A solo concert from Keith Jarrett – recorded at Munich’s Philharmonie on July 16, 2016, on the last night of a European tour – finds the great improvising pianist at a peak of invention. Creating a spontaneous suite of forms in the moment with the assurance of a master builder – interspersing touches of the blues and folksong lyricism between pieces of polyrhythmic and harmonic complexity – he delivers one of his very finest performances. An attentive and appreciative audience hangs on every note, every nuance, and is rewarded with some tender interpretative encores: the perennial favourite “Over The Rainbow”, “It’s A Lonesome Old Town”, and Gerhard Winkler’s “Answer Me, My Love”, made famous internationally by Nat King Cole, but long known to German listeners under its original title, “Mütterlein.”
- Keith Jarrett Piano
RECORDED
July 2016, Gasteig Philharmonie, Munich
