by aping music that hasn't been avant-garde in 40 years. Much of the music on this disc is nothing less than a sonic rip off of what Boulez and Berio were doing in the 60s, but without any of the highly developed and extremely sophisticated structural and developmental elements that make that music great. He doesn't even understand what he's quite lamely attempting to emulate. It's ersatz and quite embarrassing really, especially for someone of Jarrett's supposed musical sophistication.
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Summary: Tears
Comment: I have seen Keith live many times, and every time it is like a sacred pilgrimage. This is a brilliantly produced album, and I had tears rolling down my eyes with the first notes of the encores.
Every 50 or 100 years or so a musical giant brings music back to the rest of humanity. Keith is that giant, and brings blessings every time he reaches for the keys.
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Summary: So Great to Hear Mr Jarrett Again!
Comment: I've been listening to Keith Jarrett's music since the late 70s. He never fails to touch my heart. All those LPs I once bought on vinyl were eventually replaced on CD format - they are so nice without turntable rumble and static pops. Now I listen on my iPod too... Such lovely stuff.
SO - about those comments regarding applause. Here's one solution IF you are going to make mp3 files from these songs for your iPod.
You can trim the ends off (either end) of songs when you import them w/ iTunes. Here's how: Listen to the track once thru to identify the time when the last note occurs. Click the Reset button to put the "playhead" back to the start of the song. With that song selected in the iTunes pane (highlighted in blue, probably) Type "Command I" to open the "Song Info" dialog box, once there, select the 5th tabbed pane "Options" and look down to the box labeled "Stop Time" - check that button and enter time you want the mp3 recording to end. If you were attentive you can catch that second before that last note fades and the first applause begins. You can enter time values as small as tenths of seconds.
Enjoy.
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Summary: Same old Keith: Still a genius I just don't appreciate...
Comment: I will start by saying, as much as I like jazz piano and fancy myself becoming a "genuine" jazz pianist someday, I've just never quite understood KJ. Maybe he's too good for me, maybe his early stuff is too unapproachable and as such, I never "get" his later stuff. Or maybe it's something else, I don't know. And actually, I thought this recording was pretty good, as far as it goes. The sound is good, the music is challenging but interesting and vaguely compelling. I mean, I get the feeling it is worth pursuing its meaning, I just never quite "arrive" there. Unlike a number of other reviewers, I don't have much of a problem with the extended clapping (just push the "next" button on your iPod, CD player, computer), but as always, I wish the sound staff would mike the piano so that you can't hear KJ, or better yet, just get KJ to play and shut the heck up! Nonetheless, in what must surely seem a rather lukewarm review, I think this is a pretty decent piece of work, and I recommend it to piano (I hesitate to limit it to "jazz piano") enthusiasts and definitely to any Jarrett fans (but you've probably bought it already).
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Summary: Great concert, but idiotic production
Comment: Usually, jazz piano works grow on me with repeated listening. The much-lamented lengthy applause segments become more irritating over time. Among other flaws, they break the sequence of Jarrett's improvisations, so the listener (me) has to dampen down the aggravation level before being able to get back into the flow. I can sympathize with the impulse to let the CD audience feel the love, but we weren't there and we bought the CD for the music, and the tech folks are supposed to feature the music not the ego. Could someone post directions for trimming the files for iPods?
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Editorial Reviews:
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Since being afflicted in the late '90s with chronic fatigue syndrome, which kept him on the sidelines for several years, Keith Jarrett has had to reinvent himself as a performer. It's no slight on his classic live recitals of the past to suggest that has proven to be a fruitful development. In moving away from his long, inwardly streaming, lyrically sustained works and adopting a more easygoing episodic approach, he has become more accessible (and less windy) without sacrificing intensity or the freedom to draw upon all manner of styles including blues, gospel, and Americana. Recorded in 2005, The Carnegie Hall Concert features a 10-part piece that runs a gamut of moods and emotions. The enjoyable encore portion consists of three new originals, including a standard, "Time on My Hands," and a rare, enthusiastically received Jarrett oldie, "My Song," from the '70s. This is the 61-year-old artist's 25th solo album for ECM--most in a jazz genre but some classical, most on piano but some on organ and harpsichord and even wind instruments. It leaves you looking forward to number 26. --Lloyd Sachs
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