Creation (album)

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Creation
Keith Jarrett's live album

Publication
(s)

2015

Label (s) ECM

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

jazz

Title (number)

9

running time

72:30

occupation

production

Keith Jarrett, Manfred Eicher ( Executive Producer )

chronology
Last Dance
(2014) 		Creation Barber / Bartók / Jarrett
(2015)

Creation is a jazz album by pianist Keith Jarrett that was released by ECM in 2015. It contains nine recordings of pieces that were created during his improvised solo concerts and recorded in Tokyo, Toronto, Paris and Rome in 2014.

background

In contrast to Jarrett's earlier live albums, which depict the improvisational process of the documented solo concerts as a whole, this time the pianist selected key moments from five performances. The album was released on May 8, 2015 on the occasion of Keith Jarrett's 70th birthday on ECM.

Track list

The Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto where Jarrett performed on June 25, 2014
  • Keith Jarrett: Creation (ECM 2450)
  1. Part I (Toronto, Roy Thomson Hall , June 25, 2014) - 8:17
  2. Part II (Tokyo, Kioi Hall, May 9, 2014) - 7:40
  3. Part III (Paris, Salle Pleyel , 4 July 2014) - 6:59
  4. Part IV (Rome, Auditorium Parco della Musica , 11 July 2014) - 7:33
  5. Part V (Tokyo, Kioi Hall, 9 May 2014) - 7:13
  6. Part VI (Tokyo, Orchard Hall, May 6, 2014) - 9:25
  7. Part VII (Rome, Auditorium Parco della Musica, 11 July 2014) - 8:17
  8. Part VIII (Rome, Auditorium Parco della Musica, 11 July 2014) - 8:36
  9. Part IX (Tokyo, Orchard Hall, May 6, 2014) - 8:30

reception

According to John Kelman, who reviewed the album on All About Jazz , the solo piano recordings on Creation are recordings of the rank of early live albums made before Jarrett's CFS illness . Jarrett's concept of putting together a "new whole" from recordings of various appearances is an unused venture for Jarrett. After his solo appearances had gotten something predictable in recent years, Creation ultimately avoided all predictable constructs with a program that was largely dark and brooding, based heavily on chordal constructs and simple melodies, and thus represented the absolute antithesis of an overt virtuosity. Jarrett only lets his virtuosity shine through for brief moments, for example at the beginning of Part V , in which he plays one of the most poignant, lyrical passages on the album. Even if he is no longer able to perform in the long form in real time, with the selection of the pieces he has created a courageous, seething, beautiful and absolutely harmonious whole.

For Ueli Bernays ( Neue Zürcher Zeitung ), recent recordings such as Rio (2011) or the new album Creation show that Jarrett repeatedly varies and refines his solo playing.

According to the French newspaper Le Figaro , Jarrett created the quintessence of his art with the suite-like album Creation : harmonious complexity without ever losing touch with the melody, an eulogy of slowness and silence. Keith Jarrett has found meditative, profound and very moving music in his play today and achieved a great achievement as the producer of this album.

In his review of the album in Jazzthing , Wolf Kampmann points out that the selected pieces all seem like “classical studies ”. “So concentrated in the structure, so clearly and almost graphically contoured ”, Jarrett “was rarely heard in his solo improvisations. The fervor that is often said of him has been completely given up in favor of formal rigor. "

Colin Fleming sees parallels in Jarrett's pieces with Erik Satie's Gymnopédies , as well as a connection to the simultaneous publication of Jarrett's recordings with music by Samuel Barber ( Piano Concerto op. 38 ) and Béla Bartók ( Piano Concerto No. 3 ).

success

The album reached the top of the German jazz charts for one month in May 2015 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.jazzecho.de/keith-jarrett/news-und-rezensions/news/article:232564/keith-jarrett-wird-70
  2. ↑ http://www.discogs.com/Keith-Jarrett-Creation/release/6983747
  3. ↑ http://www.allaboutjazz.com/keith-jarrett-creation-by-john-kelman.php
  4. ↑ Ueli Bernays: Open for Eternity in NZZ (2015)
  5. ↑ http://www.lefigaro.fr/musique/2015/05/07/03006-20150507ARTFIG00306-keith-jarret-sort-deux-albums-pour-ses-70-ans.php
  6. ↑ W. Kampmann, Jazzthing 109 (2015), p. 120
  7. ^ Review of Colin Fleming's album in JazzTimes
  8. ↑ GfK Jazz Charts May 2015 . ( Memento from June 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) jazzecho.de, accessed on May 13, 2020.